had to reload but can’t get it to work
I made a very nice recording of our band with N-track a few years ago but the computer I was using N’track on to a hit from a virus and I haven’t had time to reload the computer and set everything back up so now naturally we are planning to go into the studio and I would like to be able to use N’track again for my pre-production demo work and I can’t really remember what to do. The computer I have makes a great little home recording studio and it has a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX sound card with a patch bay that I can connect the studio mixer to among other things. I reloaded the disk with the copy of N-track on it that Antonioli Flavio sent me years ago but the progam does not do anything except to tell me to run the full duplex test but that doesn’t seem to fix anything either. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to make the program work?
Thanx Lee Waddell
Double check that the input and output devices as selected in n-Tracks are what you think they are. Don’t use the “mappers” but select the device you want by name. Then make sure the recording and playback sample rates and bit depth are the same as well.
That error usually means the input and output can’t be opened at the same time. Old non-full duplex cards would usually barf when trying to record and playback at the same time.
It could mean that more than one device of any combination are attempting to be opened and there’s a failure to open. Assuming the drivers are newer or there isn’t something else odd going on that shouldn’t be an issue.
Hmm…maybe the config in n-Tracks just happens to be set to something the Audigy can’t handle, or the Audigy simply isn’t install properly. Make sure the sound card is working with the latest driver in some other app. I bet this is a drive problem that’s faking n-Tracks into popping a less than helpful error.
Older, and I mean REALLY OLD like a SoundBlaster Pro (from the early 1990’s), Creative cards don’t support full duplex even though they say they do. They limit playback to 8 bits while recording. I mention that because it’s been that long since I’ve heard of that error.
Eyup!
I agree with Phoo, certainly appears to be a driver problem.
I am assuming of course that you have eliminated all trace of the virus?
Creative are renown for the pitiful quality of their drivers, but the Audigy should work anyway with Windows built-in drivers.
It might be an idea to delete the soundcard from hardware control panel and reload it from scratch, making sure to disable any on-board soundcard first.
Steve
Thanx you guys I will try this and repost so we can see what it is. Would it make sense if this were a situation where I might not have actually gotten the soundcard on the motherboard turned off before the audigy was implemented? It has been too long for me so there may be something I have forgotten to do, what I remember is that the Intell motherboard came with it’s own video and soundcards and they had to be turned off before an additional card could be run but it escaped me since when I booted from it’s long sleep it had no sound yet.
Thanx Lee
Well that didn’t work, I looked at the BIOs and made sure the soundcard on the motherboard was turned off but appearantly that wasn’t the problem. I’m not quite sure how to sort this possibility out ( Double check that the input and output devices as selected in n-Tracks are what you think they are. Don’t use the “mappers” but select the device you want by name. Then make sure the recording and playback sample rates and bit depth are the same as well ) or what it means exactly but I’m sure I haven’t done any configuring there yet.
Thanx Lee
Thanx PHoo you must be on top of your game as the very first thing you mentioned has turned out to be exactly the problem because I hadn’t selected anything there yet and when I looked at it I recognized the WMD’s that I had used before and it worked.
Thanx again / Lee
Quote: (leewaddell @ Dec. 06 2007, 6:41 AM)
I made a very nice recording of our band with N-track a few years ago but the computer I was using N'track on to a hit from a virus and I haven't had time to reload the computer and set everything back up so now naturally we are planning to go into the studio and I would like to be able to use N'track again for my pre-production demo work and I can't really remember what to do. The computer I have makes a great little home recording studio and it has a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX sound card with a patch bay that I can connect the studio mixer to among other things. I reloaded the disk with the copy of N-track on it that Antonioli Flavio sent me years ago but the progam does not do anything except to tell me to run the full duplex test but that doesn't seem to fix anything either. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to make the program work?
Thanx Lee Waddell
Does anyone know where I can get instructions on the whole usage of N track..What everything does??? Or do I have to find that out for myself?
I noticed that they were selling an owners manual seperatly and if I remember correctly nothing came when they mailed the disk but there was a help file and a tutorial in the program on screen if that helps.
Wonder if it would be ok to cut and paste the whole help file as a topic?
ntrack manual
should be able to download manual from here 
I haven’t seen anything saying that instructions couldn’t be cut and pasted. It might be kind of large as a topic though, for in the forum?