Hello

This might be a n00bish question, but I'm having this problem with Sonar 8 prod. edition. I have an EMU USB 4040 audio interface (ASIO) which I'm using with Sonar. The problem is that I cannot use any other audio applications at the same time and watching for example a tutorial video means shutting down sonar and shutting and restarting my interface and all the related programs. This is a bit annoying so I'd like to know if there is a way around this. Any help appreciated

J

Let the onboard soundcard do the media stuff.
I think the EMU hijacks windows sound, so reset to the onboard card.

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Hi,

Is there and option to share with other clients in the EMU's control panel?

Don't have an EMU, but had similar problem with a DMX 6 Fire and switching that on solved it.

Try Options - Audio- Adavnced - tick 'share drivers with other programs' box.

"share drivers" doesnt work, hasnt ever in PE8.

This may be an EMu limitation if you set up your EMu to play window sounds and sonar.

"share drivers" doesn't work, hasn't ever in PE8.

for you, maybe, but i sure does work. I think it depends on how your drivers for your sound card where written. I think you need to look inside your EMu manual to see if there's a switch or button to activate. My motu will play pc sounds and sonar projects.
Cj

Hey Zoomoo,

1.Go into control panel and select sound. Then under the tabs at the top, select recording. In this tab you'll see your soundcard (make sure this is ticked) then press properties at the bottom of the tab.

2. In the properties view go to the advanced tab, you'll see two ticked boxes at the bottom of the window. One of them will say " Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"

3. I think you know what to do next.

Hope this helps

Rod

After investing in a new Windows 7 PC, I was getting this issue as well, and E-Mu gave the same solution as Rod. The cause was not this, but was in fact caused by incompatible sample rates between Windows and the E-Mu card.

Microsoft's error message ("The device is being used by another application. Please close any devices that are playing audio to this device and try again") is plainly irrelevant, and has resulted in a lot of head scratching. Looking around the internet I'm not the only one with this issue, so I'm posting here so that others may benefit.
What I found was that Windows 7 was defaulting to 48KHz and Sonar ASIO defaults to 44.1KHz, setting PatchMix to that when it does. Therefore Sonar plays through PatchMix at 44.1KHz, but Windows does not. I fixed this by going to Control Panel --> Hardware and Sound -->Manage Audio Devices, selecting the Advanced tab of the properties of the Emu card, and changing the sample rate to 44.1KHz. This keeps the sample rate compatable with that used in previous projects that I had imported from my old system.

This probably seems simple and obvious to some, but matching these sample rates is something that doesn't get done very often, and is therefore easily forgotten about.

Hope this helps

Douglas

I had the 0404 and it's not a great sharer. If you've got an internal card then set that to do the windows stuff and leave the 0404 exclusively to Sonar.

I had the 0404 and it's not a great sharer

Those damn selfish cards