PLEASE Help with No Sound

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Hi all,

I am completely dumb re midi and music but very good from IT perspective. I use Acid Pro just fine and can hear music ok. I am using my notebook, presumably with an internal sound card, and running Win XP Pro.

I installed both HomeStudio 2004 and Sonar and can hear NOTHING.

Project 5 Trial however works very well.

What am I doing wrong?

When I start HS2004 I get a warning message that I wont hear anything because I have not selected any MIDI outputs, but when I go and select them I only have MPU-401 for input and also for output (whatever MPU-401 is) and also as output Microsoft Midi Mapper.

So I selected MPU-401 for both input and output and nothing played can be heard.

If I go into Options | Audio Options I have NO Playback Wave Devices available, but on the drivers tab it shows ALi Audio Wave for both input and output.

Can somebody PLEASE unravel this for me and give me a step-by-step guide to fixing this before I tear all my hair out.

Many Thanks

George
 
Go into OPTIONS-AUDIO-ADVANCED then into Driver Mode. Change it to be MME. This should work.

Different drivers provide different results in Sonar/HS 2004.

MME - Slowest, oldest most compatible. Fine for doing most things.
ASIO - Only recently supported in Sonar, developed for Cubase, faster than MME, can only have one ASIO device configured at a time. Not all cards have ASIO drivers.
WDM - The fastest method of communicating with a sound card. Minimal latency meaning they are useful for playing soft-synths. Even fewer cards have WDM drivers.

Other thing to check is whether or not you have set Sonar/HS2004 up to be using a 24-bit wave files. If you have set this and your sound card only supports 16-bit files, then your experience would be consistent with that. Change it back to 16-bit and it should work.

If audio work on your laptop is important for you, you may need another sound card device apart from that which is in the laptop by default.

:) Q.
 
shame

qwerty

thanks for the info: knowledge is good, but MME(32) setting didnt fix it. I dont recall setting the wav to anything but how do you check and reset it?

thanks again

george
 
OK -

Have you got anything MUTE'ed in the Windows taskbar, the speaker icon?

The driver bit depth is set in OPTIONS-AUDIO also.

Ciao,

Q.
 
still same

No volume control shows nothing muted.

changed driver depth

changed driver mode tried WDM/KS and ASIO

nothing

but remember: on the Audio General Tab the Playback Wav Device is set to None and no devices are available for me to pick. Logic tells me that this MUST be set to something - question is how do I get another device it recognizes, OR doesnt it need it?

thanks
 
still same

No volume control shows nothing muted.

changed driver depth

changed driver mode tried WDM/KS and ASIO

nothing

but remember: on the Audio General Tab the Playback Wav Device is set to None and no devices are available for me to pick. Logic tells me that this MUST be set to something - question is how do I get another device it recognizes, OR doesnt it need it?

thanks
 
Normally that playback timing master list is populated based upon your driver selection => those items that are highlighted under OPTIONS-AUDIO-DRIVERS

If you don't see anything there, then there will be nothing to select in the timing master list.

Close Sonar, delete the AUD.INI file, open Sonar and let it profile your hardware again and see what you get.

Q.
 
where is it?

Cannot find aud.ini anywhere under my win xp root directory - ie all sub directories etc.

can you tell me where yours is please (or even attach if it's ok)

ta

george

btw its 6:20 here, so gotta go walk the dog and go to work, i'll pick this back up with you later. thanks for your help - obviously you can only reply when you can.
 
It's in my Cakewalk\Sonar 3 directory.

Where it is for HS2004 or the trial, I am not sure.

Q.
 
zubo said:
When I start HS2004 I get a warning message that I wont hear anything because I have not selected any MIDI outputs, but when I go and select them I only have MPU-401 for input and also for output (whatever MPU-401 is) and also as output Microsoft Midi Mapper.
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First of all, are you playing back MIDI or audio?

If it's MIDI you won't hear anything because you don't have a MIDI device that plays back sound.

If it's audio, then it's most likely that you have a soundcard that is not supported by HS2004. But in most cases changing drivers to MME should help (but clearly that didn't help either).

What soundcard are you using? And have you tried to update the drivers for it?

EDIT: Soundcards built into laptops aren the greatest... Maybe that's the problem (I think it is).
 
cracked maybe ...

Gentlemen

I have progressed.

I do need to implement some MIDI device I think...

I used the diagnostics for DirectX to check how sound devices were functioning and found that MPU-401 whatever it is was doing nothing - well it didnt play. But I found Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth (whatever that is) but it works.

So in control panel I set this as the default MIDI device, I disabled Ali from playing MIDI, then used the Synth selection for MIDI output in HS2004 and it plays tracks.

So thanks for all your good advice which has been informative.

Hopfully I can play all my music tracks now. Not quite sure why it isnt selecting audio drivers but if it works ....

George
 
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