Jeremy Oakes

Great stuff Bill, but wow, you lost me half way through the first quarter of the original post. But i will persevere ....... if my fingers recover. Thanks again Bill, J

C’mon, i run nVidia drivers on a desktop and a laptop. I have disabled the nVidia hdmi audio, the nVidia experience and whatever else i can during fresh installs. No problems. Latency Mon is green, on both. I can record a concert (3 x 40 mn ) without problems on the laptop. Perhaps its a little too general to blame nVidia per se ? Not looking for a dispute, just saying. FYI, The Echo web page states that they do NOT support W10 - the problem is perhaps there........... https://echoaudio.com/pages/windows-drivers cheers, Jerry

I had this problem (same message) some time ago after I installed drivers v 3.4 (and for that matter v3.4.4). After contacting the company they told me to roll back to v2.4.5 which I did, no problems. I never heard from them again....... I also have a second gen 18i20 Now, albeit since end January, the "new" driver software (for me) on the Focusrite website is v3.5 and installing this has done the trick for my setup. However, the one thing I did do after installation (and this could possible cause your BSOD ? ) was to make sure that the sample rate for the unit was set to 44.1mHz via the Focusrite software BEFORE opening Cakewalk (that's what I use for my projects). By default it goes to 48mHz For midi I always go direct into my PC via USB and use soft-synths within Cakewalk. No problems noted using a class compliant Oxygen 61 version IV. Hope you get it sorted, my set up now appears to be stable. Cheers, J

This is also how I use my 18i20 Jerry

Funny that, i updated W10 just before installing the 3.5 software//driver and today not one crash, (Cakewalk VLC, WMP etc). FWIW, one thing i did do just after installing was to change from 48 to 44.1 which is what most of my projects are at, before trying any software. Best, J

There is new software on the Focusrite main site : Focusrite Control - 3.5.0.1754 (2nd gen 18i20) This"seems" to be stable, I'll test it more this week-end. There was also a firmware update built in, a combination of improved driver and the new firmware ? Cheers, J

Good to know. I’ll try it tomorrow. Jerry

Yes, 16 live tracks from a Soundcraft MTK 22 through an i5 laptop then USB 3 to a SSD. Works perfectly. cheers, J

It works for vocals - getting things in tune for example. you can easily ( sic ) work out which blobs refer to the voice. and modify them. i also use it for bass - to tame things down. But recently i’ve been converting it to midi, then i use a soft synth - a good way to get rid of finger “clicks” or transients. YMMV, Jerry

Roll back to what ? Jerry

Nope. My LS 56 is still purring along. Dice controller, FW card with TI chip, standard W10 drivers. Wonderful piece of kit. On W10 1903. Jerry

Yes, this is almost what i do - i make a sketch. J

Well this worked for me - many thanks for the tip Bob. I also deleted some of the ghosted USB ports mentioning devices no longer in use. Whether that also helped is a moot point. So like you Bob, i’ll do that now for each project ......’.. Best, J

Many thanks for your suggestions, tried and tested but no luck. one thing i am getting now is an error box when opening a Dim Pro stand alone : Box is called “ midilnOpen[] ” with a message “error opening midi device”, I then select Oxygen 61 and it plays fine Thanks, J

Thanks for the test, but nope, nothing ! J

Hello, I have this M-Audio keyboard that used to work fine in Sonar and in Cakewalk. I play it through a soft synth. After not using it for a a month or so I fired it up in a project and I can't get any sound through Dimension Pro. Here's what I've done to trouble shoot : * Updates : both W10 Pro and Cakewalk are fully updated. The unit has the latest firmware - there are no drivers for it - its class compliant * Opened up the stand-alone version of Dim Pro (and also Rapture ) and lo and behold I can get sound, so the keyboard is sending a signal. I also checked with Midi Ox. * Checked the I/O routing : Midi track input (Oxygen Omni, I, 2, etc I've tried them all) sending via the Dim Pro Stereo output. Audio track has the Primary Stereo out of Dim Pro selected as in , output going to master (I've tried different sound device outputs, to no avail. Input Echo is on. * Tried using other soft synths (eg : Lounge Lizzard - stand alone works fine, VST in Cakewalk does not. * Moved all the sliders, nobs, pads etc one by one, no luck. * Searched on the old Sonar website and this one for inspiration, no luck. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ? Its certainly user error, as the thing plays in stand alone's, so what am I missing ? All the best, J

The driver is included in the software .exe file. In other words you install the control and the driver gets installed. shame they don’t make the driver available separately......... on my system i stll get BSOD’s with the new drivers, i had to roll back. L’ve had a ticket open with them for a few months, but they seem to be ignoring it. One of the Bakers chimed in on a previous post saying they also had reported a problem. i guess we live in hope .... Jerry

I do this for our group. I split the long recordings into manageable length projects then work on each one. To keep the same sound levels can be problematic due to things like guitarists fiddling with volume pots between quiet and loud moments, your ears will tell you what levels to use. Personally i would not use one long track, its much easier nce everything’s been split up to work on individual tracks. Others may see otherwise, but this is my workflow. Jerry

They’ve updated the USB driver in the 3.4.0 package, but don’t bother, it still gives a bad pool header and BSOD, at least on my system. In WhoCrashed, the Focusrite USB driver is still the culprit. Maybe one day...................... cheers, J

As usual from Magix the upgrade path is horrendously expensive. 149€ from SFpro 12 ..... https://www.magix.com/gb/music/sound-forge/sound-forge-pro/ Jerry

I finallyheard from Focusrite who admitted there is a problem and they are investigating. They recommend sticking with v 2.4.5. cheers, J

No, its not the same as for the 18i20 second gen https://customer.focusrite.com/support/downloads?brand=Focusrite&product_by_range=552&download_type=software cheers, J

@filo : is this driver part of the newly released 3.2.1 package from Focusrite ? If so, there’s another fred where Ben Statton from Cakewalk confirms my op. i still haven’t heard anything positive back from Focusrite. J

Ahhhhh, so I wasn’t dreaming . already logged and awaiting a reply J