Dp Works, Cubase Doesn't- Why? Options

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Hi to the M & M world here... I've tried my best to figure this out but have just hit a wall with ideas.

I've got a G4 500 Powerbook with 1gb of ram. I'm using a Tascam US 122 which seems to work perfectly fine with DP 4.1 but using Cubase SX 1.06 I think, I've got problems. With DP I can record an audio track and listen to it thru headphones run thru the Tascam. WITH CUBASE I hear an echo in the headphones recording audio and the computer stubbornly wants to send the audio out through the Powerbook speakers, at a much lower volume. So recording with Cubase it echos into my headphones, just slightly and I don't hear a thing in the phones when I press "play." WHY IS THIS?

I can barely hear that it is recording but why is the audio play not going thru the headphones? And the echo? Why does it work with DP fine but not Cubase, I'm wondering where a preference is that I've missed, I've looked all over.

Any ideas?

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I forgot, with Cubase when I press record there's crazy feedback. I can turn it down by dropping the fader around midway.

[swilder]

In cubase, go to "Device Setup" and make sure that the default asio driver is the tascam and not the "built in audio controller" of the mac. Also make sure the same is true at the vst inputs window.

Scott

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I've got the Tascam 122 set as the device input. Also in the VST system setup. I loaded a copy of Peak 3 DV and it records fine along with DP. With Cubase I can't tell if it's recording, though the Tascam signal light shows audio is going in.

Thanks for the suggestion swilder. But that's not the solution.

[swilder]

What about going to system preferences | sound | input and making sure that the tascam is selected there?

Scott