Beeps During Vegas Playback

riceprod wrote on 10/3/2007, 8:40 AM
This happened to me last night, and since I didn't stumble across this symptom/solution anywhere during my 2 hours of searching the Sony Creative site last night, I thought I'd share to help spare anyone else a needless headache...

I opened Vegas 4.0 (yes, I'm old-school like that) and whenever I played back audio there were these digital beeps, and they occurred in every project I opened. I looked online at all of the forums and the best I could figure was it was a sound-card issue, which made no sense since SoundForge still worked fine. It occurs to me that this all was happened after I'd installed a new program, so I uninstalled that, still no luck. Finally in desperation I uninstalled and reinstalled Vegas. Ding! So I pay the cash for a 60-day Sony tech-support deal so I can actually talk to someone to figure out what happened. The tech support guy thinks somehow that other program I installed (which incidentally was an older version of Acid) might have corrupted my Vegas registry, so Vegas thought it was an expired demo version and that's what caused the beeps. That's right, the beeps are what happens if you try using Vegas past the free 30-day trial period. I've never used Vegas as a demo, so I didn't know this.

My question: WHY IS THAT INFO NOT ON THE SONY SUPPORT SITE??? Of all the searches I did, there was nothing even remotely close to that explanation. Anywho, end of rant, and if this happens to you you may just need to re-register the program.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/3/2007, 11:05 AM
Well, you would have found that information if you had searched the forums. It's come up quite often in here. And i suppose i just think differently than you, but i wouldn't have bothered paying for tech support after the reinstall made the problem go away. I would only have done that if the problem hadn't been fixed. *shrug* But that's just me.
riceprod wrote on 10/3/2007, 12:27 PM
Thanks for your condescending reply. I did search the forums, and got no satisfactory results. I paid for the tech support because a) I've ordered Acid Pro 6 and will be installing it next week and wanted to be covered in case it happened again, and b) I wanted to know WHY this happened and as I mentioned the forums and Knowledgebase offered me no help.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 10/3/2007, 10:47 PM
Vegas 4 ?! You paid for the phone tech support - it was 60 days, not 60 years, though the online support remains free if you are not in an urgent hurry.

Maybe you are the first person that particular set of circumstances has happened to .

Maybe that info IS there, and you did not phrase your search optimally.

geoff