Hey there, I am new to Cubase, I am using Cubase 13.0.41, All my device audio is controlled with “voicemeter potato”. I’m getting signal into the DAW, but not on the audio track unless I turned on the monitoring. I have checked all the audio i/o settings. Can’t figure out the problem. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong!
Welcome, @shafinshanv !
There are different monitor modes, available in the Edit > Preferences > VST > Auto Monitoring dropdown list.
Check also again the Voicemeter Potato configuration. IMO, this kind of device is rather a duplicate, and I would get rid of it, when using Cubase, as it will uselessly complicate the audio signal flow on a daily basis, but well… Could you post the same picture, but with the track inspector visible ?
EDIT 3 : normally (which means, if Voicemeter Potato doesn’t go in the way…) and if you monitor via Cubase, either the While Record-Enabled or the Tapemachine Style values should work, for the Auto Monitoring setting, in your case.
Thank you for your response.
I have been using reaper, studio one previously. Also I used Cubase 10 previously when I started the audio editing at the first place. I uninstalled Cubase due to some stability issues. At that time, I was still a beginner to Cubase. The voicemeter configuration was perfectly working with all the previous DAWs. It’s just the newly installed Cubase 13. I have still reaper installed on the PC and there is no issues at all.
One thing I forgot to mention previously, I can record on the track, the problem is the meter not showing up.
[*****Now, why am I using the voice meter! Simply I don’t know any alternative way to work with Cubase, OBS, Zoom, All together. When I looked up on Youtube, I find it a good way to use voice meter and it was until now. Considering I can record and audio signal is coming into Cubase, I still hope it is not voice meter that causes this.*]
I’m attaching the screenshot while recording, with track inspector, thanks again for your time.
I’m almost certain that’s because your Auto Monitoring setting (see my previous post) is set to Manual : I get exactly the same result when using it while recording, and that’s one of the reasons why I am always using the Tapemachine Style option for the Auto Monitoring setting.
EDIT - Beside this, I see a little problem in your screenshot : why using a stereo bus for input, as you are recording an audio signal in a mono track, and Could you make a screenshot of your Studio > Audio Connections > Inputs panel ?
EDIT 2 - Forget my previous edit : it’s not essential…
For me, maybe I’m missing something re Auto Monitoring setup I should check into… But if I want to hear the input to a track while in play or pause (i.e. while NOT actively Recording), I would use the little speaker “Monitor” button to the right of the Record /Arm button on the track, so it changes from white to orange. This lets you hear what you are sending to the track, rather than what’s already recorded (or not) on the track.
Yep, but…
…from his statement, I reckon that precisely, he wants to avoid the use of it, this, while having meters showing the incoming audio signal level.
That is exactly how Cubase is designed to work.
An audio track can either playback its content or monitor its input signal.
If you would not like to have to chose between these two you could instead look at the Input Bus, that is connected to the specific audio track, for monitoring.
To make Input Busses visible in the track list you have to use a little trick; activate the global project automation write (W button) and then deactivate it and also the Read.
Alternatively, without displaying the Input Bus, you have the choice for different monitoring behaviour in Cubase.
You’ll find your options in the Preferences dialog, section “VST”.
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I have already tried changing the monitoring type to Tapemachine style. I get the same result (I mean, not showing the meter).
As I can record without any problem, it is adjustable. But, you know, it’s doesn’t feel good when we change from what we used to.
Thanks for your response, It works perfectly. I’m on manual monitoring settings and I can see the input signal on the bus channel. But, still not on the audio track.
When you say, this is how Cubase designed to work, I wonder is it a recent update or something! Because as I said previously, when I had Cubase 10 and 11, I was getting the signal on the audio track without the need for input bus (I mean, looking onto the input bus).
As I said: If you use only the audio track you must chose whether to meter the input signal or the playback signal. This is done via the Monitoring switch (and the setting in the Preferences). You cannot have both at the same time.
No, it is not a recent change. It’s been like this for a while. I don’t know when Cubase introduced the input bus system but before you connected an audio track’s input directly to the audio interface. The monitoring was the same.
Here is a picture of Cubase SX 3 from >15 years ago, it also had the monitoring button
If you are using Cubase for monitoring and still have ‘dead’ meters with the Tapemachine Style as Auto Monitoring option, there is something faulty in your preferences files.
So, could you try to launch Cubase in safe mode, with the Disable program preferences option ? This, to see how Cubase behaves with a default configuration.
Okay, thanks for your time. I really appreciate it.
Tried it, nothing changed. Let me try to reinstall the software. I really appreciate your responses. Thanks a lot.