Cakewalk HS and Toneport

blipndub · #1 09-10-2006, 11:23 PM

I'm using both of these packages and when going in it sounds great, tracks fine, but I'm having a hard time splitting a mic input and a guitar input into two seperate tracks in Cakewalk Homestudio. Anyone have some experience?

TL5 · #2 09-11-2006, 08:23 AM

Can you clarify a question I have?

Was it recorded as two seperate tracks to begin with?
IE: trk 1 = guitar, trk 2 =vocal

Cakewalk Homestudio will record 2tracks at once, that can either be one stereo track with left and right information OR two mono tracks.
If you're using a typical soundcard, in order to get two tracks in Cakewalk you will have to record two mono tracks and pan your guitar all the way to one side and your vocal all the way to the other. OR, you could make seperate passes.

blipndub · #3 09-11-2006, 10:08 AM

I have the toneport set up as the soundcard so I can monitor without any significant latency problems (record in and audio out from CW).

What I'm trying to do is have two seperate tracks of guitar left and a right track of vocal so I can record a scratch track. In Cakewalk I get an option as as input for "Toneport Left, Right or Stereo" but I'm not gettting any stereo seperation from the Toneport. I'ts like I don't know how to control the output signal from the Toneport to have a seperate left and right out.

In my drivers I'm only seeing one instance of Toneport and I'm wondering if I should have a 1 or a 2 or an A/B coming from the Toneport.

TL5 · #4 09-11-2006, 10:28 AM

I don't use a Toneport, so I'm no help on the drivers issue at all.

If I understand correctly:
In Cakewalk your choices are:
1) Toneport Left
2) Toneport right
3) Toneport stereo

Again, If I'm understanding correctly: You could select Toneport left on a single mono track in Cakewalk.

On another track you would select Toneport Right.

That would allow you to record the Toneport as two seperate mono tracks, 1left, the other right.

Personally, I would choose option 3 and record the Toneport as a single stereo track. That would make any editing easier.

That brings up the question of the microphone that you mentioned earlier. Do you plan to record that after the Toneport track or at the same time?

blipndub · #5 09-11-2006, 12:49 PM

Yes, that's a good summery and yes I can select TP right and left, it just doesn't work.

Tonight I'm going to try to split a stereo signal coming from the TP into Cakewalk by panning the seperate tracks in CW and see if that makes a difference. My concern is that when I had both a guitar and a mic going through the Toneport i wasn't recieving the mic signal in the stereo output, that's probably the root of the problem and more Toneport related than CW related.

I'll update progress tonight.

Thanks for your responses.

blipndub · #6 09-11-2006, 06:52 PM

Okay I figured it out.

In HS in the Audio options I had to select the ASIO drivers for the Toneport, after doing that I was able to select an input from Toneport A left 1-2 and Toneport B 3 - 4, which was just what it needed. Yay!

TL5 · #7 09-12-2006, 09:06 AM

Awesome, I looked at the Toneport info on the Line6 site.
It seems to be a nice little gadget.

It's wonderful when the stuff works.

blipndub · #8 09-12-2006, 03:28 PM

In general I like the Toneport quite a bit. It has some of the annoying characteristics of cheap digital equipment such as "ghost" distortion at the end of a signal. And a tendency for that classic Line 6 "something's just not right" tendencny. But both of these things are remidied with tinkering and tweaking.

The mic preamps are really awesome and it does a great job with bass and vocals. Guitars sometimes just lack that "air" sound that is so hard to emulate.