Basic Monitoring Question / feedback - Scope

[fraz]

Hi,

Just been recording an input from a CD player into Scope via the ADAT A source modules in my project - It could just as easily been a hardware keyboard.

Got some audio recorded no probelm but do have a question about feeback - On Cubase 6 on an audio track there is a little button/switch for monitoring which I pressed and got a horrible noise thru the speakers -- obviously this is feedback of some sort but I don't understand exactly what has happened which is why I ask here.... .......very basic question I know but one that needed asking.....

btw.....

I do have another audio interface which is more basic on another PC seperate to Scope and I've done the same with a more basic version of Cubase and I monitored the signal without any bad noise/feedback.....though the Edirol isn't as nice as my Scope ........ .....

[fraz]

I think I'm clear on this....hopefully anyway.....

I don't need to press the monitor button in Cubase for my Scope......maybe I was actually monitoring the signal twice or trying to by doing this and thats why the feedback occured becuase it was already being monitored in Scope - Is this correct?

[garyb]

if you monitor the Scope mixer, there's no need to monitor THROUGH Cubase, no?

[fraz]

Yes I agree with you but I am no expert which is why I make mistakes......

I look at the meter in Cubase to see what the value is at the input channel eg. -2db / -5db but I do not need to press the monitor switch in Cubase to do this and if I do I get the noise/feedback because it is also trying to play back the monitored signal as well as record on the channel intended for playback -- anyway I think I'm straight on this now so on to the next thing.......

[ChrisWerner]

You could route the output of the cubase audio track, where you track you instrument or CD, to another output than ASIO 1+2 (Cubase Master). No feeback anymore.

[fraz]

I will look into this and see what I can come up with............