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Hi all,
I'm struggling because I can't get some things working on my laptop (which is well enough spec-ed, and elements of what I am trying to do have worked separately elsewhere before). I'm trying to see if I can get in to using computer based amp modelling to play at home, and have bought Bias. Aside from the disappointment that you can't run it seemingly as a standalone programme, and that it doesn't show up in Cubase vst list, the biggest problem I'm having is with Reaper which I have downloaded as a trial to see if that might work and how I get on with it. I hoped to be able to load up a track, whack on Bias and have a good playing sesson and a play with the different customising options.
I'm getting no sound out - I've tried using a Zoom G3 and an M Audo Fast Track, all drivers have been freshly installed but still nothing. The input seems to be recognising that I'm playing stuff but there's no sound
What on earth am I doing wrong?
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On the channel (track 1 on the screenshot) where your guitar is going:
1) Click the big circular dull-red colour button just to the top of where it says "1" at the bottom of the track channel.
2) Click the sort of triangular symbol (like a play symbol) which is just below the M button and S button of that channel.
Get it to say something that sounds useful. I can't remember what those buttons are called (and I'm too cosy to move and have a look) but that should do the trick.
Would I have any right to a refund on Bias actually?
Oh, and right click the big circle thing too, iirc there are some options on there and you check an audio one rather than a midi one.
I use Reaper regularly but this is all set up now so I never think to do it!
Can you get any sound out of the M-Audio usb device - mp3 playback for example ?
(Been burned by M-Audio before, and got the cheapest USB Focusrite Scarlett instead)
Feedback
Well I've got it working with the Zoom G3 now but doesn't sound great
There's no sound at all through the M Audio so I've chucked it back in the wardrobe, waste of space that thing is. When I first got it a while back it did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoVV99w7og
Thanks but I'm afraid not, Bias is already loaded as you say and whilst I do hear it when using the G3, it does not sound great. With the M Audio piece of junk it makes no sound whatsoever.
It's ok, It's just affirmed my previous opinion that I hated computer amp stuff (Had a Line 6 GX give up on it all as well and have now spent a total of 6 hours over two hours trying to get computers to work!!
http://m-audio.com/kb/article/1662
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The first set up attempt is the only one documented (the youtube vid above).
Not to worry. Ive taken it as a lesson learned
Just a thought on the sound quality - your laptop probably has a chip-based sound system. Good for net browsing and low quality music reproduction but poor for sound recording. Make sure you disable it. Check that your M-Audio card is the main soundcard for Windows.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
It's (the m audio) definitely set as the audio soundcard, set up the way it says and indeed exactly the same ways as the g3 and Line 6 gx before it, which all worked.
Would a Vst host be a better idea maybe, if i can get the zoom g3 working better as a "dry" interface
C: >program files(86) >steinberg >cubase 5 >vstplugins [or similar].
Put the VST in this directory and then open Cubase and go to:
Devices>plugin information>update
This will rescan your VSTs.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Hmm oh right ok, thanks. Yes I probably downloaded the 64 bit version as my laptop is 64 bit. I'll give that a try as I am very much used to Cubase so it's easy, Reaper is all new and seemed to hurt my eyes even looking at stuff (masses of grey and very small buttons etc)
Thank you ever so much for your help, I know I sound pretty mardy but it's just been a continuing source of frustration ever since I first got Pod Farm!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Reaper seemed horrid because it was new and I didn't know where anything was and it wasn't Sonar! But it sort of worked (yours will too -- it's very stable). And I had no other choice so I had to learn it for the time being. By the time the Sonar issue was sorted, some two months later, I didn't want to go back to it. I had learned Reaper and I had a skin on it that looked like Sonar funnily enough. Now I kind of like the default look.