Look in the Setup MME program for other programs that may be grabbing audio outputs or inputs. In addition, see what other audio software you have running. Why is my first input monitor always muted when I run Cubase? This is because we support ASIO 2. Direct Monitoring gives Cubase control over the hardware monitors. When Cubase starts up, it uses DirectMonitoring to mute that monitor. We realize that this is annoying. As far as we can tell the concept[…]