Jul 26, 2006 10:54 pm Yep, I know several peeps who use it with pretty good results. I suggest hitting Tascams website for the newest drivers. They supposedly fixed a good deal of bugs a few months back.
Sonar 4 Tascam US122 fatalities....
Posted on Jul 26, 2006 09:59 pm
suprchuck1
Member Since: Jul 18, 2006
Hey all,
I'm fairly new to this forum. I just downloaded a trial version of SONAR 4 and it seems like it's an awesome program. However, my problem comes from this:
I got suckered into buying a freakin Tascam US-122 interface. I had many problems in the past multitracking and layering in Cool Edit Pro 2.0 with the darn thing, so I figured I'd use a well recomended program and see if it worked any better that way. No dice so far.
Anyway, here's the problem:
Whenever I hit stop after a live recording (I just finished playing my guitar into the US-122), my screen goes blue screen of death on me. Yep. Fatal error. It turns out it's always caused by a driver. the message on the blue screen is "BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER."
There is no doubt in my mind that it's the US-122 causing this, but I have no idea how to fix it.
Has anyone out there ever successfully recorded and layered tracks with a US-122? Is there a way to get this darn thing to work with my machine? (WinXP, newest US-122 drivers, P4 1.6GhZ, 512M RAM.) Any programs that will work? I really don't want to buy another interface cause I'm strapped for cash and I just got this darn thing in december and have never made it work!
Please please please help me. Any advice anyone can offer will make me sooo happy!
Thanks so much for help in advance.
~Chuck
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Jul 26, 2006 10:54 pm Yep, I know several peeps who use it with pretty good results. I suggest hitting Tascams website for the newest drivers. They supposedly fixed a good deal of bugs a few months back.
Jul 27, 2006 08:23 am yeah i just did a full clean, deleting the registry as the website suggests then downloaded the newest XP drivers. same deal. it actually is giving me more fatal errors since I've got the new drivers intalled. I used to be able to get some recording done, but always ran into mega latency and skipping problems.
I actually googled US-122 and the bug message i was getting and it brough tme to tons of mega technical computer forums. people there are talking about all kinds of stuff I've never heard of (way over my head) and they still can't find a universal fix. To me it seems hopeless.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Jul 27, 2006 09:59 am how 'bout tryin' a generic driver like the one here www.asio4all.com/
that might help
Jul 27, 2006 10:40 am Oop, didn't see this thread first,
Did you try back revving the drivers? I think I loaded the drivers from the CD onto mine, and it worked pretty well. I had to reload the drivers one or two times in the beginning (windows lost them, somehow) but now it works pretty well. I've done a few non-layered projects, but also I've done a few multi-layered ones.
The HRC promo in my music gallery is done with the US122. It's got 2 or 3 vox tracks, and around 7 or 8 music tracks in different spots.
Jul 27, 2006 01:29 pm PJK,
did you update to the newest drivers online, or do you just use the ones from the cd?
when recording, did you use the monitor on the US-122 or did you monitor via your PC soundcard's headphone jack?
Also, what program did you use for that and is there anything else you had to do to fool with it to get it to work?
Thanks so much, i'm trying so hard to get this darn thing to work.
Whosyourdaddy: I read on a pc forum last night that the universal asio drivers don't work, but you need to specify like the bitrate or sampling rate or something for it to work. thanks though, i'll try that anyway. heck, something's gotta work, right?
thanks again for all replies.
Jul 27, 2006 02:04 pm I only used the drivers that came with the CD, not the online ones.
I didn't use the onboard soundcard at all. It's quite low-grade, and I only use it when the us-122 is not attached.
I use headphones, plugged into the headphone jack on the us122. To be honest, i've never even plugged anything into the line out jacks, since this setup with the laptop is quite sparce. I have a small set of creative labs 2.1 speakers that I plug into the headphone jack, when I want speakers hooked up.
I used N-Track 3.3. It's been working well with everything I throw at it, so I'm pretty content.
If you're inclined to take a look, try the 3.3 version, in their old section (www.fasoft.com). The newer 4.x versions weren't as stable, and now require .net framework to operate. I'm happy with 3.3, so I've not upgraded.
Like I mentioned earlier, I had to reload the drivers (from CD) a few times, when booting the laptop, but it stopped doing that after the second or third time. Since then it's been very smooth, and problem-less.
Have you tried putting service pack 2 on your XP? maybe that'll help. I'm using XP Home (came on laptop) so I've not tried XP with it.
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