OK Got an Octa capture and Sonar X1 Producer.  Had HS7XL before.  I can play  the older projects no problem in X1 using Octacapture but tonight I tried to record a new project and I 've run into a problem.  I'm sure I'm missing something basic.

Open new project
Insert Audio track 
Set the I/O for the Octacapture
Turn on  echo and arm record in track
I can hear the mic through the headphones but I don't see the meters light up.
I checked audio in preferences, Octacapture is set up
I also checked and initialized the Octacapture.

What am I missing?  I looked at all the troubleshooting in the Sonar Help and Octacapture help. rebooted, open and closed Sonar and Octacapture.  I'm at a loss.

Neil

I'm just guessing here (I have the Quad Capture, less inputs).

The sound from headphones, could it be the direct monitoring sound ? On my Quad, I have a mix knob to turn mix between playback/input. I would turn it all the way to playback to hear sound that is echoed back from Sonar to check if I've got the right input channel.

User Error as expected.

It's like when the I.T.guy asks "is it plugged in".

What I as doing wrong (this is embarrassing) was......

When you have your mic plugged into Input 8 on the OctaCapture everything works so much better when the INPUT IN THE X1 TRACK IS SET TO THE OCTACAPTURE CHANNEL 8

At least this time I remembered to turn "echo"on.

Neil

Laughing with you. Sometimes you get so caught up in what your doing you forget to plug in the guitar. LOL!

Guitarpima


Laughing with you. Sometimes you get so caught up in what your doing you forget to plug in the guitar. LOL!

Or turn on phantom power!!!!!!
"My the heck does this mic and lead work fine on this channel but not that one?      WTF!!!!!!!!      *later*           OH!!!!!!! "