UR 242 - no sound in my laptop

Steinberg Hardware UR Series
1

Hi

I’ve just bought a UR242 and I’m trying to use it to connect my turntable to my laptop to convert some vinyl to mp3. I followed the download/installation guides and have connected the UR242 to my stereo amp effectively as a Tape Monitor. That part is definitely working - the volume increases when I turn the Output knob up and I can hear the output when I plug earphones into the socket so turntable to UR242 is fine…

However… when I open the dspMixFx_UR242 Application I can see the monitor levels jumping and dropping in sync with the music, but there is no sound whatsoever in my laptop when I plug my headphones in. I installed Cubase LE, set the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO as the audio driver, and there’s no sound going in. I’ve tried with Audacity as well but get the same result.
It’s like my laptop doesn’t recognise that the lead in is for sound. It recognises that it’s there but produces no sound…

I have tried every combination of the UR242 USB lead and the in-built Realtek Speakers being the Input and Output and nothing changes the fact that I can’t hear what’s going in from my turntable.
I have checked and the latest drivers have been installed.

My laptop is a Lonovo V15 G2 ALC
Processor - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics 2.10 GHz
Windows 11 Home version 22H2

I’m by no means an expert with these things but I like think I’m not completely handless either, but this has stumped, and frustrated me.

I’d very much appreciate any help or guidance with this.

Thanks
Chris

3

Hi
Thanks for your reply.

So, if I’m reading that right, I should set the UR242 as my input default but Realtek as my default output, yeah?
I presume when I load Cubase I still select the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO as the audio driver…??
And this will allow sound to play into Cubase and thus allow me to record that sound…yes??

Cheers
Chris

6

To answer the 2nd part, yes Audacity does allow you to select input and output separately… I tried that to no avail… I’ve attempeted to attach a photo. The input is selected as Line (Steinberg U242), output as Realtek… as you can (hopefully) see the Wave recorded is a flat line…

20230307_135815
20230307_1358151920×1093 135 KB

8

Not sure I follow your question. Do you mean did I try to select the ASIO driver as an input in Audacity??

10

Hey. I meant to say I finally sussed it…kind of… I can get sound from lines 1&2 into Cubase but not from 3&4… but it works for what I need it to do so that’ll do me for now.
Thank you for all your help, it’s very much appreciated.
Cheers
Chris