How can i get a sound on headphone on my laptop win11, cubase12

Cubase
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I’ve been trying to get sound from my headphones for about 2 days. Besides generic asio, I also installed asioforall for trial purposes. There is sound coming from the laptop speakers but not from the headphones. Also, I can hear audio from YouTube while in that state.

i’m using win11 cubase 12

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Under STUDIO > STUDIO SETUP > (click on the AUDIO SYSTEM) whichever sound card you are using… could be ASIO4ALL or realtek … after clicking on it Look in the window section to the right and check the PORTS. See if your sound card has 2 out puts one may be for the computer speakers, the other may be the headphone output. Make certain that both are check if necessary.

Save and close. Go to STUDIO > AUDIO CONNECTIONS > OUTPUTS tab. IS the headphone output listed as an output that is connected (or given a friendly bus name)? You may have to type all this in.

Once you have told Cubase about the secondary output (if necessary), you can go to your mixer and the main out and create a SEND to the other output. Turn it on and you should be good to go.

I cannot recommend enough that you should get an external audio interface when working with Windows. The audio chipsets in windows laptops may be the exact same as in a Mac but no laptop manufacturer is going to write a decent ASIO driver for the internal chipsets in windows machines and Asio4All is not always that great. I highly recommend Focusrite. Good products, good drivers, low cost. But for just getting started, try to spend between 140 and 200 US dollars for an audio interface if in the US.

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I installed the same program on another PC with the same operating system. It works smoothly. Realtek does not appear in the card selection. The most I can hear is coming from the laptop. There is still no sound in the headphones

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i have focusrite :slight_smile: but i can’t use in my office.

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Disable the speakers in device manager?

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Now I can hear sound from the headphones, but it sounds muddy and slow. I had installed asioall4.

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I haven’t been able to get any sound with ASIO for about a year now. I don’t have enough knowledge to apply the solutions suggested in my post. Sometimes I feel like I don’t understand what I read. I ended up solving the issue by using FL Studio ASIO within Cubase. I made quite a few songs this way—until I started working on piano mixing.

VSTs like Grandeur and Noir sound like they’ve been rendered directly without any EQ adjustments, based on what I’ve seen on YouTube. However, I have to make significant adjustments, and I feel like I have no choice but to do so. Someone suggested I check my audio interface settings. When I decided to review my settings again, I came back to the post I wrote last year. Chances are, I’ll be here crying about it again next year. :frowning:

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I think I may have found the solution to the ‘issue’…!

I have used Cubase SX for quite some years, new to this forum though.
But now that it is hard to get SX3 working on Win10 and when it finally works… it is not stable :frowning:
So now I am trailing 14 Pro before investing :wink:

And indeed I run into the same thing where I could not get the audio from Cubase going out to the headphones automatically when i plug them in…

  1. Open up the Realtek Audio Console:
    Press Windows-(flag)-key and start typing Realtek and it should pop-up soon enough.
  2. In the lower left corner: click (something like) Advanced device settings.
  3. An option called Audio Director comes up, that gives you two options.:
  • Classic
  • Multi-stream
    Select Classic… done!!
    This is what it used to :slight_smile:

Cheers!