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Helix doesn't record in Cubase LE8 and Reaper. GarageBand works fine


EooN
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Hey guys!  

 

I'm a MacOS user and I've been happily recording and practicing through my Helix using GarageBand. My band is about to record a song and we decided to experiment a bit recording techniques and use my Helix to lay all guitar tracks. To better prepare I wanted to try re-amping. This can't be done in GB as I can't route track output to Helix's USB inputs. 

 

I installed Reaper to try it. It sees my Helix as an audio device, is set to record it but it doesn't. When I play on an armed track, no signal shows up on the volume meter. 

Same thing in Cubase 8 LE. 

 

I can open Repaer and get no recording singal, then Cubase and get nothing. When I open GB everything works as expected. 

 

Could you help me troubleshoot this thing please? I can provide screenshots of config screens if necessary. I think that the DAWs are pretty much the same interface-wise across OSes ;)

 

PS. If that's important I'm on a mid-2015 MBP with Mojave 10.14.3.

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rd2rk Thanks, but I had a lightbulb moment and managed to fixed the damned thing myself :) 

So what was wrong you may ask? I said "no"  when Repaer and Cubase asked if they could access my microphone when I run them for the very first time. Even though I didn't use a microphone as a sound input, it seems to have blocked all inputs altogether. 

 

I allowed both Reaper and Cubase to access the mic in the privacy settings et voila!

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3 hours ago, EooN said:

rd2rk Thanks, but I had a lightbulb moment and managed to fixed the damned thing myself :) 

So what was wrong you may ask? I said "no"  when Repaer and Cubase asked if they could access my microphone when I run them for the very first time. Even though I didn't use a microphone as a sound input, it seems to have blocked all inputs altogether. 

 

I allowed both Reaper and Cubase to access the mic in the privacy settings et voila!

 

I had the same problem back when Mac OS was last updated to Mojave. What a dumb thing for the Apple software people to to! Makes me wonder what kind of silly things like this will pop up in future updates.

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