No sound in SONAR X1 Producer!

 the x1a patch is installd.. and motherboard inforamtaion
 and video information would be nice....

When I open SONAR X1 Pro, it says the following tracks and buses are currently assigned to a silent hardware output: Master. Just great... so I do to edit/preferences, and:

 
This is telling you that your master output is not assigned correctly. I don't see in your post where you checked to see if it is actually assigned to your Layla output.
 
Brian

You are selecting a lot of options which have nothing to do with your problem. I suggest you read the manual to get up to speed.

Stone House Studios is right. All you have to do is select the output for the Master Bus by using the Master bus output dropdown list. Select the Echo Audio output that you have the speakers or headphones connected to (for the Master bus output.) Then, you can assign all the audio track outputs to Master bus and hear your project.

If it's an existing project that worked before but is now complaining about a silent hardware

 
Typically, the warning that the OP describes concerns the fact that the output has not been selected for the master out - there's a drop down that lets you assign the output.  I've seen it many times before on projects just pulled into X1 - especially after I changed audio devices.
 
Brian
 
 
 

Middleman


You are selecting a lot of options which have nothing to do with your problem. I suggest you read the manual to get up to speed.

This is a useless response.  Why did you spend the time to write it?  If you have such wisdom, dare deign to share it with him versus the tired "Read the manual" admonition.  Just help or go contribute somewhere that it might be respectable.
 
Cold Chili, is your Master bus assigned to the Echo card's active output?  If so, then you have an issue.
Another way to check is to just assign one of the audio tracks directly to the audio card's output, and bypass the Master bus.
The Master bus setup is done that way mainly so you can affect all of the tracks at once in one main bus track, with a single volume control, pan and any effects that you add to that Master track.  I've seen projects that don't use a master track at all, using no additional effects and using just the main output sliders and pans for control of the final mix.  Basic, but it works.
 
Also, if I read your other wording correctly, you have a misunderstanding of how Sonar uses the outputs of your soundcard.  Each track by default is "stereo" (left-right).  Sonar will generally want to send its stereo outputs to one "set" (1-2 or 3-4 pair) of audio outputs.  It won't send to both from one track or one bus (Master is a bus).   Again, a track or a bus will be assigned to one audio output -- either the 1-2 or the 3-4 stereo outs.  This is the basic way it will operate.
 
If you want to have the same output to both output pairs, you could duplicate each track and send the original tracks to 1-2 and the duplicates to 3-4.  I understand that you are trying to deal with a funny speaker situation due to the cable length.  If your outputs to the speakers are using 1-2 for left and 3-4 for right, this duplication method would get your overall output to be stereo, but you have to try to understand how it is doing this (and how each of the outputs is wasting one side of its pair) so that you have the concept. 
 
But once your cables will reach correctly, you will find that you just use one audio pair (one output assignment) per track or bus for the most conventional way of using the system.  A second output (your 3-4) may not even be needed, as many just use a second output for sending to a separate mixer input(s) for affecting that output differently.  In modern-day software like Sonar, that kind of thing can be done in the program mixer with busses.
 
Jon
 
 

nothing to be concerned with.but a little more info would be nice. you need to set up an interface,if thats what your going to use,if your importing audio that wont be prob.i agree with scott you need to read up on trhe manual.go into edit/preferences.in the uper half of that menu chose playback recording options and work your way down..each setting hit the help button and read up on it.

thomasabarnes


Cold_Chili:

What's your status on this matter? Did you select an output for the Master bus?

Isn't it amazing how cluttered with crap a thread can get when the OP doesn't close the circle?
Personal attacks - bad advice - no advice disguised as advice!
 
Brian

I hear you Stone House Studios. It's rough around here, lately.

Hiya, Jim. Always good to see you around, which brings me to have to say: if these users (claiming X1 is so bad it's unusable) would go to a DAW builder like yourself, I'm very sure they will have useable systems (minus the known bugs.) :) Leaving the headaches of the troubleshooting to you (your company) and all that.

Hello I am new here with this program, and I have the same problem..... I try to open with a basic demo file, but I get the same message:
 following tracks and buses are currently assigned to a silent hardware [: Master.

When I tested this program first time I use an old 32 bit maskine complete without problem, but now on this new computer 64 bit with only this program installed I got this problem. I use an echo eudiofire pre 8 soundcard.

I also feel i try everything, it work on 32 bit, but not on this 64 bit.......

can someone help me? enybody from norway?

HMK

Cold_Chili


When I open SONAR X1 Pro, it says the following tracks and buses are currently assigned to a silent hardware output: Master.
Just great... so I do to edit/preferences, and:
AUDIO
Devices: I have checked all input and output groupings (in groups of 2) for my Echo Layla 3g audio interface.
Driver Settings: First option is the playback timing master. I can only check off one grouping of 2 here so I choose output echo 1-2. Unfortunely I can only play through one of my yamaha monitors right now due to the size of the trs cables I have and the distance between the outputs, limiting me to one of my speakers for now, as I have the other one plugged in beside it at the 3-4 grouping. Also, in my control panel I can only select one group of 2 as a default playback (also set to echo analog outputs 1-2). Is there any way to select them all? But I'd just like to mention that there is sound coming out of the one speaker in all other computer applications, just not SONAR! This also makes me wonder how the heck to use the other outputs for anything if both SONAR and my control panel won't let me!?!
My bit depth is set to 24, and my sampling rate is 48000.
Playback and recording: Driver mode is ASIO. I've also tried WDM. Dithering I've tried triangular, rectangular, Pow-r 1,2,3 (all the options). I have every box underneath checked, I've also tried unchecking them and several combinations. None of them seem as important as the other stuff though. These options are: Share drivers with other programs, Use multiprocessing engine, Use mmcss (Windows vista- win 7. and I have win 7 btw), Play effect tails after stopping, Always open all devices, Remove DC offset during recording, Disable input monitoring during playback.

So that's it for now. Any suggestions? I feel like I've tried everything, especially the important driver and device options.
Any help is much appreciated.

In FAQ the answer is:
Go to Options | Audio | Advanced. Put a check in the box that says "Always Use MME Interface" (or change the Driver Mode to MME-32bit) then press OK. Restart the program and let the Wave Profiler Test your hardware. Go back to Options | MIDI devices. You should now see "Microsoft GS Wavetable S/W synth" under outputs. Select this new device and click OK.

Options or Preference in edit menu.
It works very well.

This is not the way to do it if you have a better card that supports ASIO as so many do now.  This is an OK way to get sound out of an older computer, but Windows has been using WDM drivers now since XP.
Also, Micro Wavetable blows compared to all of the synths that come with Sonar.
 
Brian

HMK

Cold_Chili


When I open SONAR X1 Pro, it says the following tracks and buses are currently assigned to a silent hardware output: Master.
Just great... so I do to edit/preferences, and:
AUDIO
Devices: I have checked all input and output groupings (in groups of 2) for my Echo Layla 3g audio interface.
Driver Settings: First option is the playback timing master. I can only check off one grouping of 2 here so I choose output echo 1-2. Unfortunely I can only play through one of my yamaha monitors right now due to the size of the trs cables I have and the distance between the outputs, limiting me to one of my speakers for now, as I have the other one plugged in beside it at the 3-4 grouping. Also, in my control panel I can only select one group of 2 as a default playback (also set to echo analog outputs 1-2). Is there any way to select them all? But I'd just like to mention that there is sound coming out of the one speaker in all other computer applications, just not SONAR! This also makes me wonder how the heck to use the other outputs for anything if both SONAR and my control panel won't let me!?!
My bit depth is set to 24, and my sampling rate is 48000.
Playback and recording: Driver mode is ASIO. I've also tried WDM. Dithering I've tried triangular, rectangular, Pow-r 1,2,3 (all the options). I have every box underneath checked, I've also tried unchecking them and several combinations. None of them seem as important as the other stuff though. These options are: Share drivers with other programs, Use multiprocessing engine, Use mmcss (Windows vista- win 7. and I have win 7 btw), Play effect tails after stopping, Always open all devices, Remove DC offset during recording, Disable input monitoring during playback.

So that's it for now. Any suggestions? I feel like I've tried everything, especially the important driver and device options.
Any help is much appreciated.

In FAQ the answer is:
Go to Options | Audio | Advanced. Put a check in the box that says "Always Use MME Interface" (or change the Driver Mode to MME-32bit) then press OK. Restart the program and let the Wave Profiler Test your hardware. Go back to Options | MIDI devices. You should now see "Microsoft GS Wavetable S/W synth" under outputs. Select this new device and click OK.

Options or Preference in edit menu.
It works very well.

FWIW I had the same problem and this was what fixed it and I know very little. I am sill learning.