@Alex-Kirkwood Yes, you must select an ASIO driver. Navigate to File > Settings > Program Settings > Audio/MIDI and select the ASIO driver of your audio interface. If you don't have one, select the Music Maker ASIO driver. Next, click on the Advanced button to open the ASIO driver control panel. Here you can select the audio input and output and set the ASIO sample buffer size to a reasonable value, for example 512 samples. If this is too high latency for your recording, try a lower value like 256 samples (the more tracks, instruments and effects your project has, the higher the buffer needs to be to keep it running without audio drop-outs. Alternatively, mute already recorded tracks you don't need during recording.)

Thanks! I'll try that when I get back home)

@Alex-Kirkwood Yes, you must select an ASIO driver. Navigate to File > Settings > Program Settings > Audio/MIDI and select the ASIO driver of your audio interface. If you don't have one, select the Music Maker ASIO driver. Next, click on the Advanced button to open the ASIO driver control panel. Here you can select the audio input and output and set the ASIO sample buffer size to a reasonable value, for example 512 samples. If this is too high latency for your recording, try a lower value like 256 samples (the more tracks, instruments and effects your project has, the higher the buffer needs to be to keep it running without audio drop-outs. Alternatively, mute already recorded tracks you don't need during recording.)

That seems to work but it sounds pretty clicky even at low buffer. Do you need a pretty powerful PC and maybe my laptop isn't good enough?

@Alex-Kirkwood The lower the buffer the more likely you'll hear clicks and pops due to lost samples. You can get an ASIO capable external USB audio interface which takes over the audio processing from the CPU. This is recommended for music production on a computer.

@Alex-Kirkwood The lower the buffer the more likely you'll hear clicks and pops due to lost samples. You can get an ASIO capable external USB audio interface which takes over the audio processing from the CPU. This is recommended for music production on a computer.

Good morning and thank you. I have a Scarlett stereo audio interface which I use for direct audio recording. So I would need the one you mentioned too, for midi recording?

@Alex-Kirkwood The lower the buffer the more likely you'll hear clicks and pops due to lost samples. You can get an ASIO capable external USB audio interface which takes over the audio processing from the CPU. This is recommended for music production on a computer.

Is this good enough?

Forum is a pain in the neck. It's not uploading screenshot. Have seen an Emagic MT4 usb midi interface on Ebay, about £50

Gear4music also do a "Subzero 4x4 midi interface"

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@Alex-Kirkwood You have a Focusrite Scarlett interface? That should be enough. You select the Focusrite ASIO driver in the Music Maker audio settings and set the ASIO buffer size to reasonable value, for example 512 samples. Connect your speakers or headphones directly to the audio interface. That should allow you to record and play music without any crackles and pops.

@Alex-Kirkwood You have a Focusrite Scarlett interface? That should be enough. You select the Focusrite ASIO driver in the Music Maker audio settings and set the ASIO buffer size to reasonable value, for example 512 samples. Connect your speakers or headphones directly to the audio interface. That should allow you to record and play music without any crackles and pops.

Hi recording pure audio is fine, it's just recording midi is the problem. The scarlett doesn't have midi

@Alex-Kirkwood MIDI ports on the audio interface would only be needed if you own a MIDI device without USB connection. You wrote your MIDI keyboard is a USB device. This means the keyboard has its own internal MIDI interface. Do you still have problems during MIDI recording?

@Alex-Kirkwood MIDI ports on the audio interface would only be needed if you own a MIDI device without USB connection. You wrote your MIDI keyboard is a USB device. This means the keyboard has its own internal MIDI interface. Do you still have problems during MIDI recording?

Yes, during recording playback the track is very late. I only found out this week how to hear it live as you record, but it was very crackly so I switched that off. The playback sound is fine, not crackly, just very late all the time

@Alex-Kirkwood MIDI ports on the audio interface would only be needed if you own a MIDI device without USB connection. You wrote your MIDI keyboard is a USB device. This means the keyboard has its own internal MIDI interface. Do you still have problems during MIDI recording?

Oh yes you're right! It's a USB midi controller so why would I need a midi interface? Beginning to think my laptop is too slow. I have heard switching off plugins on the DAW might help. How is this done?