Can you play WAV files outside of Sonar? Verify that windows "sees" the soundcard and can talk to it first. If it can, create a new song, no busses, just one mono audio track. Can it record? Can it play back to the soundcard? Start simple, work from there. Best of luck, ed

ed97643


Can you play WAV files outside of Sonar? Verify that windows "sees" the soundcard and can talk to it first. If it can, create a new song, no busses, just one mono audio track. Can it record? Can it play back to the soundcard? Start simple, work from there. Best of luck, ed

If songs play outside of Sonar, I would maybe import an MP3 to an audio track and see if that plays - that's pretty benign, and then move on to attempt recording.


Bob Bone

Cheers for the info, I'll give things another go. Uninstalled the program and get an error message towards the end of the re-install:

C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\Null Proxy.dll

Unable to register the DLL/OCX:RegSvr32 failed with exit code 0xC0000005  

Probably had this the first time round and just ignored it - but this is supposed to be an Admin issue but I started the installer using 'Run As Administrator'. I see there are a couple of other threads of people who have had this problem who haven't had a fix supplied.

I have an Alienware laptop with two hard disks - the C: drive is a flash disk with the Windows 7 partition on it and the other drive is a 500G with data - this has a couple of partitions on it where there is one for the music. 8G of memory and i7-3630QM processor. 

 

Completed the installation and ran manually 

C:\Windows\system32>regsvr32.exe "C:\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\NullProxy.dll"

And this time I've just put in my licence key and will will install the patch before having a play with anything

OK - it's back in the default install state, and things are playing happily. So the things I did last time that may be an issue were the soundcard itself (Tascam US-144Mk2) being plugged into a USB 3.0 port (though that shouldn't have been quite so catastrophic) or changing the MIDI values to cope with missed notes during playback. Might make a backup of the drive and settings first though before progressing with these changes. All the program files are in their own C:\Cakewalk folder so should not need to have any administrator issues.

A couple of queries though:
Are there any issues with Sonar being run off a flash disk?
What are safe settings for MIDI buffers/channels?

If you are dropping MIDI notes on playback try 500ms buffers.

scook


If you are dropping MIDI notes on playback try 500ms buffers.

...that is: " MIDI buffers - Prepare using xxx ms buffers"

Just as a sidenote (I searched on similar problems in here recently and couldn't find a solution).    I recently started getting dropped MIDI notes and really bad keystroke latency in synths.  I thought the drivers on my soundcard were up to date but when I checked they weren't, updating them cured the problems.

karmadillo


OK - it's back in the default install state, and things are playing happily. So the things I did last time that may be an issue were the soundcard itself (Tascam US-144Mk2) being plugged into a USB 3.0 port (though that shouldn't have been quite so catastrophic) or changing the MIDI values to cope with missed notes during playback. Might make a backup of the drive and settings first though before progressing with these changes. All the program files are in their own C:\Cakewalk folder so should not need to have any administrator issues.

A couple of queries though:
Are there any issues with Sonar being run off a flash disk?
What are safe settings for MIDI buffers/channels?

If things are working now, yu might consider updating the subject line of your thread to add something like: 'Resolved' - that lets folks know everything get fixed and can save folks from reading all of the posts only to find out at the end that it's all working. :)


Bob Bone