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Hello folks anyone having the same nightmare I'm having. I have a basic laptop and a yamaha cp33 for my controller and cantabile for my plugin host. I have everything set up in the correct usual manner to play my vsts and make recordings through cantabile and windows media player plays them back for me. There are 4 external inputs on my Babyface pro the first 2 go to the analog outputs of the cp33 so I can use some of the internal sounds generated by it. When I record I pick up all vst's and the sounds of the yamaha no problems there. But when I want to record what's plugged into 3 and 4 on Babyface it doesn't get recorded. Now I hear everything in my monitors and all meters are moving and I have the proper input settings in cantabile checked. Sometimes I even get a error prompt from windows media. player. Tech support from rme said something like windows media player won't record 4 channels at once. Any ideas please. Thank you, MooganDavid

Are you rendering\converting the audio file to stereo format before playing it in Media Player?

I am not an expert about Cantabile… does it propose you to select 3&4 instead of a default 1&2 ?

You could try Reaper and its free evaluation : (insert new track, click the red button on the track, on the « input  » selector, click stereo Input3/input4). You may also have to tweak in options/preferences/audio device, your ASIO driver.

It may be simpler to link your CP33 in input 1/2.

Does your Yamaha have a MIDI setting called "AUDIO LOOPBACK"? If you, you probably want this switched to "ON" - just make sure your playback selection in Cantabile is not the piano but the actual computer speakers - otherwise you may get a horrible infinite feedback loop that could damage your hardware. This solution worked for me but I have a Yamaha p515 and I'm using Audacity to record...

I don't know TBell I'm just hitting record button in cantabile

I'm using analog inputs 1 and 2 for output of cp33 input 3and 4 are my friends roland digital drums everything sounds fine through the monitors. Thanks for replying FredericL

Hi danno858 I do get a horrible feedback whenever I turn my laptop on and run cantabile with the master input volume turned up out of the laptops speakers. I thought that was the laptop mike feeding back. Doesn't do that when babyface is connected and my studio monitors. Thank you

This page shows how to add audio ports in catibile

https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/guides/configuringAudioPorts