why does the audio engine ocassionally disbale itself?

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:33 am

......so I go back and reset it ipreferences....but why do you think this happens?

thanks

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:44 am

do you mean when you change sample rates?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:12 am

Could be the following:

1) you had another application using your audio drivers when you launched live

2) your soundcard was not turned on or your computer thought it was disconnected (sometimes the case with usb or firewire devices)

3) Live is losing its preferences for some reason..

if it's 1) or 2), if Live launches and it cannot access or find your soundcard, it will disable the audio engine and you have to go back and set the preferences or if you shut down, you will have to set your preferences next time you load live.

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:28 pm

thanks, I suspect the answer is #3, Live looses its preferences

any suggestions/fix for that?

thanks

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:07 am

bump

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:45 am

Sebastian wrote:......so I go back and reset it ipreferences....but why do you think this happens?

thanks

Can't help I'm on XpPro SP1 and it's never happened from Live 3.0 to 4.1.1 so I'm not of much help - never does it if I change sample rates or drivers for Audition 1.5 either ...................... sorry

.

Much like Reason 3.0 .
It runs like a fuggin' champ / no glitches / CPU issues or anything either .
In fact I'd say it's totally bug free bar the pc keyboard command mapping issues the Prop's are aware if it's mega stable .

I seem to be lucky or something.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:46 am

Try something like this:

1) make sure live works the way you want it
2) make a copy of the preferences file (not sure of the name off top of my head)
3) use live without changing the preferences until you get the same problem
4) dont fix the problem in live
5) see if the last modified time/date stamp has changed on the preferences file
6) copy your old preferences over on top of the messed up preferences file

if that seems to make your sound card work again and you cannot figure out why the preferences get messed up (if that is indeed whats happening) you can:

1) make a "batch" file which will copy the backup preferences file you have over on top of whatever live has
2) then the batch file launches live
3) you double click the batchfile and it will fix your preferences and launch live for you instead of normal shortcut to live

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:56 am

sweetjesus wrote: 2) make a copy of the preferences file (not sure of the name off top of my head)

preferences.cfg for both XP and OSX,

in XP make sure you have "show hidden files" checked in your folder options, as its in the hidden Application Data folder

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:16 am

Didn't he say he's using a photocopied manual......

Chances are it's just a dodgy warez version.

Buy and if you have any trouble I'm sure support can fix it.

-Ben

William · Post by **William** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:36 pm

Sebastian wrote:bump

Have you contacted tech support? Live 4 works flawlessly for me...

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:28 pm

thanks guys. Ill go over your suggestions tonight carefully

and yes, i did buy Live

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:38 pm

MrYellow wrote:Didn't he say he's using a photocopied manual......

Chances are it's just a dodgy warez version.

Buy and if you have any trouble I'm sure support can fix it.

-Ben

That sounds like a bit of a dig there.
Give the benfit of the doubt.

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:50 pm

Yaar,
If you download you don't get the manual

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:15 am

thanks guys! I did double check on Adam Jays suggestion about the hidden files in Folder Options, was set as he suggested

Regarding the preferences file...did a search of preferences.cfg.....nothing came up! Could this be an indication of the problem?

Also, Im not sure if I understand, this info is in the manual? Yes I do have a hard copy of it

again thanks a bunch

whatever else you can think of, I appreciate

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:44 am

That sounds like a bit of a dig there.
Give the benfit of the doubt.

Yeah I'm just generally an asshole

Add to that quiting smoking and I'm a real prick

-Ben

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