This will identify the following problems:
1. After loading a project, trying to use MAX module is impossible. Once you click the max know your mouse pointer disappears (goes behind the program window).
2. When recording, the input volumes sound good, however, during recording the volume of the actual recording is almost Nill.
3. After saving a project, when I open it up there are strange cracks and pops during playing. The entire project sounds horrible.
Okay, the first one I list is just a heads up. There is an easy fix if this happens to you. Close the project, reload it, and instead of trying to change the MAX setting, right click over it and remove the module. When you reload the module the problem is gone.
2. I've baffled over this one for hours. I use a 3000.00 computer system. I won't go into details about it's specs, you only need to know I have massive resources and I am running the latest updated Windows 7. (I hate windows 10). I use a Line 6 Guitar Port with the Gearbox to run my guitar into my computer. The first thing I noticed when I loaded up my gearbox was that although I could hear everything through my Guitar Port headphones, I was not getting an input signal on the channel I selected to record.
I'm familiar with Cakewalk, I used Guitar Tracks for years. So, I puzzled over this no input until I finally decided to try to record something and see what happened. Imagine my surprise when I pressed the red button (which looks just like the record button on older cakewalk) and learned that the red button on the track itself is the ARM button and not the record button. So, now I had input signal to my meters, however even pushing the slider all the way to the top I couldn't make my input signal very strong. I had great input from the Gearbox program, my guitar track output strength was good and it sounded GREAT both in the headphones and over the speaker system. I mean, REALLY great. I was excited to record.
However, during recording I noticed that the graph for the track had tiny little bumps instead of pretty waveforms. It was recording at such low volume that even after muting the accompanying tracks I could barely hear the new recorded track during playback.
I have played with changing the input sources from left to right to stereo guitar port. I've messed with the track out put sources. I've opened and reloaded the preferences and the devices. I've gone to the tutorial some 8 times and I've watched every video I can watch. Nothing is helping me with solving this problem. So I gave up for the night after about 8 hours of attempts to record this track.
The next day I opened the project and wanted to listen to it and during play back I was getting these NASTY snaps and pops and the playback of the other tracks (not the guitar track I was trying to record) were skipping and breaking with this strange static.
Now I know that the problem is not in my settings but the problem is with the program.
(When I experienced problem 1 with the disappearing mouse pointer I called tech support and he logged in remotely and was completely mystified by the problem, said he'd never seen it before). So, it's my experience that problems 2 and 3 are going to be related to problem one.
Now, it's time to brainstorm. Can anyone walk me through setting this recording track using guitar port/gearbox, how I would set up my inputs and outputs for Creator 7? Let's make sure I have my settings exactly right and then see if my problem is solved. In this way, we can identify if there is in fact a serious bug in this software. Thank you.