Bansaw
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Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
I've Sonar Home and have been installing some free VSTs. Sonar has been working well up to now. Now, for some reason sound will not come out of my sound card: Edirol UA-1EX. I reinstalled the sound drivers and it works OK in Windows, but not in Sonar. In the audio setting I make sure everything is ticked properly. In fact, no track I lay down moves the sound meter, whether audio or midi. The sound meter is lifeless. I'm importing valid WAV audio and putting down some midi notes in the piano roll. For some reason the master bus does not indicate that its getting any sound info from the tracks. Any ideas what going wrong ? --------------------------------- More info: I changed the driver method from ASIO to MME and it seemed to work. I would rather use ASIO however because there's just too much latency from the MME. Why has ASIO stopped working?
post edited by Bansaw - 2012/12/26 20:23:27
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/27 05:25:17
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If everything really is "ticked properly", then what is left is technical malfunction or bad cable. But I do think there's something to be ticked, still .:o). You don't tell what is ticked, so it's hard to start guessing.
ASIO surely beats MME as a driver. The fact that you got sound with MME, and Windows sounds are heard, makes me think you have not set SONAR to use the Edirol at all, but the integrated soundchip. Those chips usually only understand MME, and not ASIO.
Basicly, if the correct in/out drivers, preferably ASIO, are selected, and the Edirol is selected as both record and playback timing master, and the ins and outs of the tracks are set correctly, you should be good to go.
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Bansaw
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/27 12:10:24
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Thanks Kalle,
The sound card (UA-1EX) does not even show up in the options for ASIO, like it did before. But it does for MME.
I uninstalled the sound card driver and reinstalled it, and the sound card appeared in ASIO so I selected it. However, after an hour or so, it vanished again!
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/27 12:45:09
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Check you power management settings.
It kind of looks like the system may be turning off the USB port.
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/27 14:25:48
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RobertB
Check you power management settings.
It kind of looks like the system may be turning off the USB port.
...or would a bad cable losing contact cause the same symptoms as a USB port being switchged off??
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Bansaw
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/28 00:14:00
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thanks all,
-- I reinstalled Sonar and plugged my sound card back in. It seemed to work.
However, I am trying out some free VSTs to hear what they sound like. And its one of these VSTs that broke Sonar.
In fact, I tried out loading some more VSTs and a similar thing happened: it lost my sound card.
I thought, "oh no, not another reinstall?"
But this time I simply exited and replugged my sound card and it recognised it again. Phew.
But it looks like one or two VSTs are provoking a possible bug in Sonar.... anyway, thats my opinion.
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/28 06:56:22
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Would you mind telling what those VSTs are? If they cause such problems to you, they most likely have done it to someone else, too, and you might get a verification to your conclusions.
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/28 10:28:46
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Kalle Rantaaho
Would you mind telling what those VSTs are? If they cause such problems to you, they most likely have done it to someone else, too, and you might get a verification to your conclusions.
The one that crashed it was called "Sophia" , and the FreeAmp3 simply didn't show up.
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Re:Frustration - no sound coming out - why?
2012/12/28 10:37:02
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Kalle Rantaaho
Would you mind telling what those VSTs are? If they cause such problems to you, they most likely have done it to someone else, too, and you might get a verification to your conclusions.
The one that crashed it was called "Sophia" , and the FreeAmp3 simply didn't show up.
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