I continue to have problems with my Pro Audio 9 AND Home Studio 9. Both programs hang up when a midi file is stopped in progress. The Task Manager says NOT RESPONDING and I have to close the program to get the stuck notes to stop.

I loaded Home Studio thinking a new program would not give me a problem. It sticks too. My Power Tracks and VanBasco players work just fine.

It has to be something with Cakewalk. I've tried other forums, but no response. C'mon guys, I've got a job next week and I need my cw9.

Alright, a couple of things:

1). Click on Start, click on Run, type in MSCONFIG and click on OK. On the General tab, put the bullet in Selective Startup and uncheck Load Startup Items. This will disable any programs that start during bootup (in the Run key of the registry and the Startup folders). Click OK and reboot the machine and try Cakewalk again. We're looking to see if the problem is caused by another program running in the background. (?)

Still doesn't work, go through the above procedure again and uncheck the Selective Startup bullet and reboot. (puts things back)

2). There could be a bad setting in the 'aud.ini' file found in the Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 folder. You can delete the file and start Cakewalk to create a new one, rename it to 'aud.old' and then start Cakewalk to create a new one, or open the existing file in Notepad and delete all entries after the PictureDir entry.

(cut & paste from my setup)

[Aud]
DataDir=D:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Pro Audio 9\WaveData
PictureDir=D:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Pro Audio 9\Picture Cache
PicCacheMB=20
CopyOnImport=1
ReadCache=0
WriteCache=0
ClipMix=1
VolMethod=0
PanMethod=0
DiskBufSize=64
DiskRecBufSize=64
DiskBuffers=32
Dither=1
ZeroFillMethod=2
MixScheme=0

I'm assuming you did try a reinstall. Did you delete all the folders so as to start fresh? If so, then I doubt if step #2 will make a difference since you probably did create a new file during first-time startup.

Hmmm, you gotta good one here.

-mike

Yikes! Mike, I tried both suggestions and still no change. I even installed a new Sigma Tel sound driver from Dell, disabled and re-enabled my VSC-3 driver and switched my GS Wavetable Synth off aqnd on.

Again, my other midi programs work fine. This program is hanging up. Why??? Urgh!!!

You might check that "Zero Controllers" is set in Project Options. Otherwise, a call to Cakewalk might be in order.

Regards,

Michael

Yet it use to work, right?

Maybe a system restore back to previous date might erase the problem. (?)

-mike

1. Go in to the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools, Event viewer, open the Hardware and Applications records, and it should give you an idea of where the problem lies, (Double click the error message to get more details) and where to look to fix it.
2. Is it just the program that hangs or the whole computer, if it is the program, then you may need more memory, as from what I gather Cakewalk is very memory hungry, if it is the computer then it is more likely a memory conflict, and will show up in the event viewer.
3. Right click My Computer, select Properties, Advanced tab, Performance settings, Advanced tab, Virtual Memory Change, and make sure it is set to either system managed size, or at least 3 times the amount of memory you have installed. If you have more then one drive or partition, then move the paging file to a drive or partition that does not contain the operating system.
Hope this helps.

Bill

It looks llike the hanging problem goes back to 10/24. Previous to that I was having some kind of problem with my VSC32 program. I have disabled and enabled that sound source many times. Maybe I need to uninstall it.

Hanging application cwpa.exe, version 9.3.0.660, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

Here's more - Once I press play I can continue to adjust and change patches, banks, tempo. I can even load another song. But once the original song stops - anywhere, even before the midi file plays - the program hangs up. Sometime using Ctrl+Alt+Del will free it up. At other times I have to wait for the Task Manager to close it.

This could be a driver problem, so uninstall all drivers from your sound control hardware, restart the computer and let windows install them again in the order that windows requires.
Make sure you have the latest direct X software, (9c) use Windows Update to check and at the same time see if there are any Hardware Updates.
Go into Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information and on the Tools Menu, select Direct X Diagnostic tool and see if any problems show up there.
With the software you are running make sure you have at least a 2.5 GHz CPU and 1 GB of Ram.
Hope this helps.

Bill

Bill, I may do that but not yet. All of the drivers seem to be working properly everywhere else, including on Power Tracks, VanBasco, Real Player, Creative media Souurce and Windows Media Player.

The program is hanging up pretty much on its own. But you have given me valuable info before, so maybe it's time to give this route a try too. It's just that I'm reluctant to try it - it's like pounding a nail into a wall; can't do that too easily either. Give me strength...