What I am trying to do is go from my Mustang amp USB to computer, but Cakewalk (what a weird name) is not recognizing it, it only sees Realtex speakers. Do I have to have an audio interface($169) , and if so, are there alternatives, like Audacity?
It ought to work. Here are instructions from Cakewalk’s website:
… and they suggest changing driver modes if that doesn’t work:
If you do go with an interface, you needn’t spend $169, I got one of these for $49 and it works pretty well. I am using it with Audacity.
“The American English term “cakewalk” was used as early as 1863 to indicate something that is very easy or effortless…”
Well that’s interesting - I’ve had a Scarlett on my wish list for the last six months, but this essentially does the same thing I think? I’m also looking to plug a Mustang amp into my PC, plus a mic…looks like this has the necessary pre-amp and connectivity?
I am plugging my guitar/bass directly into the box, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t work.
I should disclose that I have never been able to get the second input to work. Not an issue for me, I never want to record more than one track at a time. But it conceivably could be, if you wanted to record, says, vocals and guitar at the same time.
Either I am senile or this is the least intuitve program I have ever worked with. I was able to get it to recognize my amp, it was just a driver setting, thanks. And figured out how to record a guitar track, hit red record button to “arm” the track, hit the other red button to record it. Brilliant design there LOL. Two record buttons! I do like the metronome when you hit the second record button and the option to turn it off. HIt + to add a second track. Record that. I’ll be damned it I can figure out how to combine the 2 tracks into 1
I’ve tried saving the project, exporting, save as, save as other. I’ve saved as mp3, wave. VLC media player, Windows, JRiver Media Center, none recognize the file .
Hmmmmm… works for me.
Are both the tracks unmuted ?
Try audacity … it’s much simpler for basic recording (and it’s free) - you can always export it all to Cakewalk later for mixing/mastering etc if you want.
I use cubase so may not be the same but in it you to select the range of material - ie start and end points in time/bars, as well as ensuring that all the tracks you want to export together are ‘live’ ie unmuted. In cubase you then click export and it gives you options of format, destination of exported file and action - such as upload to soundcloud, insert in new track etc.
The ‘arm’ track to record is valuable when you have multiple tracks otherwise you would be recording on all tracks every time…
Good luck, have fun!
MiM
What you need is a “DI box”. You can plug a guitar or bass into it, and there will be an XLR output you can then plug into your USB interface or wherever you would connect a microphone.
I don’t know this stuff, so is that different from what someone posted earlier in the thread, or different from this?
You are correct. According to the specs, the interface in your link features a 1.5-megaohm instrument input that you can plug a guitar into, as well as a separate microphone input. So, if you had that interface, there would be no need to purchase a separate box to adapt your guitar to a microphone or line input.