No Playback.....

MC4 has stopped working. No playback or recording in either new or existing project. Now matter where I put the NowTime cursor, nothing happens when I hit the play button or the space bar. No sound but more importantly MC doesn't advance through the project. It just sits there.

I checked Options|Audio|Driver all looks fine. Also reran the Wave profiler then closed and reopened MC. Same results. I also clicked the Run/Stop audio engine button on the transport bar and still no results. Is that button supposed to be a colour other than grey is the audio engine is running ?

Thanks in advance

Pete

I considered that too but no other audio programs are open. I even rebooted my PC and tried MC again. Still not 'rolling' playback. I can play audio files in Win Media Player and ACID 4.0. Hmmmm.....

well - I've had this problem you're describing before and it was due to something getting corrupted in the project. I had to manually move the wave files into a new project and re-do all of my settings before I could get it to play again.

BIG pain in the A.....................nkle.

My latency slider is grey'd out/disabled !!!
That can't be good !!!!

Nope..
Driver Mode = WDM/KS

Yes, I was able to change driver modes. I don't have the ASIO driver but it let me change to that. Saved / restarted etc. I then switched to MME mode then saved / restarted etc. Still no playback.

try downloading and installing ASIO4ALL (google it)
then change to ASIO driver mode
then restart MC

see if that helps.

I assume you mean you installed ASIO4ALL - ASIO itself is not something you can install - it's a driver "mode." also - the onboard soundcard won't necessarily work in ASIO mode at all- even with ASIO4ALL. sometimes they will, sometimes they won't.

what I was suggesting you do is download and install ASIO4ALL and select the ASIO4ALL Soundblaster inputs and outputs, not the onboard soundcard.

the audio engine button should be on when you are ABLE to use MC for playback and recording - but it will be off if there's a problem with the drivers. that's why I hadn't addressed that - it indicates a problem with your drivers if it's off.

uninstall the program, reeboot pc. then reinstall MC again. All of your songs will still be right where they were. Only the program itself will go away.
I have had this problem before too.
I think the MC program has lost its inner-connect with your sound card. Those are the syptoms of " No Sound Card" A fresh install is a good place to start.

None, except to go back and check every setting: Record and playback timing masters, drivers, buffers, driver mode. Make sure the box to "Share Drivers With Other Programs" is checked. Or maybe you need to uncheck that box? Make sure the panic button is unclicked, although I'm not sure what that does.
Has the work computer's hard drive been defragged lately? Is the hard drive getting full? Do you have the Google Toolbar For Windows installed? If it's in your Add/Remove Programs list, maybe you can remove it. That worked for me, once.

great! WTG greg!