Technical help? USB Microphone woes. :( - RESOLVED

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm also new to Cakewalk. I've been doing MIDI for a while, but I was using other programs prior to this. I've been trying to get everything set up, but I've been having some difficulty. 

First, let me start by saying that I have SONAR Artist, which I'm running on a Windows 7 Pro OS. 
I tried looking in the Cakewalk Help, but I can't seem to find anything specific to Artist. The few files that I did find dealing with microphones talked about connecting a standard mic or a 1/4" mic to a processor. I don't have that. I have a Blue Yeti USB microphone. I know that the computer will see the microphone because I can record with it in other programs. But, when I make a new audio track in Sonar and I set the input device to the Blue Yeti (which SONAR sees and populates in the drop-down menu), when I press record in the track settings I get nothing. No sound is captured from the microphone. I'm totally stumped. Any help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks! 

Thanks Mudgel. I had actually already browsed through the help file and I didn't see anything useful in there. The button that you describe on the top control bar is a moot point in my case as my project only contains 1 track. Whether I'm trying to record 4 tracks simultaneously via the top record button or a single track the result is the same; SONAR recognizes that I have the USB mic plugged in, but is not detecting any sound from it. I will go through the help file again, but I didn't see anything in there dealing with USB microphones specifically. 

Is it the Yeti or Yeti Pro?
According to Blue, the Yeti requires no special drivers to be used, which is not good. That usually means you have to use the MME driver mode instead of WDM or ASIO. What driver mode are you using in SONAR?
The Yeti Pro requires special drivers, which can be downloaded from Blue.
The Yeti is not compatible with USB 3. It is compatible with USB 1.1 and 2. Do you know which kind of ports you have?

57Gregy
Is it the Yeti or Yeti Pro?
According to Blue, the Yeti requires no special drivers to be used, which is not good. That usually means you have to use the MME driver mode instead of WDM or ASIO. What driver mode are you using in SONAR?
The Yeti Pro requires special drivers, which can be downloaded from Blue.
The Yeti is not compatible with USB 3. It is compatible with USB 1.1 and 2. Do you know which kind of ports you have?

It's a regular Yeti, and I have USB 3.0, but the Yeti records just fine in any other application. I figured out what Mudgel was talking about with the 2 record buttons, so I'm going to try that. I think it'll work no problem now. 
 

No you monitor through the onboard sound card

mudgel
No you monitor through the onboard sound card

So how are both selected in Sonar at the same time?

It's done through the recording and playback timing master. I think it works because the microphone driver only presents an input side leaving the output side for use by the onboard audio driver which of course will be WDM or MME.

I've checked the Blue website, there is a zero latency headphone connector on the mic or USB plug.

It is possible to address 2 different devices by using WDM driver and setting one as the playback and the other as the recording timing master in preferences audio.

Thanks for the additional comments and insight guys. 
The Yeti, in particular, does have a headphone jack right on the bottom of the mic and windows recognizes it both as an input and a playback device.  I'm not doing too much that's terribly complicated with it at the moment. I'm basically either recording MIDI tracks from my Alesis, or I'm using the Yeti to do voiceover recordings, which are almost always just one track at a time.