PeteNova
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Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
I installed the 6.2 patch and "Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available" came up in a window. I backed up my files, deleted Sonar 6 PE, reinstalled it, reinstalled the patch and the same window comes up every time I open up Sonar. Does anyone (Cakewalk?) know what this means and what I should do? Thanks-Pete
post edited by PeteNova - 2007/01/31 12:07:58
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PeteNova
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 11:49:15
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Does anyone have a clue about this? Am I the only one that's had this particular problem on install?
pete
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:02:14
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Sounds like there might be a problem with your def file. I would check that first.
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:02:48
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ORIGINAL: PeteNova
Does anyone have a clue about this? Am I the only one that's had this particular problem on install?
pete
Do you mean "defining instruments and names" dialog box? I've never edited the master.ins directly, I have always done it this way. Anyway, works fine on my 6.2. HTH
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:03:13
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Hey Pete....
I'm still on 5.02PE but didn't I read that the Sonar pathc was changing 'folder' locations during some of the install processes?
If so, maybe the MASTER.INS file is in an incorrect folder since you've done the patch?
I hope this helps and is not a waste of bandwidth.
Good luck
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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:07:59
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Launch SONAR once with the shift key held down. This will force a resync of your application data to the current user (you will see a prompt on launch).
See if that fixes the problem.
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PeteNova
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:33:53
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Thanks Noel,
That fixed the problem. Now I'm excited to check out the update.
pete
ps-I dig the music on Ramona's site..nicely done.
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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 12:57:14
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Cool glad it worked. And thanks!
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/01/31 13:03:19
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This looks like Sticky material... ORIGINAL: Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Launch SONAR once with the shift key held down. This will force a resync of your application data to the current user (you will see a prompt on launch).
See if that fixes the problem.
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/02/01 10:47:48
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I've got the same problem: "Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available" I've tried opening Sonar with shift held down but that didn't fix the problem. Just to clarify, which folder should master.ins be stored in? Pete (This only started after installing the 6.2 update to the Producer Edition)
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RE: Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2007/09/29 19:11:23
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That was the exact fix, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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Re:Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2009/09/01 19:20:32
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Well done Noel Borthwick...The shift key fix really worked well..Great info, Thanks,Tony
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Re:Help Cakewalk! Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available
2012/09/06 23:34:38
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Great Job Noel Borthwick, The Shift key really worked, thanks a lot!!!
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