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Hey all

Right,, where to begin,,,i will try to be brief.

Whilst doing realtime processing of audio in Cakewalk Sonar LE (bundled software), the program periodically freezes or crashes or both,,,or even justs shuts off (most of the time giving an error and code before doing so). Cakewalk (Sonar) say its my soundcard (RME HDSP9652) drivers, i have updated them,,,same problem,,,i have then reverted back,,,same problem. Windows support point at Cakewalk, Cakewalk point at RME.

I have pasted into a text document every error (code) that has ever occured since i bought Windows (XP SP2), and it is getting very long!

Also, when i do ANY video processing, i get the same. I thought buying a new DVD drive would fix things (after having a "one of the first LG dvd writers" writer) but alas, after trying to burn my honeymoon vid to dvd,,,system shutdown and "fatal error" recovery nonsense etc etc.

I suspect dodgy vst plugins and have just downloaded a scanner to check em out but doubt that as i have re-installed windows a couple of times and started right at the very basics. Maybe a hardware conflict? Maybe something running background styles that wants to jump in?

If this straight away jumps out at any forum user as an obvious, 100% fixable solution, please let me know.

I have attached my error log as well as Jpeg of task manager - WHY the hell is SOUNDMAN running? isn't that a windows sound device? And sometimes DR Watson tunes me postmortem debugger has found a fatal error?

I have 2 pc's and also wish to furnish the hardware specs of both so someone could aid me in building at least 1 kick a*s machine. Maybe later.

LAST THING - - you know,,,someone should build a website (or point this idiot to an existing one) that caters for pc musician' pc's. Like there is a business opportunity there you know. We PC muso's are pretty handy on PC's and would love a site to talk about OUR dll's ya know??? just thinking...

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Cheers,

Brendan

Welcome to PC Help Forums Drumstix

A member of our Tech Support and possibly, Security team will be will you shortly.
You may have some undesirable .exe programs running.

Please bear with us for the time being.

Hi Drumstix,

Welcome to PCHF.

Can you follow PCHF Prework and post your hijack logs back here. A member of security will post any fix's back here.

Soundman is OK! I take it you have an AC'97 soundcard? I use Propellerhead Reason, couldn't get used to Cakewalk. There is a forum for Reason (ReasonStation - Propellerheads Reason Community :: songs, samples, refills, tips, equipment reviews), where everybody discusses and posts their music there. You can listen and comment to others and they can do the same to you!

Er,,thanks guys.

Um,,Wolfeymole, i like the sound of "undesirable exe's running - is there any site or software or forum around for seeing what's exactly going on there? edit...er i found one - http://www.answersthatwork.com/

MADMONKEY - i am running a RME 24 input soundcard that syncs via digital wordclock to my Behringer DDX3216 digital mixer. Every now and then i experience digital audio dropout (digital noise) and have to reboot windows AND my mixer to get rid of it.

This is my concern: I have accumulated a lot of professional digital studio equipment that requires alot of manual reading and hours to install and run in conjuction with a computer. I'm afraid that a site such as PCHF (although packed with forum users of high computing knowledge and ability) will not be able to disect the core issue of the problem that i face as it is a hugely specific problem, specific because of the improbability of a setup like mine being duplicated. Im not too sure if it is a musicians site i need or a pc site???

YEAH - LET ME CREATE A MUSO PC HELP SITE ( anybody got a good .com name?)

Obviously, if my radeon card was being rejected by windows or my anti-virus was doing odd things, this might be the perfect place to seek help, but i'm not sure how to structure my request for help with you guys. Im not sure where to start looking for the problem. I dont know what the problem is.

Cheers

You ask, we answer to the best of our abilities Drum.
We don't need to go into the details of your music software, what you need to do is follow monkeys advice and look at his "Prework" link and follow it from there ok?

Your quote "is there any site or software or forum around for seeing what's exactly going on there?"
You've found it.

cool, i shall do that...

Okay i guess i had one or two (or 6 ) nasties on my pc... could they be the problem?

Hope these logs help. Ive got AVG free on there now and may look into buying protection for my "never goes on the net" PC.

Gonna go and try out cakewalk now,,,run lots of plugins and do lots of realtime, processor hungry things!

Thanks for the help so far guys...
Later