Audio engine will not start on ANY project

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Zelmo
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2011/05/20 19:09:51 (permalink)

Audio engine will not start on ANY project

Greetings!
 
I was playing back some projects for a friend recently.  The first few were fine.  I loaded the next one, and there was no audio at all.
 
I looked at the Audio menu, and everything looked fine, so I closed Sonar 8.5.3 and ran iTunes as a test.  It worked fine, so the VS-700 R/C are OK.  Windows Media player is also fine, but the Audio Engine light is off and I can't get it to turn on.
 
I searched the forums and found posts about audio engine, but all of them were about MIDI-only songs.  All of the ones I tried are all audio tracks.  BTW, the audio tracks themselves in the Audio folder are fine.  I can load them into Windows Media and they're OK.
 
I didn't make any changes to the system recently.
 
I'm stumped.  Any suggestions welcomed.
 
Also, I have downloaded (but not yet installed) X1, so maybe that's the best solution.  The problem is that I need to do three firmware updates to the 700 C & R before I can load X1, so I've been procrastinating.  Everything was working so well that I was reluctant to mess with it.  WAS!
 
Thanks,
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    Kev999
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    Re:Audio engine will not start on ANY project 2011/05/20 20:37:47 (permalink)
    I once had a similar problem and it turned out that the Master bus' output was set to "none" instead of to the soundcard.  This setting had changed because I had previously opened the project while the soundcard was disconnected.


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    Re:Audio engine will not start on ANY project 2011/05/20 20:39:47 (permalink)
    Did you check Options-Audio-Drivers to make sure the VS-700 was selected as the input and output? With USB devices sometimes Windows doesn't recognize them and if not, neither will Sonar. 

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