Monitoring While Recording

I use a mixer ahead of the interface with the audio from the daw looping back through the 2 track inputs.
And monitor that mixer. 0 latency no matter what the buff.

Appreciate the advice for future set-ups, guys. For now, I wish I could figure out what got messed up.
 
I have tried direct monitoring with the V-Studio and could never make it do anything. I follow the directions and push the buttons, but nothing changes.

do you have this issue with a new project? sometimes projects get corrupted and weird anomalies like this happen.  what setup do you have where you hear the reverb, is it on a buss? the track? lastly do you normally use the live input function to have no latency(don't know if that unit has this function) or do you normally use input monitoring from the track and leave the hardware input muted?

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I use a mixer ahead of the interface with the audio from the daw looping back through the 2 track inputs.
And monitor that mixer. 0 latency no matter what the buff.

In this setup how is you daw getting the mic signal to record?

Hearing the reverb says to me that the vocal is successfully getting into cakewalk.

To troubleshoot, i would disable all fx (e key).

If you can hear the vocal prior to starting record, great! Trace the path from studio track to bus. Note the fx and consider disabling them after hitting e to re-enable all.

If you cannot hear the vocal prior to record after disabling fx, go to the audio track, route it directly to your interface. Ensure input echo is on. Click record enable.

Still can't hear it? Check the input gain on the interface. Do you need phantom power enabled on this Mic?

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Once you can hear the vocal, try recording and see if you can hear it. Mute the reverb bus if necessary. Solo the vocal track. Is it working?

If yes prior to record and no while recording, then i understand your frustration, konradh.

Maybe look at your sound on sound vs overwrite setting?

After recording for a bit without hearing it, hit stop and play it back. Can you hear it?

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It sounds like the act of recording is causing the issue. That makes me wonder whether the vocal is set as the input on more than one audio track. One is record enabled and one is not?

Check quick that the track itself is routed to something that hits the mains. The send to the reverb is making it all the way, but sounds like the actual track is not. Been a while to remember X1, but the CbB advice above would be worth checking out.

One of my tricks for trying to "find" a track that just won't allow itself to be heard no matter WTF I try is to look for something else (a track, bus or folder) that accidentally got solo'd. Basically go through my project and UNsolo everything.
 
I know, it's weird, you can hear it playback, so what I'm saying doesn't seem likely, but still, nothing else you've tried is working, right?
 
Maybe a bus? One hint is that your reverb send is working. It sounds like you're using a send bus to do your reverb, so there might be something over in Bus Land.
 
I believe this one dates back to the invention of the "solo" button on physical consoles. :-)
 
I'll second what brundlefly suggested about trying to route the track directly to the output. Put me in the camp who suspects routing or the wrong combination of mute(s) and solo(s) rather than a corrupted project.
 
Also, I don't monitor through a separate outboard mixer or via my interface. I use Sends and create Cue Mix buses, which lets me set up and store as many custom cue mixes as I wish without having to touch the main faders.
 
It requires a bit of sleuthing to find plug-ins that induce latency and therefore should be switched out while tracking, but Cakewalk (and yes, once you finish this session look into installing Cakewalk by BandLab) has a button that will bypass all of the effects in a project.

TTo answer the question about how you can hear signals that are present both in a cue mixer and the interface. You need to be able to split the signal. 
There are many ways to set this up. 
Mike pre amps often have 2 outputs, one might be an XLR and the other a 1/4", so one gos to the interface the second to the mixer.
Many mixers have direct record output for each channel so thois is a easy one.
You can even double mike instruments, one mike records the other is just for the cue mixer. 
DI boxes always have 2 outputs so Bass or acoustic guitar is easy to splt.
I even use my Boss Tuner as it has 2 outputs. 
 
But getting back to Konrad, You should really figure the direct monitoring system of the V studio. I would think it should work and might be something very simple you've missed. 
There will always be latency when NOT using direct monitoring and the performance will be off time. 
I would never engage the input echo when recording audio. Even if it's only 7 ms it bugs me,