Trouble Recording

Hello...and welcome. 

Lets see if we can help you a bit. 

Start off by telling us about the computer and the sound card you are using.

Also include the operating system version and if its 32 or 64 bits. 

try changing to MME driver mode.

"P" for preferences on the keyboard, then on the pull down menu, change the DRIVER MODE to MME

let it run tests.

then.....

go get yourself a USB soundcard/interface and a traditional mic.  you'll be much happier.

check my website for some recommendations.

Just a heads up... in the "for what it's worth" department.....

I have a Dell Inspiron with factory card. I've had the laptop for over 6 years and have tried several times to get it to run Music Creator successfully.  It never has. Under any of the driver modes. 

I have to use the external interface/sound card with it.  Your's may be similar. 

Music Creator 6 is the latest version and is both W7/32 and W7/64 compatible. So that should not be the issue. The sound card in the laptop is not designed to work well with Cake products and that may be causing the issue. 

After running the Wave Profiler  for MME, be sure to select the default sound card as audio in and out. It should work OK with audio..... midi and soft synths might be a totally different issue however. 

The best option, as Beagle pointed out, is, and especially if you are at least halfway serious about recording music in an efficient manner, would be to purchase a USB audio and midi interface. It is an external sound card that IS designed to work well with MC6 using ASIO (the best) audio driver. 

keep us posted how it goes.

The external interface (available at many of the bigger music stores) is going to be the answer. 

Most of the stores have a no faults return policy on hardware so in the rare event it doesn't solve it... you can return the interface. 

You may have a few minor bugs when installing the interface but normally, install according to the instructions and you will be up and running in short order.

let us know.... someone is generally around this forum most of the time..... I'm off to do some hunting and will be gone for the weekend.... 

Every one here who is serious about recording either at the professional level or just as a fun and serious hobby uses some sort of external interface that runs ASIO drivers. 

It really makes the software work smoothly, like it was designed to do. 

I could not do what I do musically without a decent interface. 

Focusrite, Presonus, M-Audio are among the better and more favored ones in use here. 

Hey just an update. I haven't been on here in a while. I tried looking around for some other sound cards and new driver updates for my computer, but for some reason, nothing will work.  There was some bad crash on my hard drive and it crashed my sound card capabilities.  I messed around with a USB plug-in mic that I have, and for some reason, it configured to my Music creator program (like you had origionally suggested Beagle).  It's a pretty funky way for it to work because now music creator won't work without the mic plugged in.  The mic also, when plugged in, does not allow my iTunes to work.  All in all I'm finding it's my computer's out dated drivers, and useless sound card that was the problem, but music creator is running and recording at the accecptable level it did before my issues.  Thank you guys for the help, I probably wouldn't have figured it out without some sort of leads.  I appreciate the advise for my inevitable future issues with this computer. :D

The computer sees the USB mic as an interface/sound card of sorts...and it is. But again, not a very good one.  While some folks do try to use the USB mics and cake even has a sticky post by Fog on how to make them work, we* do not recommend anyone try to use them to record music in MC or any other cake product. (we* = the long time users here)

Try getting a dedicated musical interface... it runs on the USB connection but unlike the mic, it has ASIO drivers and it has both inputs and outputs built in.   Chances are pretty good that it will solve the problems you are experiencing.