u/-Logy

I feel like I have tried every suggestion and instruction, but to no avail.

So, I have things set up to monitor and record my external synths. No problems there. But I can't hear anything else. I want to record my Bass Station and have an instance of Impact playing a beat in the background that I can jam along to, but I can't hear it playing. I would like it this way because it seems preferable to listening to a metronome. And hell, I'd take the metronome at this point, but I can't hear that either. I should also add that I can't hear already recorded audio tracks that are in the arrangement either, I'm by no means hell-bent on having a LIVE metronome or 4/4 kick to jam along to.

I have a Behringer UMC404HD as an interface. It has 4 outputs (2 stereo pairs). I have 2 stereo options created in the I/O output section. The first is called 'Main' and corresponds to the first stereo pair. The second I have called 'Metronome' and it's linked to the second stereo pair. Both are active and have that white dot visible.

Metronome button is selected and active on the main output. On the channel for Impact the output is Bus 1, which I created during one of my attempts to solve this. Bus 1 is routed to 'Main' (the text field above the selection for 'Bus 1' appears to be greyed out with no option to select the Impact). Monitoring and recording is armed on the Impact track.

Meters are hopping on the mixer's track for Impact, Bus 1, and Main output when I have Impact playing. I hear nothing. They are also hopping when I press a key on my Bass Station. That I do hear.

Now, I'm new to Studio One, and I have had some struggles trying to understand it all, but I feel like I have done everything that's suggested I do. I've watched tutorials, Googled specific questions to get detailed AI responses.

Another thing to add, I am using Studio One Artist version 6.6, which I recently learned does not have a listening bus, and that's one of the potential solutions to this problem I encountered that is not open to me, but as far as I know it is possible to hear a metronome along with an external synth even on my version of Studio One (and sure why wouldn't it be)

I don't know what I'm missing here. A proper understanding of audio routing? Drivers? Brain cells?

Please help me generate two distinct streams of sound.

Thanks