Your First Route

This walks through the smallest useful thing Routling does: taking a hardware input and sending it to a hardware output. Five minutes, no plugins.

Before you start#

You need an ASIO device. If Open Device shows "No ASIO devices found", install your interface's ASIO driver, or ASIO4ALL for generic hardware.

1. Open your primary device#

Click Open Device in the toolbar.

Pick your interface from the list, then confirm with Open Device. You can set sample rate and buffer size here, but the defaults are fine for now.

The empty-state canvas.

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The toolbar now shows the device name with a pulsing dot - that means the audio engine is running - plus the buffer size and current latency.

2. Add an input node#

Right-click anywhere on the canvas. Choose ASIO Channels → Input, then pick the channel your source is plugged into - channel 1 if your mic is in input 1.

A node appears. Its meter moves when audio arrives, which is the fastest way to confirm you picked the right channel.

3. Add an output node#

Right-click again. Choose ASIO Channels → Output and pick the output your speakers or headphones are on - often channels 1 and 2.

Every channel is mono, so a stereo pair is two nodes. Add both, and connect to each one. See ASIO Channels.

4. Connect them#

Drag from the output port on the right edge of your input node to the input port on the left edge of your output node.

You can also click one port, then click the other. Press Esc to cancel a connection in progress.

Two nodes joined by a single connection.

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A curved wire now joins the two nodes. Audio is flowing. You should hear your input.

5. Adjust the level#

Click the wire. Its inspector opens with a gain slider and a numeric field - drag, or type an exact value. Range is -60 dB to +36 dB.

Alt + click the wire resets it to 0 dB.

6. Save it#

Open the toolbar menu (⋮) and choose Save. Name the session.

Routling also auto-restores whatever was on the canvas when you last closed it, so saving is for keeping named setups you want to switch between. See Sessions and State.

What you just built#

One source, one destination, one connection with its own gain. Every larger setup in Routling is this same pattern repeated - see Streaming Setup or DAW Integration for where it goes next.

If you hear nothing#

1. Does the input node's meter move? No → wrong channel, or the source is not sending. Try another input node.
2. Does the output node's meter move? No → the connection is not made, or its gain is at minimum.
3. Meters move but no sound? Check Windows is not routing your speakers elsewhere, and check the output node is the channel they are really on.
4. Crackling? Raise the buffer size in the toolbar. See Latency and Buffers.

More in Troubleshooting.

Next#

• Interface Tour - everything else on screen
• Nodes and Connections - ports, meters, groups, the port mixer
• FX Module - put plugins in the path