Audacity Forum

Hello,

I have spent all afternoon trying to solve this problem and need some help.

I have connected my roland DP via the output L/Mono with a 1/4" mono cable to the PC blue line in using a 1/4" to 1/8" mono adapter. (I used these purely because I had them to hand)

The PC recognises the connection, and I have entered the realtek onboard settings and made sure it is enabled and the volume up.

I have made what I think are the correct settings in Audacity and selected the input as the blue line in and selected mono input.

However, I seem to have no input signal at all and cannot record anything. I am using Windows 7.


The setup seems simple and the answer probably is so I am prepared to look foolish and am at your complete mercy.

Many thanks in advance.

Ade

With Audacity open, right-click on the red recording meters and select "Start Monitoring." The meters will wake up and bounce in time with your music without sending Audacity into full record. Also, you can grab one edge of the meters and pull them much larger so you can see what you're doing.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg

Another thing you can try is touch the hot end of the 1/4" piano plug instead of plugging it into the piano. Hold the plug by an insulated cover or hold it by the rubber cable. Audacity meters should bounce (in monitoring mode) when you do that. It would be the 1/4" equivalent of this.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/touch.jpg

If Audacity bounces, then there's something wrong with the piano or possibly the connection. Try temporarily connecting to the piano Headphone output. If Audacity remains silent, then we have other work to do. You should probably know that it's possible for Audacity to get and record a performance without you ever hearing a thing, so there is that failure, too.

Koz

Thanks for the reply,

Tried all that and still nothing. The cables work fine going to my keyboard amp so I know it isn't them. The 1/4" to 1/8" adapter has been independently tested as well and that is also fine.

I have tried to connect to the mic input, but no joy there either.

I also tried touching the end of the cable with monitoring enabled and got nothing from the input meters.

Looks like we do have more to do.

Thanks again

Ade

Go into Audacity Preferences > Devices and see what's selected. then go into Windows Control Panels > Sound and make sure the same things are selected.

Do you use the computer for any other sound services like Skype or recording YouTube?

Koz

The host is MME
The playback device is the speakers
The recording device is line in (which I am pretty certain is what it needs to be)

No, I do not use the computer for Skype or recording You tube. I have the stereo mix enabled in the sound devices though (but I have tried disabling this and just having line in enabled, and still nothing)

I have noticed though that my 1/4 to 1/8 adapter is stereo whereas my 1/4 jack cable is mono and I am using the mono output from the piano, just in case this may be causing some sort of conflict, but I doubt it.

The piano is new and I know the connections and cables are in good condition and do work because I use the equipment for gigging.


Thanks for the continuing help

Ade

All sorted,

Must have been a cable issue.

I replace the setup with this:

Two mono 1/4" jack leads coming from the piano, which then terminates to two phono leads the other end.

This then plugged into a double phono to stereo 1/8" or (3.5mm) socket adapter, then into the blue line in on the PC.

Fantastic...until the next issue!!

Thanks very much for the replies Koz.

Ade