Subject:SYNC Logic, Acid, and Rebirth on the same PC with a GINA.

Posted by: SLS

Date:3/22/1999 6:27:58 AM

I've been experimenting with SYNCing LAW, ACID, and Rebirth
on one PC with a GINA sound card and have encountered some
problems/questions.

- -- When using LAW, Rebirth and ACID at the same time I
get the following error in ACID:

"An error occurred while starting playback. Make sure
your hardware is properly configured in preferences. The
device specified is in use."

I've concluded the error is referring to the sound card
driver/s but can't seem to make it work regardless of the
settings I use. It seems as though something is 'tying
up' the sound card driver/s and will not let ACID access
the specified output pair, which BTW is not being used by
any other app at this time.

It seems weird to me, why do either ACID or Rebirth work
fine when sync'd ONE AT A TIME but not together? Once
again, it seems to me that the 'sync' portion is working
fine but the error is related to a sound card issue.

Anyone else doing/done the same or perhaps have an answer?

Thanks for your time and sorry for the length of this post.

Sincerely,

David K. McCutcheon

Subject:Re: SYNC Logic, Acid, and Rebirth on the same PC with a GINA.

Reply by: Stu

Date:3/23/1999 9:37:54 AM

"When using LAW, Rebirth and ACID at the same time I get
the following error in ACID ... "

Ah ... that's an easy one. The answer is this: ReBirth
hogs your card. Yep, that's right. Try playing ANY audio
stream that's NOT ReBirth when it's open. It won't work
(unless you have multiple sound cards or special drivers to
allow for multiple audio streams.) The reason for this is
because ReBirth is set so that it starts instantaneously
without the popping sound that sometimes occurs when the
sound driver is initialized. You'll notice that Acid and
Sound Forge and many others have a slight pause (I'm
talking 10ths of seconds here) between pressing "Play" and
actually hearing the audio stream. In that time is when
the audio driver is initialized. The Propellerheads in
their infinite wisdom decided that you shouldn't be able to
change this either. You can't tell it to NOT hog the audio
stream at all times. Sorry.

Do this as a fix: Record all of your ReBirth lines to Wave
files and then pull them into Acid. Voila!

Hope that helps,

-=[Stu]=-

Subject:Re: SYNC Logic, Acid, and Rebirth on the same PC with a GINA.

Reply by: pwppch

Date:4/22/1999 8:31:33 AM

A device that ACID is trying to use must be inuse by something else.
This is
what the error means.

How are you attempting to sync all of these?

What MIDI Device is being used?

Who is the slave? Who is the master?

How is LAW mapped to the Audio Hardware?
How is Rebirth mapped?
How is ACID mapped?

Peter

SLS wrote in message ...
>I've been experimenting with SYNCing LAW, ACID, and Rebirth
>on one PC with a GINA sound card and have encountered some
>problems/questions.
>
>- -- When using LAW, Rebirth and ACID at the same time I
>get the following error in ACID:
>
>"An error occurred while starting playback. Make sure
>your hardware is properly configured in preferences. The
>device specified is in use."
>
>I've concluded the error is referring to the sound card
>driver/s but can't seem to make it work regardless of the
>settings I use. It seems as though something is 'tying
>up' the sound card driver/s and will not let ACID access
>the specified output pair, which BTW is not being used by
>any other app at this time.
>
>It seems weird to me, why do either ACID or Rebirth work
>fine when sync'd ONE AT A TIME but not together? Once
>again, it seems to me that the 'sync' portion is working
>fine but the error is related to a sound card issue.
>
>Anyone else doing/done the same or perhaps have an answer?
>
>Thanks for your time and sorry for the length of this post.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>David K. McCutcheon
>
>

Subject:Re: SYNC Logic, Acid, and Rebirth on the same PC with a GINA.

Reply by: Clint

Date:5/21/1999 12:00:00 AM

Almost true...
I've got Rebirth 2.01 to sync with my fav. sequencing
program, (both MIDI and audio play back perfectly) but once
I tried to through acidpro into the situation acid said the
card was in use. In order for Rebirth to play back audio
with something else it has to be using the directx
compatible driver for your soundcard, as well as any other
audio you may be trying to play back... For some reason
Acid does not recognize (show as an option) the directX
version of my audiocard driver.
clint.

Stuart MacQuarrie wrote:
>>"When using LAW, Rebirth and ACID at the same time I get
>>the following error in ACID ... "
>>
>>Ah ... that's an easy one. The answer is this: ReBirth
>>hogs your card. Yep, that's right. Try playing ANY audio
>>stream that's NOT ReBirth when it's open. It won't work
>>(unless you have multiple sound cards or special drivers
to
>>allow for multiple audio streams.) The reason for this is
>>because ReBirth is set so that it starts instantaneously
>>without the popping sound that sometimes occurs when the
>>sound driver is initialized. You'll notice that Acid and
>>Sound Forge and many others have a slight pause (I'm
>>talking 10ths of seconds here) between pressing "Play" and
>>actually hearing the audio stream. In that time is when
>>the audio driver is initialized. The Propellerheads in
>>their infinite wisdom decided that you shouldn't be able
to
>>change this either. You can't tell it to NOT hog the
audio
>>stream at all times. Sorry.
>>
>>Do this as a fix: Record all of your ReBirth lines to
Wave
>>files and then pull them into Acid. Voila!
>>
>>Hope that helps,
>>
>>-=[Stu]=-
>>