AlChuck
Well-known member
OK, I give up... I've messed around trying to get this thing to respond, to no avail.
The emagic SoundDiver software that comes with the POD works fine (well, despite the cryptic interface and the fact that if the POD's not connected and you click Retry in the message that pops up, it crashes the app, and if you try a second time, it crashes the operating system). It sees the POD, it can request a dump of the POD's current settings, and the POD in turn responds to things I select; you can see the patch numbers change, etc.
But I cannot seem to get the POD Studioware file in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 to work. That the documentation is dreadful doesn't help. I can easily open the Studioware file. I can save a project file from it. But I seem to have no way to show the Track view and select a port for a particular track to store any changes. Moreover, when I turn the knobs, nothing happens. OK, so I read the documentation -- did I mention how dreadful it was? -- and eventually fiddle my way into design view. There I tell it to use a port rather than a track as the destination for the MIDI data of several of the widgets. I use the same MIDI port that SoundDiver finds and uses with no problem. So I roll the knobs and click the buttons again. No apparent reaction from my kidney-bean-shaped red friend.
Is there anyone out there using this Studioware panel in Cake that can explain to me how to get it to send MIDI messages out to the device, and how to incorporate it with a musical project so that I can work in the track view, maybe make some progam changes through the course of a song and record them?
Thanks...
-AlChuck
The emagic SoundDiver software that comes with the POD works fine (well, despite the cryptic interface and the fact that if the POD's not connected and you click Retry in the message that pops up, it crashes the app, and if you try a second time, it crashes the operating system). It sees the POD, it can request a dump of the POD's current settings, and the POD in turn responds to things I select; you can see the patch numbers change, etc.
But I cannot seem to get the POD Studioware file in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 to work. That the documentation is dreadful doesn't help. I can easily open the Studioware file. I can save a project file from it. But I seem to have no way to show the Track view and select a port for a particular track to store any changes. Moreover, when I turn the knobs, nothing happens. OK, so I read the documentation -- did I mention how dreadful it was? -- and eventually fiddle my way into design view. There I tell it to use a port rather than a track as the destination for the MIDI data of several of the widgets. I use the same MIDI port that SoundDiver finds and uses with no problem. So I roll the knobs and click the buttons again. No apparent reaction from my kidney-bean-shaped red friend.
Is there anyone out there using this Studioware panel in Cake that can explain to me how to get it to send MIDI messages out to the device, and how to incorporate it with a musical project so that I can work in the track view, maybe make some progam changes through the course of a song and record them?
Thanks...
-AlChuck