If it's onboard (mean i810 or sth else)with a big propablity it's a "Cyrstal 4299" and you have to download it from internet (try www.download.com and there is a section "drivers"), if not, you can open the case and look for a small chip in the middle-left side, hmm where, between PCI slots mostly or a bit below PCI slots and hard to read the values on it but you can, can't you? the size of the chip is appx. 5-6mm x 5-6mm so be careful about it, may be it can be an AL1881, this is two most commonly used chips for i810 series mainboards. tell me from icq uin#1691211 or e-mail me.

I am running Pro Audio 9 with Win98 and I am
considering upgrading to Windows XP . Do someone
can assure me it will work fine?
I don't want to pay big bucks for Sonar.
Many Thanks!
jean.beaumier@sympatico.ca

To Jon (and whomever else it may concern!):

I am currently running Cakewalk HS 9.01 on an XP platform and it seems to be working fine. However, I had XP and installed CWHS fresh afterwards. I gather from the way you mention the problem, that Cakewalk was installed (on your computer) in Win 98 and then you upgraded to WinXP and the problem emerged. I had this happen with my Cakewalk 6.0 installation when I upgraded from Win95 to Win98. All the files seemed to install correctly but the program would not execute. When I in turn upgraded Cakewalk to 9.0, everything worked. There are several possible underlying problems and the fix may not be at all simple. Two kinds of approaches suggest themselves. One involves deleting registry keys that refer to CWHS; the other involves shared file version conflicts.

Before you read on, note well: MESSING WITH THE REGISTRY CAN BE DANGEROUS for the O.S. itself. I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY REGISTRY MODIFICATIONS IN XP... BUT ...

A traditional approach to driver/install problems is to 1) Unistall the dysfunctional software; 2) run regedit and use the search to find all keys that reference the software and delete those references; then exit regedit and reboot; make sure OS is functioning otherwise well; try a clean reinstall of the software.

BE ADVISED (I'm emphasizing, not shouting): MESSING WITH THE REGISTRY CAN BE DANGEROUS for the O.S. itself. I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY REGISTRY MODIFICATIONS IN XP and would ONLY TRY ON MY SYSTEM as a LAST RESORT

The following explanation/remedy (from Cakewalk's TS FAQs) of what sounds like a serious program crash may also be helpful (this is the shared file conflict approach.You will need to compare what they say about the problem observed in the fix and see how closely it matches what you recall about the problem on your own machine):

>"Cakewalk 7.0 or 8.0 gives me an Invalid Page >Fault error or a Divide By Zero error when I >access certain menus.
>You may experience Divide by Zero or Invalid >Page Fault errors if your computer is using an >older version of a file named Comctrl32.dll

>There is a fix. The Cakewalk 7.0 CD contains a >file called 40Comupd.exe. (The Setup routine >should have detected the older file and asked if >you want to update Comctrl32.dll. It's possible >that you clicked No or the Install routine >somehow missed the old file.) Updating the >required file on your computer is easy.
> 1. Browse the Cakewalk 7.0 CD using Windows
> Explorer.
> 2. Open the Cakewalk directory
> 3. Double-click the file called 40Comupd.exe.
> This will update your Comctrl32.dll file and
> restore Cakewalk to full operation."

I checked and Cakewalk HS 9.0 also has this file on its install CD (in the Cakewalk folder, if you browse the CD). I might therefore assume that 8.0 would have it as well. Again, I don't KNOW whether this would fix your problem. But usually when a working program stops working following an upgrade, it's because some shared file got updated by the upgrade software, thus spelling doom for the application that needs the older version. Conventional wisdom is that if you can get the dysfunctioning software's own executable components to update files it shares with the OS/other programs, then that software will run properly again. The only catch involves files that are shared between the OS and several programs that each expect a certain version...

Hope this answers more questions than it raises!
(So much for hope...) Probably the wisest thing to do is to involve Cakewalk's people on this...

Brian

: I am now running windows xp, but this has somehow disabled cakewalk. I reinstalled Pro audio 9 but the .exe will just not work - nothing happens. Is this a cakewalk thing or XP? anybody help please?
: Cheers,
: Jon

I reckon you gotta contact Cakewalk for an answer.

: I am now running windows xp, but this has somehow disabled cakewalk. I reinstalled Pro audio 9 but the .exe will just not work - nothing happens. Is this a cakewalk thing or XP? anybody help please?
: Cheers,
: Jon

There is a section devoted to <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/AUDIO_RESTORATION/">audio restoration</a> on this site. I don't think there is anything that is freeware that is any good. You'll have to look around and make up your mind for yourself. Oh the horrors!

: I have a lot of old vinyl that I would like to preserve. I need to be able to edit out the hiss and scratches. What would be a good software product to accomplish this?

Yes, there are a lot of people around here who agree with you on this point.

: I saw tons of posts here, some idiots always wrote about illegal softwares, in my opinion first try it and if it's for your work just buy the full version with fully support and no problems. why beg for illegal always?

The cheapest and easiest way is to use WinZip, believe it or not! I use it all the time to merge MP3s, Wavs and MPGs.
Open Winzip, and start a new file. Before you add the files you want to merge, be sure the compression ratio is set to "None". Add the files in the order that you want them to play. Save the file, then change the filename extention from .zip to .mp3 or .wav or .mpg. It's that easy!

WaveLab is a professional solution for it but also Fruity Tracks can do that as well for cheaper. if need sth freeware or shareware for a limited time, try mp3trackmaker :P

Typical Turkish behaviors, called "do sth but not sure about what, just press on 'submit'" ehehehe. damn idiots... Ayca is a idiot from Turkey, land of idiots, mosly, total ratio in population is %99.8

: . tell situation programme copy gratuitousness change from . ( player true ) or . to . form mp3 . :

: I play the tenor sax and am interested in capturing the actual notes that are being played in certain pieces of music (e.g., music file to sheet music). Does anybody know of a software package out there that is capable of doing this? Please e-mail me at GMTemple@aol.com if you know of a package that is capable of this. Thanks!

Hey Gina: You could achieve your purpose by getting a midi sequencer with notation capabilities. Then you find the piece of music you want on the net as a midi file and convert the sax part to notation. There's a lot of programs that can do this from very little to a lot of money, wish I could be more specific but there's so much out there. It's a little a hard to get into PC recording but with a little perseverance the benefits to ANY musician are astounding. There's also a program called Transcribe which helps you manually convert to notation. Later