Subject:Sound Forge - AM3

Posted by: arrigo

Date:12/27/1999 2:15:00 PM

I bought Digi Session with AM3 some 3 years ago and a
little later, Sound Forge.

Am3 is a wonderful sound card and Sound Forge a powerful
tool for Recording Studios, but their "marriage" is a
calamity. When I move from Win95 to Win98, things got
worse.
Despite I follow carefully every "recipe" from Sonic
Foundry and Digidesign, I couldn't get rid of problems
when reproducing a Sound Forge file (stuttering, pops &
drops), even though I install a dedicated HDD for .wav
files.
So, when I knew of Driver 1.5, I downloaded and install it
inmediatelly, following each instruction accurately.
Results? It stinks! (maybe because it's incompatible with
my old version of AM3).

Consequently, I come back to Driver version 1.3 and
reinstall .dlls and .vxd files again.(I downloaded 1.3
& files). Now, Oh surprise, believe or not, EVERYTHING is
perfec.
I am not wise enough enough to tell you why (after all,
I'm and old technician born in Italy 73 years ago), but I
suppose the last "downloads" have some improvements and/or
the sequence in charging drive and files made the miracle.

Anyway, I enjoy now Soud Forge without limitation (perfect
playback of files, large VU Meters, Scrolling, use and abuse
of Zooms, etc, etc).

Here is the "stuff":

Motherboard Intel with Pentium 233 MMX, 65Mb RAM, Ide HDD
6 GB for everything but .wav files, Wide SCSI 4 GB for
.wav files exclusively, Panasonic x8 CD Write, AM3 Sound
card, Creative x24 CDR (no Sound Blaster), running Windows
98 last version.

Software: Session, Sound Forge 4.5, Cool Edit Pro, Cakewalk
Pro 8.0, Easy CDPro, etc.

I hope everyboby have the same good luck.

Arrigo Zanessi
Mendoza, ARGENTINA