M-Audio Fast Track / Sonar Home Studio 6 help please!

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Almost August West
Member Since: Mar 12, 2007

Hello all, I am trying to use M-Audio Fast Track USB with Sonar Home Studio 6 and receive the following error: "Audio Driver Error: The following driver(s) either do not support the current audio format, or are in use by another application." I went to Cakewalk's help page and tried the suggested fixes (www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/kb2003174.asp)
....still getting the same error. Running Windows XP. Any ideas on what else I could be doing wrong? Let me know if more info needed. Thanks in advance.

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Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004


Mar 12, 2007 12:40 pm

er, your page says it's not found.

Anyhow, I'd guess that you opened a device that grabs the asio driver. The ASIO driver can only work with one device at a time (or one class of devices, all sharing the same asio interface driver).

Maybe something else in your system grabs the driver.

As a chance, try to use WDM driver and see if you can get going.


Almost August West
Member
Since: Mar 12, 2007


Mar 12, 2007 01:05 pm

OK, will do, thanks much for the quick response pjk. Another thought I had after I posted....should I disable my integrated soundcard so that everything has to go through the M-Audio interface? Or would that be useless/counterproductive? Thanks again!

Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004


Mar 12, 2007 01:50 pm

I do, as I don't have a sound blaster card.

Meaning: some soundblaster cards can play soundfonts internally, loaded into the soundcard memory. This may be better for some, to be able to play fonts directly from the card.

That said, my sound cards would be onboard ones, and I always shut them off in BIOS. This may free up the IRQ and memory addresses (i haven't confirmed it directly), and will also remove the possibility of having windows try to use it for it's own reasons. Sometimes, loading software can attach itself to the onboard sound, then you have to figure out why your new interface doesn't make sound =).

Also, you can turn off the driver in windows memory, so there's one less thing for windows to play with, and possibly create problems.

I've never seen a need to have the onboard running, as it's almost always quite inferior to a recording card.

I should add: on my laptop, I let my onboard sound stay alive. When my US122 is plugged in, all sound goes through that. When I don't have it plugged in, windows uses my onboard sound to play songs, etc.

My laptop seems to know which one to use on it's own, so I don't disable the onboard chip. I use the laptop often for playing songs, without the us122, so it works out great.

Almost August West
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Since: Mar 12, 2007


Mar 12, 2007 02:19 pm

That makes sense to me pjk, thanks very much for getting back to me so quickly AGAIN and stating things in terms that a newbie can understand! I will give your suggestions a go as soon as I get home today. Glad I joined this site. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute at some point instead of just sponging info. :)

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Since: Mar 13, 2007


Mar 13, 2007 11:57 am

In case this might help, either now or in the future:

I own an M-Audio Fast Track Pro. I had to disable my onboard sound card in the Bias in order to use the ASIO driver. Also, if you are to use more than one software that needs the driver, you'll need to run Sonar as host and whatever other software as a Rewire slave, a VST or a softsynth. Like stated on a previous reply to your post, ASIO drivers cannot be "shared".

Finally, be carefull about sound resolution and sampling rates. On my setup, Sonar wants to export audio at 96KHz and 32 bits where my M-Audio interface supports 48KHz and 24 bits max. I have to manually ajust the export rate in order to have a file my audio interface can actually play.

Almost August West
Member
Since: Mar 12, 2007


Mar 13, 2007 12:15 pm

OK, thanks Screetch, from your post and the preceeding posts, it sounds like disabling the onboard card is the way to go. I tried running everything as WDM and still, no dice. So I'll disable the onboard and run everything ASIO and see what happens. Thanks again!

Afterthought - perhaps I should also look into developing some basic computer skills/vocabulary so that I can think of this stuff myself. :)

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