Thanks for the advice. Sorry, I figured that as the G track was a USB mic of  the same make, that it would fit into this thread. I'll continue elsewhere.

Hello
As a visual artist I am new to the sound thing and have the following basic problem. I bought a Samson Q1U USB mic that came bundled with Cakewalk Music Creator LE. I am unable to set up mic in the programme. I can record with the windows vista recorder and get a good clean playback. I have also tested the mic with a musician friend on his system; cannot remember what programme. The mic works very well but Cakewalk is just not 'seeing' it. I have followed your very clear instructions as my programme looks much the same as your demo one. All goes well up to point 5. But then the (1  in1 out ) drop down menue does not respond and I can get no further.  Any ideas what the problem might be?
with thanks

http://samsontech.com/products/productFAQs.cfm?prodID=1810&brandID=2

is their take on it.. BUT it should at least be showing up in the audio page in input devices..

what about your other pc card, is it just the onboard one ?

if your going in via a hub, maybe there isn't enough power.. go into your control panel / system devices and see if it even lists the device under "sound cards" , but obviously if it's working in audacity / wavasaur / vista recorder then its installed.. hhmm

it uses a generic driver thought, one built into windows.. what about the vista your using.. latest version/update? and also are running MC from the main admin account?

NIce thread but does anyone how to get the Mic working on a MAcbook at all really screwed here trying to get it working????

So Fog, I did everything you said and everything went accordingly, the level went up and down as I spoke into the mic, but when I hit the Record nothing happened. The level indicator stoppped moving hence no recording. I tried it on left, right and stereo. What am I doing wrong?

you did ARM the track?!?! thats the first thing I can think of.

the thing is also , I use a decent enough sound card (that supports asio) and well it's a different thing to using the in built soundcard which would have far higher latency normally.

Jed, I'm not clued up on macboook (well not these days :) ) , but I'm assuming your using it via XP emulation ? it should be a case of it's using it's generic driver.. the easiest way to test that is via audacity or sound recorder even.

Wuzz up everybody?...I bought mic/sonar combo not too long ago and for some reason i can't hear input from the mic through the headphones but my levels come up and it records fine...I even went and bought a usb- to- headphone converter...I'm using a Dell Optiplex GX270 wit XP...any suggestions?

Is it save to leave this microphone plugged in w/ the green LED on?
Does the microphone stay powered and wear out the parts or does it only "work" when using an application that calls for it?

well the light only indicate power is going to it.. you can always mute it anyway IF your not using it.. as it'll probably default as the windows default record device. I just leave mine plugged in . NOT selected as the default mic and if I'm not using it, just cover it, so dust doesn't get into the mic.

the LED just shows there is power going from the USB pretty much.

thanks for the great instructions I can now see my samson CO1U, however when I arm the record I still get no input, have I missed something else?.  The mike works on windows sound recorder.