Audio Input not recognized in SONAR

I searched the FAQ and the forum topics for this problem, and didn't find anything, though I can't imagine nobody has asked this question. So if a thread exists, sorry for the inconvenience.

As a new owner of SONAR 6, I tried to record yesterday. I borrowed my friend's USB mic, and plugged it in. I tested it with Sound Recorder, and it works fine. The computer recognizes it, yadda yadda yadda. But when I open SONAR, and I go to select an audio input, I see my sound card listed and a USB device listed....but it doesn't let me select them. It looks like this:



When I mouse-over either of those two inputs, it should let me select the device, no? It has those black > arrows, so some options should pop out. But nothing does. So I basically can't select any recording inputs.

Thanks for the help.

go into options>audio click on the drivers tab, enable your in and out drivers. click ok. close the program, re-open, should be there...

also be sure to boot your computer with your audio devices on

hope that helps-
Ev

www.evanandnature.com

"Hey! What happens when you arm the track for record? "

I haven't even tried recording, because it doesn't think I have any inputs for recording. So that's not the issue.

I'll try all of your other suggestions soon, though. Thanks.

When I arm a track for recording (by pressing the R button) I get the same exact situation as in the picture I posted in my first post. I don't notice any difference.

When I go to Options>Audio>Drivers, all 3 things there are now selected. 2 Inputs (my soundcard and the mic) and 1 Output (my soundcard).

I also often get an error message that says "You have not selected any MIDI outputs. This means you may not hear any MIDI tracks playback." If I choose "Choose MIDI Outputs Now", the only option there is Microsoft MIDI Mapper, and if I select that and press OK, it just gives me the error again, "You have not selected...." I don't know if this is relevant or not, but it's damn annoying.


Also, I just tried importing a wav file into the default Audio 1 track, in a new project. When I pressed play, it wouldn't play. Like it didn't have an output or something. So blah.

I just have my SoundMAX sound card, came standard with my laptop model. When I had SONAR 5, I had no problems like this. I just don't get why it doesn't let me select an input.

I'll also note that last night, I reinstalled SONAR 6 with my USB mic plugged in (and my sound card was obviously in). When it finished installing, it said it had to scan my I/O devices (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) and it found both my sound card and the USB device, and tested what frequencies they could handle. So it knows about them, but as you can see from the picture in my original post, I just can't actually select anything.

Hm, none of those appeared to work (on the ASIO option, it didn't even display any I/O devices at all).

ORIGINAL: futurejp

I searched the FAQ and the forum topics for this problem, and didn't find anything, though I can't imagine nobody has asked this question. So if a thread exists, sorry for the inconvenience.

As a new owner of SONAR 6, I tried to record yesterday. I borrowed my friend's USB mic, and plugged it in. I tested it with Sound Recorder, and it works fine. The computer recognizes it, yadda yadda yadda. But when I open SONAR, and I go to select an audio input, I see my sound card listed and a USB device listed....but it doesn't let me select them. It looks like this:



When I mouse-over either of those two inputs, it should let me select the device, no? It has those black > arrows, so some options should pop out. But nothing does. So I basically can't select any recording inputs.

Thanks for the help.

I don't have S6, so i need to ask, what is the RD button that is turned on in the screenshot?

Brian