Audio problem: can't "Start" engine

Heckxx,

Being somewhat of a plugin addict, I've installed some that flat crashed SONAR every time or would ge the anomaly you're talking about. If you can locate the .dll file that refers to the product you deleted by going to start and search from your Windows start menu, you might be able to remove it that way. There may be several instances of the .dll file on your system, however. You might look in the Steinberg folder in your program files, even if you don't have any Steinberg products installed. Or you can reset your locations that SONAR looks for your VST's in, removing any that refer to the location of your Analog Factory program.

This is all assuming you have uninstalled the complete Analog Factory program from the system already. If not, do that first, then remove any Analog Factory folders from your hard drive. Then set a system restore point in Accessories\system tools\system restore.

After your restore point is completed, go to start/run/regedit, highlight "My Computer", click on the toolbar under file and do a find on Analog Factory. It will go to the first entry for that program in your registry. Delete it. Then press F3 <find next> and delete all keys from the registry that pertain to that file.

WARNING: Only do this if you are extremely careful. You can fry your system if you delete the wrong files inadvertently, and there is no recycle bin for them. Gone is gone.

Reboot your system. If you have been successful in removing the file and the registry entries and all .dll associated with it, SONAR should come up and when you launch that project, it should just tell you it can't find that program, but you should be able to run the rest of your project.

Then, if all is well, you should be able to reinstall the Analog Factory stuff, restart SONAR <Which will then rescan for plugins, detecting your program>, and then relaunch the project. It should come up normally.

Yup, it's a pain. But it should work for you.

If you screwed up, you'll have to boot to safe mode in Windows <F8 after your BIOS screen disappears> and go to system restore and restore to the point before you edited the registry, which will restore your system to what it was before you edited it.

Hope that helps, buddy!

Cheers...

Open the project in SAFE MODE (by holding SHIFT while you click on FILE->OPEN).
It will prompt you - one by one - whether to load a plugin or not.

YOu could NOT load that one plugin, delete it's instance from the project, resave (do save as, and use a new name just to be safe). Then close and reopen that new project.

ORIGINAL: Heckxx

Thanks...I guess I was hoping there was some sort of easy way to fix it, but I guess not, lol. I did reinstall AnalogFactory to an older version (if any of you use this synth, DO NOT get the new version, it crashes whenever you open a jupiter preset), but I ended up just copying and pasting all of the tracks into a new file.

This analog factory synth is such a pain, I should never have bought it -_- ...and its the only synth I have with a dam dongle