Presonus V-Fire issues

[Robert Peterson]

Running a PC DAW with a M-Audio 1010 PCI card, Cakewalk Sonar 6, and a recently purchased V-Fire to transfer audio off my Roland VS2480. Used to have a RME 9636 Lightpipe card and Roland's R-Bus to ADAT/TDIF converter box for the same purpose.

My problem is that my computer sees and can talk to the v-fire, but Sonar either will not show it or when it does show the v-fire i cannot select inputs from either my 1010 or the v-fire. Anyone else battle this issue? I know its got to be a setting issue somewhere in Sonar, but why it would change from time to time is beyond me. I have even once managed to record about 10 seconds of audio before it dropped out and hasnt been heard from since.
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks

[muziekschuur]

You need to set the driver to WDM. Or else it will not work. ASIO will only accept one driver.

You can use the asio4all driver as test.


Muziekschuur

[Robert Peterson]

It already is, has been forever because of the RME card before it.

[muziekschuur]

Are both drivers installed?

Are they active in the system (no ? there)

Has the machine rebooted after install (s)


Muziekschuur

[Robert Peterson]

yes, both are installed, the computer sees them fine and has been restarted numerous times.

[muziekschuur]

Is the driver visible in Sonar, and selected. (both)

[Robert Peterson]

nope, and there's the problem. that seems to be without a solution.

[shanabit]

Try here bro

VS-Planet BBS: VS-2480 Forum

[muziekschuur]

I've opened Sonar 6.21 for you.

Go to: OPTIONS>AUDIO

Go to ADVANCED

Tick WDM.

GO TO DRIVERS

SELECT ALL.

RESTART.


Now see if in/outputs work.

[Robert Peterson]

Nope. Still can't see the v-fire in sonar. also, both the v-fire, Sonar, and the 1010 are set to the same sample rate, fyi.

[muziekschuur]

Does the v-fire HAVE WDM drivers? Isn't it an ASIO only driver?

[Robert Peterson]

I'm under the impression that it'll run both. however i can easily live with using asio to access the v-fire, then switching to wdm for editing with the 1010. so far even that's been quite hit and miss.

[muziekschuur]

I checked the manual. It refers to ASIO only.

So that leaves you with either ASIO4ALL.com to test or, perhaps the Centrance driver.

I think using the two soundcards together will not work.

Oh yeah, off topic, there is a remote controll DLL available so the VS2480 can remote controll Sonar. You'll need the SI24.dll, check rolandus.com .


Hope this helps,


Muziekschuur

[Robert Peterson]

Thanks, i'll check the asio4all driver.

Much as I love my little Roland board, these transfer limits are getting highly annoying and i've been toying with moving either to the Alesis HD24xr or the Tascam X48- both of which sport ethernet or firewire connections That and 16 channels just isnt cutting it anymore at my live recording gigs.

Thanks for all the help, i'll give it a shot once i get back to the rig.

[muziekschuur]

To get the WDM template & ASIO template working you need to save both as different empty templates.


Muziekschuur