Starting to get problems

I am starting to have the following difficulties:

When I start Sonar X1 Producer it sometimes tells me that "There are no audio devices for the current driver model on your system. Please go to the Options / Audio and choose a different driver model."

I used Sonar today for several hours without problems. If I turn my VS-100 off and on a few times and restart Sonar several times it eventually works. Needless to say I don't have the patience to be turning things off and on repeatedly until they finally work. Nor should I have to.
Any help appreciated.
Mick

The VS-100 should not be powered up until the operating system is fully booted. Power down the VS-100 reboot your PC do not turn on the VS-100 until your operating system has fully booted up.

micklamm


Thanks for the replies guys. I always wait till the system is fully booted before I power up the VS-100. The VS-100 is on and all cables are plugged in. As I said it was working fine this afternoon but tonight it is not...
Mick

Mick,
 
I don't have an answer for you - but I can say this:
 
In all the years I've been doing this, one thing I can COUNT on, is "surprise" LOL.   Sometimes things just don't go right.
 
At those moments, I reboot ;)  And pray :)
 
 
 
 

micklamm


This is starting to really annoy me.... now when I open the project I have been working on and press the play button, I cannot stop the playback. The only way to stop it is to go to Device Manager and force Sonar X1 to close down. When I start it up again the same thing happens.

Mick

Mick,
 
Did you change ANYTHING (and I do mean ANYTHING) in your system?  Did you change settings, or anything like that?

IF not, maybe some device has developed a problem.  Check your power supply, CPU fan (many overlook this!), Memory, everything.    We can't just make music, as you know; we have to be doctors too ;)
 
 

I have the VS-100 and run into those issues at times too, but only when I forget to turn on the VS-100. If Sonar (both 8.5 and X1) load without the device on - it loses all the settings for the control surface and sometimes even the device driver. It happened again just yesterday, and took me a few reboots and settings changes to get it right again.

That was certainly user error because I didn't have the device turned on, and you seem to be suggesting the device is on when it gets lost. If this is the case, I'd look to a connection problem (usb cable, windows putting it to sleep, etc...).

Are you using Asio? Do you have more than one audio device in the system? If so - keep in mind Asio can only load drivers for one device and once that's loaded, the next device goes without a driver.

Have you updated the VS-100 drivers to version 2, and firmware to 1.5? This shouldn't be mandatory (old drivers should still work fine) but if you are having problems, now might be a good time to try updating those. Both firmware and driver need to be done at the same time - they go hand in hand.

I'm just tossing a few possible problems/solutions out there to look into.
Good luck, I know it can be frustrating.

Hey. I tried the things you guys suggested and it seems to be working fine. Thanks so much.