After install, audio input is not recognized. Cannot record.

[Guest]

I have been using Audtion for almost 10 years.  I have installed Audition on a new desktop.  The message appears:  "The audio input is not activated.  Recording audio is not possible.  Check your audio input configuration."  I have configured the audio from the control panel.  A test reveals that it is picking up on the audio input.  In Audition when I open the equipment set up, it does not recognize any inputs at all.  Do I just need another type of sound card?  Help.

[ryclark]

More details needed. What type of soundcard have you got and on what spec PC with which operating system?

[Guest]

The only info I can obtain from the Device Manager is that the sound card is a Realtek.  The driver is listed as 6.0.1.5859.  The computer is an ASUS using a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5300 2.60GHz.  I am using Windows 7.

[RonNovy]

It sounds like the error you get when Jack sensing is enabled and there is nothing plugged into the selected input or the input jack is broken...  I don't have Vista or WIndows 7 here so I can't tell you for sure if that's it or how to fix it, but maybe someone here has a better idea...

And you could always try ASIO4ALL...

Hope that helps...

[Guest]

I appreciate the info but that isn't the problem.  I read somewhere about ASIO sound cards being recommended.  It is sounding more and more like my sound card is just not one which supports Audition.  The sound card is working very well for other applications, just not Audition.  By the way, I have Audition 3.  I think I will just go drive a truck for a living.  (but then the truck might breakdown).

[RonNovy]

Perhaps disabling windows sounds all together might help... I had to do that with some Realtek drivers years ago just to get Audition to recognize it, but it worked with windows sounds enabled later after an update.   Maybe an old bug has come back?

And I hadn't tested that link I posted above so I didn't know it was broken...  It should have been www.asio4all.com or ASIO4ALL...  It just acts like an ASIO driver by using regular WDM drivers from the Realtek device.  Just set Audition to use ASIO4ALL instead of Realtek and set ASIO4ALL to use Realtek and then profit....

Just in case you didn't know all that already though...

[Guest]

I'll give that a try next week and let you know how it turns out.  I will also try the asio link.  Thanks.

[Fa310tx]

Not to resurrect an old post, but...

I have a computer with Windows 7 (32-bit), Audition 3, and an Echo Gina24 card.  The echo card is using windows 7 drivers and they've always been known for good hardware/software.

We've been using this, for years, on Xp and Audition 1.5.  As soon as we installed 7/3, this error started popping up.  Whenever it does, the windows sounds still work.  I don't know if the problem is with windows7, the asio drivers, or audition (unfortunately, I don't have any other asio software to test).  I have to go into audition's hardware setup, switch back to the windows sound drivers (non-asio), set up the inputs/outputs, apply, and exit.  Usually, the next audition start will work.  I go back into the hardware setup and switch everything back to asio and it works.  A few days, or maybe weeks, later, the error will pop up again.

I just spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out what the problem was.  I installed the audition 3.0.1 update, just to test, and it didn't fix the problem.

JJ

[janjoenge]

I'm a long time Adobe/cooledit user but am confronted with a lot of problems since last year:

last year i bought a 'Dell Vostro' and was since then unable to record audio (streams/mixes) - had to use a cable from my phone-output to my microphone-input !! (felt really medieval)

this laptop got stolen, now I have the 'Dell Inspiron': still i can't record stereo mixes: there is no audio input available  in the 'audio hardware setup' and now I can't even rip music from cd's anymore! - I use freerip now

where is this going to end??? Is this part of the war on copyright-violations?

any solutions/better programs?

grtz,

J

[Guest]

janjoenge wrote:

this laptop got stolen, now I have the 'Dell Inspiron': still i can't record stereo mixes: there is no audio input available  in the 'audio hardware setup' and now I can't even rip music from cd's anymore! - I use freerip now

where is this going to end??? Is this part of the war on copyright-violations?

any solutions/better programs?

It's probably related to the copyright war, although Microsoft have published code to supposedly enable a "stereo mix" type function with their new audio protocols. You have to compile it, and I couldn't get it to work, so that's not much help.

I use "Total Recorder" to replace the "Stereo Mix" function, and there are other programs. These are not expensive. There are free ones, but Total Recorder integrates into many versions of Audition as well as being a stand alone program.

For ripping CD's, "Exact Audio Copy" is commonly recommended and is what I have used where Windows 7 seems to have broken the link between Audition and the CD drive.

There have been many other postings here about this, so I'd recommend trying to find them for more information.

[WhorrorCulture]

I too had this problem and spent a good couple hours trying to fix this. I registered on this site so people who have this problem have a fast solution. It's as simple as right clicking clicking the icon on your desktop and run as admin. Hope this helps haha. This worked for me and i've never had this problem before I started using win7. It has something to do with having to be run as winxp I believe. Just try running it as the administrator.

[DreamingDragon]

When I got this error, I had to go into Audition and pick "Edit" then "Audio Hardware Setup".

In the resulting Audio Hardware Setup window I found that my Default Input was set to blank.

I had to click on the "Control Panel..." button where under the DirectSound Input Ports section, nothing was selected, but I had one Device, my Docking Microphone available.  I clicked on the empty check box beside this device and clicked on OK until I exited out back to the recording screen and then I could record.

Subsequently when starting up Audition, I no longer received the message: "The audio input is not activated.  Recording audio is not possible.  Check your audio input configuration."