Help!!!

no - not without more information. what have you tried to do and what doesn't it do? are you getting error messages? are you trying to record? audio or midi? what is your computer setup? what soundcard do you have?

we can't help without you giving us something to go on.

If you look up the questions that I have posted from when I started off over the last 3 months, you will get all the possible info on all the basics you need to get you up and away.

I can assure you that I have asked every dumb question in the book, and these good folks have put me on the right track. (yes even all the embarrassingly simple ones you dread asking!)

ok, that's a start, but we still need a little more info. from my questions above:

what have you tried to do and what doesn't it do? are you getting error messages? what are you trying to record? microphone? guitar?

Hmm... it wont let me make my own past for some reason. Gregy, you may have answered my question anyways. Here's my problem. Would this also be one of these software synthesizer issues?

Just bought Music Creator a couple days ago. For some reason, no sound will play straight from the program. I opened up some of the sample files to make sure i wasn't doing anything wrong myself and the sample files appear to be playing, but again, no audio is played. Out of curiosity, I saved some of the pre-existing files as midi files to see if they would still work then, and sure enough, when playing them as midi files outside of Music Creator, they worked fine (the downtown song is kinda nifty). I am running windows Vista (been trying to repent), 4GB ram, 2200 pentium processor, and have nothing special for a sound card yet. I'm just running off the stock on board sound drivers that came with the computer (i believe it was realtek). Plus, when I check my midi devices through the program, nothing shows up and the list is empty. I would expect that at least my on board sound card would appear. In the program, it says something to the extent of "driver is either not compatible or is in use" and lists my drivers that it doesn't like.

No audio at all from the samples. Only when I save them in a different format do I get to hear them. Havn't been home too much lately, so I havn't had any time to go through any tutorials yet. I had time to install the software, click a few buttons and find out that nothing makes noise and head back to work. Sadly i'm not at home right now, i'm at work, so i can't try that one immediately. Once I get home, i'll definately give that a shot. Thanks.

Thank you very much for the help. Once I get home i'll implement your suggestions and let you know if it worked. You've got me excited to get off work now :P

NO - don't change your AUDIO OUTPUTS to try to get a softsynth to play. AUDIO OUTPUTS and the TIMING MASTERS are for the soundcard.

and no, if you don't have a MIDI keyboard or drum machine connected to your computer then nothing will show up in the MIDI DEVICES list (except the MS GS wavetable IF it's available). so if you don't have a MIDI DEVICE, then you don't have anything to check!

change to MME driver mode:
OPTIONS>AUDIO>ADVANCED>DRIVER MODE = MME
close MC
restart MC
let the wave profiler run

NOW try to insert a softsynth into tutorial #8 example file and see if it plays

Ok, so i've tried everything and it didn't work. I think my next step would be to upgrade my soundcard, like you said Guitarhacker. Hopefully that works. I might have a spare, good soundcard around here somewhere. i'll see if i can dig it up and save myself some money.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=433346

Copy and paste the above link into your address bar - theres heaps of stuff on getting set up, what problems you may have etc. Some very knowledgeable bloke posted it a while ago.