what operating system are you using?  and are you running MC in Admin mode?

Vista 32bit

Not sure what you mean by admin mode - i am the administrator and logged in as such if thats what you meant?

When you click on the Icon to open MC.... RIGHT click it and a window opens with a list of things...one of those is "Run as Administrator"..... click it and run it. 

It does something... I forget exactly what.... but I do know it does something...... 


Try it,,, what's the worst that could happen....right? 

yes, try that.^

Hi - just tried that - it opened as administrator but not sure what else it did. It didn't correct any of the faults though.
 
One thing I have noticed. If I open csc twice i.e. two simple instrument tracks it zeros one of the volumes whenever i stop and start playing the song. Quite annoying. I am sure there is an explantion but it is not as simple as i first thought. 

What is the level of difficulty you would go through to get a USB interface and try it? 

Got a local sam ash or guitar center nearby? I'd drop in and pick up a focusrite or M-Audio which uses ASIO drivers and take it home and try it. They both do 45 day no questions asked full refunds if I don't miss my guess.

I'm still thinking it is that factory card and ASIO4ALL that is messing you up. 

I'm not convinced of that - I completely disagree.  I don't think ASIO4ALL has anything to do with this.  I use ASIO4ALL on my secondary DAW with a soundblaster!  it works flawlessly.   ASIO4ALL is simply a wrapper to wrap WDM drivers into ASIO driver mode in the host.  it cannot affect the volume or automation of one softsynth without affecting the volume of the entire soundcard. it is not possible.

Brandon - that sounds to me like an automation problem.  do you know where to find the automation?  on the CSC track which isn't working correctly, click on it to highlight it, then click on your middle mouse button.  that brings up the menu for the cursors.  click on the pull down that currently has CLIPS selected and choose AUTOMATION>VOLUME or AUTOMATION>MUTE

each one of those will bring up a different automation line.  is it set to -inf on either of those?

the next thing I'd do is insert a NEW INSTRUMENT track and then just copy the MIDI data from the first one to the new one and see if that works.

the next thing I'd check is the MIDI data itself.  you can go to VIEWS>MIDI DATA
that will bring up another window and it shows the MIDI data.  look for VOLUME entries in the MIDI DATA that show a value of 0.

and Brandon if none of that works, send me an email at beagle@beaglesound.com and I'll explain how you can send the project to me and I'll figure it out from there.

Hi I clicked on autonation volume and mute but i haave no idea what the automation line is you refer to. When I click on either of them the mute places a yellow square next to it and the volume places a green square next to it but nothing else. No sign of -inf anywhere.
 
Also when i go to 'views' i do not get an option to look at 'midi data'.
 
I am using MC6 so there shouldn't be any differnce in our respective menus but it seems there is?
 
 

Strange things such as volume changes (drops mainly or insturments just being zero'd) also occur if I stop start the play. It isnt the midi tracks as these play ok individually. I am wondering if i need to reload everything as it may be a virus has crept in somewhere and interfering with the sound elements on my pc.