sure, everybody's back at work with nothing to say

Yeah, work stinks. Which is why I need to become a famous rock star!! :)

Welcome Billabong! Have you been through our initiation program yet?

(just kidding...nice to have you among us!)

As long as it doesn't involve sheep, latex, and someone's Aunt Edna

[Gulp!] Er, ... sounds a bit like last weekend. You weren't in Miami for New Year's, were you? That is not me in the video ...

Welcome to the forum. Say, would you like to trade some tutorials for ... well, i don't know, perhaps your mini-DV archive?

This forum is great! Anybody know where the P5 t-shirts are?

have a good one
3Eo

I have a couple of those Cakewalk shirts! They are very comfortable to wear while working on P5, but they can shrink pretty crazily the first time you wash them if you aren't careful.

But the P5 shirts... I have heard rumors that they are much more comfortable, and they NEVER shrink. I've also heard rumors that famous musicians do quality control for them (and consequently place the "Inspected By" stickers on them in the most annoying of locations after personally trying them on). Oh, and one more thing: each P5 shirt is used to shine a platinum record before being mounted on a commercially-successful artist's wall. After all, P5 actually means "Platinum 5hirt", from what I have been told.

Yes, back to work, indeed.

P5 actually means "Platinum 5hirt", from what I have been told.

Whew! That dispels the rumor that had been circulating involving a handful of repetitions of a certain natural bodily function. I am ... relieved, so to speak.

The closest that I ever came to the holy grail was at the last Sonar tour stop. The rep had run out of schwag, and gave away some business cards instead with his e-mail address on them. The "winners", chosen at random, were given a choice of a Sonar t-shirt, or the elusive P5 t-shirt. I'm still kicking myself for not jumping one of the five cardholders afterwards in the parking lot. In a fair fight, I think that I could've taken the chick ...

Thanks b rock. :)

I do have one itsy bitsy problem with P5. Should I make it a new topic, or just ask away?

OK, here goes:

If a VSTi doesn't work, are there any magic registry settings to change to try to make it work? I read somewhere something about a "static buffer" verses "variable buffer". But could not find the setting anywhere.

I have the EMU Emulator-X VSTi. Works fine in Cubase, even loads up in FruityLoops. But P5 will have none of it. Just crashes & says "streaming engine could not be initialized. Driver version mismatch". Everything (driver, software, vst) is up to date.
I've heard no repsonse yet from the EMU camp....

I like laid-back forums. And I'm a little "out there" myself. :) I'm sure I'll fit in. Or out.

I haven't got any registry magic for you in this case; we'll have to hope that Nick Haddad from Cakewalk jumps back in on this. After all, I'm sure that he'd have mentioned something about this, considering the EMU installation at Cakewalk HQ. When I saw nothing else about your problem, I assumed that you had worked that out.

I did research the card and included VSTis at one point, but I don't have any hands-on experience with them to draw on. All I can offer is to try Reset All on the second screen of the VST Adapter, and try again. Sometimes a weird sequential ticking and unticking of the Rescan options on that screen will get a stubborn plugin to co-operate, like Reset All, Rescan Existing Plugins, then Rescan Failed Plugins, with only one option ticked on each pass. You might check out the Properties of the Emulator after it scans; sometimes I have to disable Delay Compensation to settle Project5 down with some plugs. They'll be the same options that are available in the second screen Folder defaults, but intended for that plugin only.

I assume that you've tried a re-install of the Emu software. I wish that I could be more help with this. Let me research the error messages and see if something pops up. That's a shame; it looks like a spectacular piece of code.

BTW: DA, don't think that I haven't noticed that you're using the same animated smiley to refer to both me and Fruity Loops ...

Thanks b rock & 3 eyed otter (love that name!). I'll try looking for that "Extra buffer" setting.
If not, I may try to un-install, and re-install just the 1.0 version of the VSTi. Although 1.5 adds some nice changes, I'd rather have it work in P5.

Later,
Bill

Well, I emailed Cakewalk tech support, and their reply was "We have not tested that VSTi, contact EMU", which I did, but have not heard back from them (EMU).

3IO, the card at CompUSA is only the regular 1212, minus the Emulator X VSTi. Which, isn't that big of a deal it seems for P5 users. On it's own, the 1212 is a real nice card. Two analog ins, two out, coax and optical S/PDIF in & out, and you can change the optical to ADAT.

Contacted EMU, they said it's a Cakewalk issue. They (EMU) claim they've successfully wrapped the VSTi and used it.
So, another email to Cakewalk for me.
I may try uninstalling the whole works (P5 and Emulator X), but that's as far as I'll go. I just formatted not too long aga, and I'm not doing it again.

Only other thought is I installed Project 5 to my D: drive, yet the VST's & the Cakewalk VST Adapter software live on my C drive. I installed P5 to D because there is alot more room there for samples & whatnot. I doubt (hope) that's not it, since other VSTs worked, and they are on C:\
What about this "BufMatch.ax" file under Shared Plugins? What's that for?

Yep, got the latest 4.4.2
I just uninstalled & re-installed P5 to C: (where demo was originally) I think the demo may have left some stuff behind. So I downloaded DXMan for AnalogX and checked my installed DXis, and there were some duplicates (also some leftover from n-track & some "DirectShow Gateway" that's missing) So, I trudged through the registry and cleaned it up best I could. Re-installed P5, updated, and still no luck.
Will try uninstalling Emulator X next. Which suk-diddly-ucks because of their copy protection/registration/soul-castraition riggamaroll.
Thanks 3Eo!

Thanks rabeach. That was something else I was going to try, another VST wrapper. It makes more sense though, to ask EMU rather then just try ones willy-nilly.

heheheh...thanks Digital Aura. :)

So, to continue with my plugin plight - I couldn't wait, and proceeded with Operation "Willy-Nilly". First on my short list, I downloaded DirectXiezer. I ran it, and it wrapped the Emulator X I'd sat 99% perfect. Fired up P5, inserted......hold breath....it works! The only bump is sometimes when I delete the track, I get a "File Not Found" error from the Emu VSTi. Could be because it's a demo, who knows?

Now, I'm at a quandry. Do I shell out the $49 for DirectXizier? I haven't found any others, so this may be the route to take.

Kinda beat, though, that I just shelled out $200 for P5, and it was supposed to include VST support (one of the main reasons I got it). I know, I know, nothing is perfect...can't guarantee it will work with every VST...etc. etc...

Next trick will be trying to figure out how to access all 16 patches, since it's a multi-voice synth. ;)

Thanks for everyone's help!