Monitor recording via soundcard while recording with Dante and Cubase

[martinav]

Hey fellow audio geeks.

I'm using a Yamaha M7CL with two Audinate Dante cards. Using a powerful pc, and Nuendo 3/Cubase. It's working well, but I can't find a way to use the internal soundcard when the asio driver for the Dante controller/virtual soundcard selected in nuendo. It seems that nuendo cannot work with both the Dante asio driver and the computer's audio asio driver both at the same time. I can do either one just fine. But, I really want to monitor the after nuendo mix during recording. Any suggestions?

Thank you and God bless!
Rod

[pdc]

Right. This is the way it must be. It is one or the other. Why do you want to access your internal sound card when you have all of the I/O and better conversion on the Yamaha? Tell me you are using a licensed version of Nuendo and not a cracked copy from the web. You will always have issues with that, even if things are configured correctly.

[martinav]

We have a sound guy mixing the house on the M7CL. I am stealing signal from the board via the two Dante cards. I want to be completely separate from the board, especially since the work I'm doing on NUENDO will eventually be sent to a separate room. Thus, I will want to monitor what I'm mixing since i will not have the M7 handy. But, all I'm wanting to do is direct Stereo Output 1 to my headphone port, so I can wear a set of studio headphones to listen to what is being recorded. That way, I can be sure I'm not having sync issues (i.e. crackle) and that I'm capturing the right channels, etc.

I have seen some downloads that creates a vitrual ASIO device that you can select multiple ASIO drivers. Since the Virtual ASIO device is no a parent of the drivers, you can now supposedly access both at the same time. I'm reluctant to try this, because it just sounds kind of hacky, and thus questionable reliability.

So, I was hoping I was just missing something obvious. Apparently I'm not. True?

A word about the software license question:

Let me assure you I am completely legal. I happened to be a Pinnacle dealer back when they bought Steinberg, so I got Nuendo 2 at a killer price. I also picked up Nuendo 3 on ebay not long ago for a good price... Sealed box. Also, I appreciate creative license, especially since I do some of my own work. I despise piracy, and that it makes the software companies go to extreme measures to TRY to keep their software safe from theives. Of course, the thieves are always successful in cracking the software, but as a legal user, it is ME that has the inconvenience of keeping track of this USB key that If I misplace it or lose it, I'm sunk. I have this saying that software licensing is there just to make it incovneient for those that want to do the right thing. If I sound a little bitter about it, you are right. I have spent a lot of hours in my years dealing with the troubles of license activation issues, and transfers. Sometimes, I THINK about getting a cracked copy of the SAME software I OWN just to avoid the inconveniences! I would, of course, still fulfill the spirit of using the license only on one computer at a time, like I do now. However, this is only hypothetical, because I havent actually gone through and done this! Ok, enough with the rant.

[STEALMYBUCKS]

As far as I know, there is still no solution for the ASIO drivers on Windows machines. There is a solution when working in the Mac world, which allows you to monitor your inputs via the core audio drivers.

You might want to give Audinate an email, maybe they have an actual work around that isn't hokey :0

[martinav]

Oh, yeah... The audinate guys! Checking....

[martinav]

Two business days over... no reply from Audenate.

[THPWhosoever]

Martinav, send me a private message. I tried the same thing you tried. I'll give you a solution.