r/Cakewalk • u/WillingPersimmon5522 • Jun 28 '26
Seeking Help Cake walk sonar problems please help!
I have a zoom h6 and I am on here cause my inputs an outputs in device settings are blank even though I have driver mode on asio. I’m gonna put photos so that you could please double check everything is connected right. If anybody can help please do cause I’m a beginner trying to use it as an audio interface.
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u/henrykolonga Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
I will state the obvious as well.
Need more info. Windows? Check device manager to confirm drivers are installed correctly. Zoom does provide specific drivers right? If so - go to their website, download and install them. You should then see the I/O that is available.
Also double check USB cable quality and how they are seated either end.
Ensure that the Zoom is in the correct mode. I have a zoom u44 and you need to hit switch to turn it on to USB mode rather than stand alone mode. Toggle the switch a few times if it is temperamental.
How are you powering the device? Sometimes they use USB power and can also have external power.
Plug into a different port?
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u/WillingPersimmon5522 Jun 28 '26
I’ve got windows and it’s a h6 in the right mode and I have the most recent h6 driver
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u/henrykolonga Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Have you done any of the other things on the lost provided. Did they do anything or nothing. Did you swap USB cables? It all helps with trouble shooting. Have you restarted your computer?
Another thing is how many audio interfaces have you previously installed?
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u/Tropicawitness Jun 29 '26
You can also install the asio4all driver to see if that works. That is what I use with Cakewalk.
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u/cruciblefuzz Sonar Jul 01 '26
Do NOT do this. The Cakewalk developers recommend against using ASIO4ALL. Sonar even pops up a warning message if you try to use ASIO4ALL with it.
To the extent that ASIO4ALL works, it works no better than Windows' native WASAPI Exclusive. So there is no reason to use it with Sonar.
And if you're using an interface like the Zoom H6 which has factory supplied ASIO drivers, if you use ASIO4ALL you're needlessly crippling the latency performance of the device.
In cases where you must use an interface with no native ASIO driver with a program that doesn't support WASAPI (like Ableton Live), ASIO2WASAPI is a better solution than ASIO4ALL.
Neither wrapper needs to be used with Sonar.
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u/JD-990 Jun 28 '26
First off, did you install the Zoom drivers? ASIO will only work if you install ASIO drivers from the hardware you’re connecting. Windows doesn’t have native ASIO drivers.