Suddenly SHS7 XL Will Not Play Wav Files. Can Not Select my Emu 0202 USB Audio Recorder.

Hello Everyone,
  Suddenly my SHS7 XL will not play any wav files. I mean they scroll but no audible sound. My wav playback device is my Creative Audigy 2 Soundcard.

  Also when I want to record audio, Cakewalk will not let me select my Emu 0202 USB Audio Recorder. It shows in my select audio input select list, since it is my default audio recording device. I can highlight the Emu 0202 and click it, but then SHS hangs, never fully selects it and puts a check next to it.

  I have the same problem in all my other Cakewalk software including Sonar X1 Essentials.

  All midi recording and playback functions are fine.

   Vista and Creative and Emu all say the device drivers are fine. I have been using this same conbination of Creative Soundcard and Emu USB Audio device with Cakewalk Software for a few years now, under both XP and Vista.

   Is there a way to run the Device Driver setup again in all my Cakewalk Software without having to re install the software? Is there any kind of repair install?

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.
Happy Composing
MidiVox

Hi All, Dave
     Thanks for your comment but the Emu USB is an audio recorder only. It is not a soundcard.
Happy Composing
MidiVox

midivox


Hi All, Dave
    Thanks for your comment but the Emu USB is an audio recorder only. It is not a soundcard.
Happy Composing
MidiVox

That's not correct.  the EMU USB is a soundcard.  you can use it exclusively if you want.  I have an external "audio recorder" also, and I have disabled my onboard soundcard and use it exclusively.  they are fully functional soundcards. 
 
(side NOTE:  Greg- you can't find an EMU-0202 USB soundcard on the internet?  They have been discontinued, but they did exist, although not for a long period of time.  http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15186&nav=technicalSpecifications )
 
having said that, it's not necessarily something I would say you would have to do if you didn't want to.  I chose to disable my onboard sound because windows kept setting it as default regardless of what I wanted.
 
however, you may have a problem where the drivers of the two cards are conflicting.  if your system has been running for years like this then it's possible that windows updated one of the drivers for you recently and the new driver is more "aggressive" than previous versions.  if this is what happened, you could try fixing this by returning to a windows RESTORE point before this started happening.
 
if you don't want to do that, I can try to help you get windows and SHS happy with each's own perspective soundcard with your system.  if that's the way you want to TRY (I can't guarentee anything, but we can definitely try), then let me know by giving me the following information:
 
go to OPTIONS>AUDIO and look in each of the tabs of that window for this information:
PLAYBACK and RECORDING DEVICES = ?
DRIVER MODE = ?
 
also, please list what options are available from the pull down list of the PLAYBACK and RECORDING DEVICES

the OP is just mistaken is all.  there's no such thing as an EMU-0202 that doesn't have outputs.

Hello Again

    The Emu 0202 was sometimes called an audio interface and other times a USB Recorder, depending on where it was advertised and who was selling it. I got mine at Frys years ago. When it first came out for XP. Vista did not exist yet.

   Here is the information on my SHS 7XL Audio Tab Settings. These setting are with my O202 turned off, which means SHS does not see it at all.

Playback Timing Master Creative ASIO.  No other choices.
Record Timing Master. Blank with no pull down choices.
Driver Mode ASIO
Driver Choices. WDM, WASI, MME, ASIO

Open all available devices is not checked. I checked it.
Wave files DO PLAYBACK today.
Sample Rate 48 K, default for Creative Cards.

Closed SHS, turned on Emu, then reopened SHS
Changed Driver to WDM, then Cakewalk run the Driver Profile Setup.
And found Creative, SB Audigy, and Emu. Set default sample rate to 44K.

Now my Playback and Recording Timing Masters are SB Audigy
And I can choose EMU 0202 also. Also in a couple of other pull downs.

Now I can set an audio track input to the Emu and set it to mono or stereo from the track pull down and a Recording Text worked, although the recording volume seems low and the audio input meters are not following the mic input but the playback of the projects other track.

I think what happened is when I installed new software a couple of months ago, it installed an ASIO 2 For All Driver, which made itself the default for all my music software and then almost every piece of audio software would not work anymore.

So I had to uninstall the ASIO 2 for all driver. Some software reset itself up automaticly with correct drivers and I thought Cakewalk had also.

How do I get the input meters to work with the mic instead of the project playback?
Do I need to make the Emu 0202 the pull down choice everytime it is offered as a choice in the Cakewalk Audio Settings?

Thanks
Happy Recording and Composing
MidiVox

Ok, thanks guys. After I have time to test Sonar X1 and my older Cakewalk Home Studio will post back. I am just going to set them to the same driver settings.

Happy Composing and Recording
MidiVox

Hi Everyone, Greg
    The Audio Input meters are working now. Following whatever record track is armed.
    Yes, What You Hear on this Creative card also.

     My new problem last night. Every software synth recorded and played back out of tune. I have never even heard of that problem before.

     The only 0202 software is a driver icon that lets you set the sample rate and mono or stereo. If there was a mixer it only worked in XP and I never used it.

    I use a normal mic plugged into the back of the 0202.

Happy Composing and Recording
MidiVox

Patchmix only shiped with the PCI versions of the E-MU sound cards. The USB models used a completely different interface.
The 0202 interface is extremely simplified, as noted.
I received a MS update 5/11 that messed with my E-MU 0404PCI. Meters worked, but no sound. This has happened a few times, and a system restore corrected it. This may be the root of your problem.
If you insist on using both devices, you will need to stick with WDM. ASIO only allows one device at at time.

The tuning thing has me baffled. I have the same questions as Greg.

Hi Greg, Robert, All
    This morning I did disk cleanup, ran creative auto update. I load in any Cakewalk project and when I record on a new track with any of the soft synths including trying their built in keyboards or external midi controllers they are all not of tune with the other project tracks.

   Maybe a quarter tone, just always flat or sharp. So I am using Band in the Box Virtual Keyboard Wizard with the Creative Synth A and Synth B to record melodies.

   The pain in the butt I am doing some projects with deadlines, and I really wanted to use SHS Soft Synths.

   My new last Xmas version of Band In the Box came with Real Band and it defaults to using Cakewalk Roland TSS software synth. So I will have to test it there, outside of Cakewalk.

   I got TSS working in Real Band the other day, after a few tries. I can also test any plug in versions of Cakewalk Soft Synths there also. And in my Magix programs.

  I will reinstall my Yamaha Midi Interface Driver also.

  I will try to test Sonar X1 tonight. After I finish this new song.

  Band In The Box does not write to the registry at all.

  I do all Windows Updates Manually, and never update any audio or video drivers.

  Yeah, I did part of an update on 5 11 also. I will try going back to that restore point.

  If only one software synth was out of tune I would reinstall that one.

  Do not know enough yet to consider wiping SHS 7XL. Would a reinstall wipe all my software synths also?

  Thanks for thinking about this very rare problem.

Happy Composing and Recording
MidiVox