"Your sound card doesn't support stereo. Switching to Mono"

[lynx]

That's the message I got when I installed the demo for Sonar 2.2 on top of Cakewalk 9. My mixes have been feeling sort of "mono" on Cakewalk but I never expected this....anytime I play a game/CD or whatnot it's true stereo.

I have a Soundblaster 5.1 Live! Platium, anyone know what's happening here?

Lynx

[dachay2tnr]

This is a very common problem with WinXP and the SBLive. You need to get a different driver.

You can use the Microsoft driver that is on the WinXP CD to fix the problem. Don't use the Creative driver.

[lynx]

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

[mbuster]

I had the same problem. It never got truly fixed until I ditched the creative card and got a Delta

[James Argo]

It only happened with older Creative's driver If you download the latest driver, it's not a problem anymore But better yet, use Mocrosoft's driver (comes with your Windows). If you use Windows XP, then just "roll back" the driver from Control Panel.


Jaymz

[moskus]

Originally posted by mbuster
I had the same problem. It never got truly fixed until I ditched the creative card and got a Delta

Sounds like the best way to fix it...

[zone_ahead]

Try James' suggestion. If it doesn't work because your SoundBlaster is an OEM version such as the ones supplied by Dell, you can switch to the MME drivers.

Not the greatest for latency, but at least you can work in stereo.