He has not baught it yet, but he intends to do that. I myself dont know anything about that concept.

Is there anybody who can help me with my problem?

Mark

Any help appreciated!!

Is there nobody of sony who can help me?

Don't have that hardware here, so not much we can do.

Did you contact Hoontech? What did they say?

Peter

Until now I didnt even get an answer - I have been watching both boards an noticed that there are hardly any people who have a working system in this config.

In older posts hoontech always said: get the newest version of vegas and something about 24bit and 3 bit (driver..??) no idea, but there is no way in vegas to controll how 24bit (real or not) should be handled.

my last chance is that there is somebody here who has a working c-port/24bit/48khz on xp.

mark

hi peter,

I got an answer at last and did some tryouts at some of my friends pc's. all with nearly the same config - mainboard, chipset, os....

this is the answer I received and I will try out this evening, I would appretiate any suggestions from your side.
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Hi Claus,

thanks for your quick reply, I will try out your suggestions this evening although I wonder why this issue is only with vegas 24 bit.

I had no problems with samplitude and sx (legal versions) - you can imagine what fun it is to persuade my friends to try out my card in their systems - vegas did not work in their pc's too.


Mark

Claus R wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I managed to install my c-port (at least one of them)and now I have the
> > problem that every time I start vegas (the newest) all lights go off at
> > the extention module and no sound comes out.
>
> Are you 100% sure that this happens? I have never seen this and I have no possible explaination for it unless a very strange fault in the hardware (which I have never seen before) or an even stranger problem with driver installation (which again I have never seen before).
>
> > My workaround for this Problem so far is that I exit the external links
> > software and start it after starting vegas. The lights go on again and
> > sound is there too.
>
> Please uninstall the driver with DSP24INF.EXE. Make sure there are no rests of older driver installations and then reinstall the driver again. This indicates a software issue (but then again, I never heard of something like that and I have no technical explaination for this).
>
> Oh ... one question: what number did you use (DIP switch) on your external box? If it is not 1, change it to 1 (turn off the power!) and see if the problem still exists.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Claus

Don't know what you mean by

"24bit and 3 bit"

You set the project bit depth to control the hardware bit depth. Internally Vegas works in floating point format until it must convert for the hardware.

Q: Are you using ASIO or Wave Classic mode in Vegas?

Peter

Hi Peter,

I dont know what was ment by the 3 bit...

The workaround sent by staudio was no use, the problems occur in both modes asio and wdm. I really dont know what to do now !!???


Mark

Mark,

If you want, have the tech at Hoontech email me:

phaller@sonypictures.com

Perhaps together we can figure out what is going on.

Peter

I have a c-port, DSP2000, XP, and have not had any bad experiences using vegas or any other of the SONY (sonic Foundry) software for a long time. What are you setting your hardware configuration to on the external links menu? Your audio settings should be set to ASIO, otherwise there would be no sound from the c-port...

If I knew more about your computer, I might be able to suggest more...

I have a c-port, DSP2000, XP, and have not had any bad experiences using vegas or any other of the SONY (sonic Foundry) software for a long time. What are you setting your hardware configuration to on the external links menu? Your audio settings should be set to ASIO, otherwise there would be no sound from the c-port...

If I knew more about your computer, I might be able to suggest more...

Thankyou Peter and dbos1yo (what a name)!!

I just downloaded the newest ESI driver from Staudio and I will try this evening. Unfortunatly I wont be able to give a feedback until monday because I'll be on a few gigs.

The thing that gets me nervous is that, the card works like charm with other software.
My config is a epox with KT133 chipset (this is the mainboard which is not recomended for c-port because of poor busmastering and I intend to buy an other one later - but for one card its still OK - at least with sekd samplitude 7 and my newest try with nuendo 2.1)
You can't imagine what one has to do to get his friends to borrow their software and dongles - not talking about always installing new xp before and after.

AMD 2400+ CPU / WD-HD 7200rpm / 512 infineon RAM 333

but every time I switch on vegas, all lights go off......
dear dbos1yo, my hardware setup is asio, buffer 1024, dipswitch 1 - as I told before works with other soft.
There is one more strange thing with the audio setup/preferences. When I set the audiocard to the dsp asio driver and then look to the default recording device a see the same input (no1 - I dont know it by heart because im at work now) ten times instead of a display of all real inputs as seen with the other softs.
dbos1yo could you give me a hint what you see there and how your hardware and software setting is for 24bit/48khz?

thanks all for your help up to now, its good to know not beeing alone.....sob..**

Mark

hi peter,

this is what an other user from polland wrote to me about the 24bit issue:

what staudio told mewas that their newdrivers
use somenew method of streaming the signal (3 byte sth), and
that it's the software's fault that it can't read such stream.
The bright side is that Sound forge 7 can do it so hopefully it
will be introduced in them next versionsof vegas and acid

Hi Peter,

got any news from staudio/esi in the meanwhile - a lot of vegas users are waiting for some approachment

Mark

Nope, They don't appear to be interested.

On the forum you pointed me to it is NOTHING but nightmares for ALL users of this hardware/drivers. Sounds to me like their drivers leave a lot to be desired.

Will let you know if I ever hear from these guys.

Peter

Peter may I give Claus (he is the german guy at staudio and was mostly very helpful) your e-mail adress so that you can get in contact?

Mark

Peter, you can contact Claus also directly 0049 7152 398880.

This topic seems to be for me alone.....


Peter, I have met a guy in the staudio forum who has a working vegas/c-port at 24bit/48khz - unbeleivable! 7.2.08.06 is the driver number and the vegas build is 115!

I will try out this weekend.

Peter, I just got a message from staudio.....

We have not been contacted by Sonic Foundry (or Sony) ... I am sure I would know about that. In case he (I guess it is Peter Haller?) is trying to contact Hoontech, he will have not a lot of success of course ... no one at Hoontech has any relation or responsitiblity for the DSP24 series of products after ESI took over the ST Audio business. Most people at Hoontech would not even be able to respond to english language emails.


Anyway ... there is no problem with Vegas. It is running perfectly fine with the DSP24 series hardware.

I told you before (here) that the problem you have reported sounds very strange to me and it either can be explained by a strange problem with driver installation (that I never saw before) or a defective hardware (that I never saw before either). It is not a driver problem and it is not related to Vegas.

Best regards,

Claus


----the weird thing about this is, that my card worked perfect with any other soft.


Mark

Please, pass my email to them

Peter

Phones are soooo old fashion<g>

He can email me or provide me an email address.

Peter

I just did it....