Recent content by Brian Ferrell

Does anyone know of an effects expression pedal that will allow you to manually pan left to right and right to left by moving the pedal up and down? For example, pressing down on the pedal would move the sound left in the stereo spectrum and moving it upwards would move the sound to the right...

Although I'm posting this as a new thread, it is actually a continuance of my last thread about lightning destroying my computer and STAudio DSP24 soundcard. I was never able to find a replacement DSP24 and bought a new Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 firewire interface. This interface only uses ASIO...

After a lightning strike took out the southbridge of my old ASUS board, it also fried my DSP24. I really liked this card that I used in conjunction with the DAC/ADC 2000 breakout box, but now I can't find a decent place to buy a new card. I guess Hoontech/STaudio is out of business? I bought a...

The Tascam 788 I bought used keeps stopping in the middle of a recording. The record/play lights go out and the channel record red lights start flashing, indicating that it has returned to record standby mode. I strongly suspect a faulty power supply because even before I got it off Ebay the...

When I boot my PC, I now get a bunch of incorrect characters starting at the BIOS startup screen. After the PC goes through the first usual sets of screens (all with the wrong characters) I can't get into Windows. This has happened to me a bunch of times since I've had the PC (six years) but it...

Can anyone recommend a midi foot pedal that I can use with Sonar 2.2 to control the basic transport commands, i.e., Stop, Play, Record, Rewind? I have an ART X-11 pedal that works fine for the first 3 commands but won't work with Rewind because that needs to be configured with a pedal that, when...

I want to be able to use 2 (computer- not musical) keyboards for recording; 1 for controlling the software and inputting data in front of the monitor and 1 for shortcut inputs at the microphone. Can I use a 2-way splitter on the current keyboard ps/2 port or buy an adaptor and input the second...

Is anyone else out there experiencing this problem on Homerecording.com? I cruise the site for about 5 minutes and then I get booted off with a microsoft 'send error' message. I am then redirected off the site to my homepage. I've been booted off about 20 times and have sent the messages every...

Does anyone know how much HD storage can be utilized with an ASUS P3B-F MOBO with BIOS v1005? ASUS doesn't seem to know.

Ever since I transferred a song from Sonar 1.3.1 to EZ CD Creator to burn the finished product I can't open either of these programs up. When I try to open Sonar (Window 98SE) I get the following messages: 'C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Sonar 1\Sonar.exe A device attached to the system is not...

I want to add a new hard drive to my existing 7200 RPM one. The purpose of this would be to keep the non-audio files on the 5400 RPM drive and continue doing recording on the 7200 drive. Will this cause less wear and tear on the 7200, thereby prolonging its life? I like playing PC games and...

I'm experiencing a squealing/rubbing noise that sounds like an unlubricated bearing in the hard drive. This usually occurs at a restart and then the machine won't boot up. I get 3 different messages. One says, 'Disk boot Failure. Insert recovery boot disk', another says, 'Primary Drive fails'...

Having laid down a midi-synth piano part from my SBLive platinum on Sonar, I was bummed by what sounded like an unnecessary faint percussion sound that seemed to go along with the cadence of the piano. Does anyone know if this is a normal replication of someone striking piano keys or just the...

I'm at my wits end on this one, but I 'm probably doing something stupid. I have: PIII 650, SBlive Platinum, Hoontech C-Port DSP 24 (WDM drivers) and am working with Sonar 1.3.1. For some reason, after I recorded a midi-synth piano part from the SBLive into inputs 3-4 of the Hoontech, whenever I...

I recorded some compilation CDRs on my Plextor drive (at 8X speed) for my Rocktron Jam Box (a Sony CD/radio/cassette player boombox modified by Rocktron with a guitar input) so I could practise along with them, but although the CDRs play OK on my home stereo disc player, on the Jam Box they...