The following drivers either do not support...

I just switched to XP from ME. I got the following message when starting up Sonar:

"The following drivers either do not support the current audio format or are in use by another application"

And it refers to my Tascam US-122 OUT. I didn't get this message in ME. But, I do have my onboard sound and the US-122 enabled in XP. I'm not sure if that matters, it seems to work for everything else, I can just select which one I want to use and XP seems to handle it. So I'm not sure if it's confused or if it's being used by another application. I'm not sure why it thinks that either as I have no other applications running.

What it amounts to is that my audio tracks aren't playing. How do I debug this? Any ideas?

I think I need the onboard sound. I'm not done testing all my software in the new OS. In ME, I couldn't run the racing simulator with the USB device as my sound. Disabling the onboard sound fixed the sitch! Thanks.

However, why? I have all these places in XP and Sonar to select which device to use. Why does this error happen?

Hi Glen. Thanks for the reply. Cool lookin' studio. Yeah, it must be in use by another application. I disabled the onboard and it fixed it for awhile. Reboot and it's back (onboard still disabled - I made a hardware profile). Change a couple settings in control panel->sounds and it's fixed... once again for awhile. Start and Restart Sonar and it's fixed... for awhile. :) I don't consciously have any programs running and using my Tascam US-122 USB device. Not sure what process might be using it. Maybe it's the onboard's sound control in the task tray...

O.K., check this out. I unplugged the Tascam from the USB port and plugged it back in to see if that would fix it. XP wouldn't recognize it. It was like nothing got plugged in. So I tried another USB port and XP resintalled the drivers again. I guess it does that separately for each port? They are all onboard. Well, anyway, after that it seems that I have to unplug the Tascam and plug it back into the MIDI port. Then I can select it in the input and output drivers in Sonar and it works. For awhile... LOL This one is really wierd. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It seems that if I can get Sonar to start once without displaying that message, it works fine and will continue to work even if I exit Sonar and restart. Wow, I'm boggled with this one. Any other thoughts?

Hi! I just bought myself a HP/Compaq NX7000 and use it with my US-122
and Sonar. I also got this error message. And after some work I found out
that my HP NX7000 came with onboard sound engine SoundMax and had
installed a "SoundMax MIDI Softsynth". This is really just a program that
are using the default audio-out device. And in the Control Panel I had
selected the US-122 as my primary audio device. In Sonar if I used
this "SoundMax MIDI Softsynth" as MIDI device I just got trouble, because
it was trying to also use the US-122. So the error warning was allright in that
it was saying that another program was using the US-122 device.
I deinstalled the SoundMax in Contol Panel-->Add/Remove Programs.
And with just the US-122 installed om my laptop everything is allright.
Later I reinstalled the SoundMax but I did i trick to not install the SoftSynth.
I run the install program and when it came with the message "do you want
to install..." I used WindowsExplorer to make a copy of the uncompressed
files and store then to another directory. Then I canceled the install
program and took a look at the uncompressed files/folders.
I saw a folder called something like "Softsynth" and I just deleted this.
Then I run the Setup program and it installed everything exept the SoftSynth.
I had problem to disable the SoundMax SoftSynth earlier so this was just
what I hoped would happen. So fare everything is no allright. Sorry for
my bad english. have fun!