bitflipper
This is all reassuring to me, as I am in the process of building a new DAW running Win 8.1. So thanks for bringing up the subject. The Tranzport is still on the to-do list at the moment, but I'd be seriously bummed if I had to give it up.

Me too, I have one and have not tried it with the new DAW. I'm glad it works!
 
J

henkejs

bitflipper
This is all reassuring to me, as I am in the process of building a new DAW running Win 8.1. So thanks for bringing up the subject. The Tranzport is still on the to-do list at the moment, but I'd be seriously bummed if I had to give it up.

Yeah, I agree it would be hard to do without the Tranzport. Dave, you mention building a new DAW. Can I ask what you're doing for hardware? I would love to buy something from one of the custom DAW builders, but I'm afraid my budget is going to drive me to a commodity box like Dell or HP. If I had the expertise to select all my own components, I'd build my own but . . .

You can get a Studiocat Pro tower with upgrades for less than 1500 last time I checked. 1250 if you want to add your own drives, less I think if you already have your OS.
It matters... I think.
 
J

No one cares, but my old AlphaTrack works in 8.1 just fine. I can't plug it into the monitor though. I have to plug it into as USB2 port on the PC itself. No idea why (except the monitor supports USB 3).

I just put a new tower in my studio running Win 7 with Sonor 4. I installed the win 7 drivers for my Tranzport, and Sonor sees it but when I press play on the Tranzport , or some other buttons on the Tranzport it triggers a midi note of what ever midi channel is selected on my Sonor. Is Sonor 4 to old to work with the Tranzport in Win 7 ? Or can anyone help me with a solution ?

The Tranzport should have no problem with SONAR 4, which merely sees it as another MIDI controller. The problem is the Tranzport driver is too old for Windows 7. However, many people have been able to make it work in compatibility mode.
 
Tranzport also needs to be installed properly, of course. You should have a file named Tranzport.dll in \program files\cakewalk\shared surfaces. You should also have the Tranzport applet running in your task bar (check your startup options if not). You'll want to right-click on that applet and choose Native mode (close SONAR first).
 
That's all I remember, sorry. The last time I saw my beloved Tranzport was when I moved from XP to Win 8. It never worked again. (sob)
 

I am still using my TranzPort with many "current" apps including the latest SPlat (Lexi) x64 & REAPER 5.11 x64. So it surely should work with any previous versions. Going almost 10 years now and it has worked in every Win OS I've migrated to since XP (Win 7, 8, 8.1 & 10). Any OS's past Win 7, I've just made sure I had "Win 7" or maybe even "Vista" compatibility mode and "Administrator Privileges" enabled in the TranzPort installer properties page before installation. Many of us (users like "fireberd") have it working fine right now in Win 10.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...Works-OK-m3231149.aspx

That's certainly encouraging, BB. Unfortunately, I've not had such luck. I've tried every compatibility mode, but it either doesn't work at all or it bluescreens Windows.
 
If Frontier were to do the right thing, they'd release the source into the public domain and let somebody else update it. Or let some Chinese manufacturer, maybe Behringer, revive the product. I'd pay for a usable driver.

Billy Buck
I am still using my TranzPort with many "current" apps including the latest SPlat (Lexi) x64 & REAPER 5.11 x64. 

Same here. 

And Mixbus 3 64bit. And Studio One 3.
 
All in win 10 64bit. 
 
And my new Fader Port works in all four apps as well.

bapu 
And Mixbus 3 64bit. 

Oh, I did not even think about trying the TranzPort with Mixbus 3 64bit.........