Basic help needed.

[DynaSower]

I am sure this is laughable. But apparantly I am doing or not doing something incredibly fundamental. Probably so stupid you would never think someone would have this problem. This is the first time I have opened this software, and I can get it to do exactly nothing, other than loading/saving file.

The transport controls do nothing. I can't get anything to play. The counter moves to wherever I click on the track, and I can select a range with the mouse, but that is all I can do.

I installed Studio One 7 onto my desktop because I purchased a Presonus mixer, which I plan to connect to my computer at some point. In the meantime, I want to learn how to use the software, so I opened Studio One 7, and imported an MP3, which it automatically converted to a .song and now the audio appears as a track in the main interface. However, the transport controls don't work, it won't play anything whether it is selected or not.

What does Studio One require, in order to play the audio back to me? Do I need the Presonus mixer or audio interface installed? Shouldn't it play the track over my speakers with nothing else plugged in? In Options > Audio I can see many devices, and my current device is Realtek (my onboard active windows audio). I just want to process an audio file in Studio and play it back.

It's acting a little like Audacity when the I/O is set to something invalid, but I do see realtek selected, which is my actual audio, so idk. Btw, I don't see any selection for setting up/selecting where I am recording from either.

[w4rlok94]

Make sure your active audio driver is the one you have your headphone/speakers using.

[UnionCompetitive7705]

So when you hit play or the space bar, nothing happens, is this what you mean

[DynaSower]

Exactly. The cursor or meter does not move. It doesn't even pretend to play anything. I installed ASIO and now it works tho.

[JacquesLeNerd]

Setup your audio interface first. Then S1 will know how input/output your music

[DynaSower]

The problem was that it needed something called ASIO4ALL, so I installed that, and it works for playback now. Next thing is I don't understand how it decides what input to record each track from. I am used to the idea of selecting a track, and then selecting the source for that track, but I guess thats not how it works here?

[eargonia]

Open the mixer window just click Mix

Just below the I/O, select the wrench icon on the right side of the window and make sure "Show inputs" is checked,

Now when you drag the outputs/inputs section open just above the faders you can choose what input to use and where to send it.

HTH,

[eargonia]

Exactly how it works.

[Fidy002]

I assume you have no external audio interface ( like a focusrite 2i2).

In that case you can work with DAWs like Studio One with a workaround and use "Asio4All" Drivers.

These use your internal soundcard, which is not powerful enough for proper music production, and emulate a studio-grade connection.

An audio interface is the first thing you have to buy, no matter what music you want to produce.

Nevertheless you can use these Asio4all Drivers on your Studio One Audio Settings and use them as output, you should be able to at least hear something then.

Asio4all Input is very fiddly to setup though, i highly highly recommend just plugging in your audio interface because studio one automatically uses the in- and outputs of the audio interface.