Totally lost

I installed Sonar X1 some time ago, but cannot get sound out of it. I am new to this. I have the Edirol FA-101 plugged into the firewire port of my Gateway computer and Edirol MA-7A monitors in the FA-101. Because of other pressing concerns I have not had time and have not touched my system in months but now want to get things running. When I load that "floating" file I get no sound and when it loads I tells me that "The following tracks and buses are currently assigned to a silent hardware output. (and so on)" The track identified is "Master." I click on help but I have no idea what the original tracks of "Floating" were. Help! Totally lost.
 
Thank you.
 
 
a few years ago I got a simpler version of Cakewalk to work on a small laptop so this is really irritating. The manual isn't helping.
 

OK - while I am waiting to find out about the 'floating project', perhaps I can get you up and going with sound output.
 
Let's try this:
 
1.  Start by making sure your audio interface drivers are installed and up to date.  Check your manufacturer's site and download the latest drivers for your operating system, and install them per their instructions.
 
2.  Now, before even firing up Sonar, make sure things play properly through your interface, using Windows Media Player, or YouTube, or whatever, where your audio interface is set to be the audio device.
 
3.  IF you are getting sound out through your audio interface, it is time to try things out in Sonar.
 
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So, to try it all out in Sonar, 
 
1.  Firstly, open the interface program for your audio interface, so that you can obtain the settings for it, as you will need them for Sonar.  My suggestion is that you start with a Sample Rate of 44.1, and an ASIO Buffer Size of 128.  PLEASE NOTE, it is recommended that anytime you change settings on your audio interface that you power it down and back on again, to get everything reloaded with the new settings.
 
2.  Fire up Sonar.  When the Quick Start dialog box opens, close it.
 
3.  Hit the letter 'P' to get into Preferences.
 
4.  Before doing anything, let's make sure you are using the ASIO drivers that got installed with your audio interface, so click on Plyback and Recording, under Audio, in Preferences.  If the Driver Mode is not set to ASIO, set it to ASIO, then click Apply.
 
5.  OK, now click on Preferences>Audio>Devices, and make sure your audio interface is selected for both inputs and outputs - all of them that are available to select.  Again, click Apply.
 
6.  Now, click on Preferences>Audio>Driver Settings.  Sonar should have set your input and output timing master values to that of your audio interface.  Make sure your Sample Rate MATCHES the setting currently set for your audio interface.  Again, click Apply.
 
7.  Now, click on Preferences>File>Audio Data and set your Record Bit Depth to 24 bits for now, as a starting point.  I recommend Sample Rate of 44.1, ASIO Buffer Size of 128, and Recording Bit Depth of 24-bits to be a reasonable starting point for it all.  Click Apply.
 
At this point, things should be set up for you to try out a project to get sound output from Sonar, running through your audio interface.
 
So, now try the following:
 
1.  From within Sonar, click File>New, and name a new Normal project - perhaps Audio Test, or something like that, and click OK.
 
2,  Once in the project, right-click in the Track Pane and insert an audio track.  
3.  Now, click on the number to the left of the audio track, to select it.  (the number will turn blue).
4.  With the track selected, click File>Import>Audio, and choose some MP3 or WMA song from your system.  Sonar will import it to the audio track that was selected.  While it is importing, you will see a progress bar under the Transport Bar.
5.  When that finishes importing, hit play, and you should get sound from the song playing through Sonar through your audio interface.
 
IF the above worked, please post back with an indication that it did.
 
If it did NOT work, also post that back, and tell me what happened when you hit Play.
 
Bob Bone
 
 
 

Bob look in your X1 Producer downloads, Floating_Cori_Yarckin_v2.zip. I seem to recall some issues with the original version hence the v2. It is a huge project over 1GB, probably not the best to use as a starter project to learn on.

Yeah, I remembered that one - I don't have it any longer.
 
Bob Bone