No audio output from traction

[alrobichaud]

Hi everyone. I feel like I am a very knowledgeable when it comes to configuring computers and software but this has me stumped. I have the UMC22 with a mic connected to the XLR input and an electric guitar connected to the second input. I have my audio interface setup as ASIO in Waveform 8. The software does show both of my inputs and I able to record audio from both. Well, I haven't heard it yet but I can see the waveform that is created when I speak or play the guitar on the two tracks.

When I hit the 'test' button on the audio setup page, I do not hear the test tone. When I switch my audio device to 'realtekAISO', I can hear the test tone but the software recognizes my mic as being on both inputs and I lose the guitar. When using 'realtekASIO', I still have no audio output in the software but I do hear a test tone.

What am I missing? I have read about setting up your audio output on the track but I really need someone to explain how to do this.

Thank you.

[Peter Widdicombe]

1. Under Settings -> Audio devices, which audio device is set to the "default wave output"?
It should be an active one. Do you want it going to the computer audio output, or back to the realTEK.

2. For stereo devices, you can treat it as a stereo device, or consider it 2 separate mono audio interfaces.
On that same page, click on the realtek input, and a panel opens up at the bottom. Uncheck the
"Treat as Stereo Channel Pair", and you'll see it as 2 separate audio devices when you select input for a track. You see the same choice when you select track inputs - select the input as 1+2, and the panel at the bottom allows you to unselect. When you do, input is no longer selected; but you now have 1 and 2 separately to choose from, which can be assigned to separate tracks.

Same method for going back to stereo on the realtek or other input - select one, then make it a stereo pair.

I've only got a stereo input myself, but wanted to record 2 singers at the same time. On the (external) mixer, panned one hard left, the other hard right. Treat the input device as 2 mono inputs, and record both at once to separate tracks. Or I could have recorded as a stereo track, and used tracktion to split stereo to 2 mono after the fact. Lots of choices...

[alrobichaud]

Thanks for the reply, Peter. Your question 'which audio device is set to the default wave output' finally solved this for me. In audio devices, there was no default wave output because that channel was disabled. I didn't realize that I had 'only show enabled devices' selected. Because of that, I did not see the missing channels. My output was disabled which is why the software did not output any sound.

Thanks so much for the help! This was really starting to bother me.

Have a look at the uploaded screenshot and you can compare with the above screen shot. The disabled outputs were missing. This seems like a really silly thing to want to hide that info on the setup screen.