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KVR Forum [Instruments] » Archive » Instruments » June 2002 Index | KVRFA1
AuthorTopic: Battery and Kontakt demos don't work for me
JarJarBinks
Posted: 1st June 2002 21:05
Hm. Reaktor has always worked, never had a problem with the dongle either except for a couple of brief flashes that went by too quick to see but seemed to "searching for..." kind of things. The problem with M-Audio ASIO and Reaktor seems to gone with the latest Audiophile drivers, disabling the multiclient function stops the screaming sound I used to get.

But the Kontakt demo crashes the computer and the Battery demo won't open at all. The Battery problem seems to be ASIO related- as a standalone it won't open and says that some other app has the soundcard (doesn't). It'll open as a VSTi in different hosts no problem, until the host is switched to ASIO driver then it's reboot time!

[Frown]
Hypertone
Posted: 2nd June 2002 06:08
I had that problem with Battery. I had to do some registry tweaking and basically make Battery start without a soundcard driver selected, otherwise it would never come up on the screen.
MrGrooves
Posted: 2nd June 2002 06:25
Hypertone: I have the same problem with my aardvark and NI demo's. They always want to grab the MME drivers first and then crash inmediatly. They won't even let me switch to asio. How do you proceed to do this registry settings?
Hypertone
Posted: 2nd June 2002 07:20
quote:
Originally posted by MrGrooves:
Hypertone: I have the same problem with my aardvark and NI demo's. They always want to grab the MME drivers first and then crash inmediatly. They won't even let me switch to asio. How do you proceed to do this registry settings?
I cant remember exactly what I did, It was basically trial and error. I dont have access to my audio puter right now, but when I get a chance Ill look in the registry and see if I can remember what I did. I have an Aardvark card too btw with XP. Id say they still have some bugs to iron out on their drivers. ASIO is good, but MME and DX apps are sketchy on the Aardvark.
Steffen Fuerst
Posted: 2nd June 2002 10:26
Open Regedit, goto Local Machine/Software/Native Instruments/Product Name, change Key AudioPort to None. This should help.

Bye,
Steffen
JarJarBinks
Posted: 2nd June 2002 11:02
quote:
Originally posted by Steffen Fuerst:
Open Regedit, goto Local Machine/Software/Native Instruments/Product Name, change Key AudioPort to None. This should help.

Bye,
Steffen
Thanks! Strangley enough there is no Native Instruments folder or file of any kind in Local Machine (I've got Reaktor and the latest NI demos loaded) but it's all under "Current User". There are strange things in the registry, things I never loaded [Eek!] Cakewalk folder? There's never been any Cakewalk anything on the computer AFAIK...no cracks either, it's my darling super-clean audio-only studio computer. Time for some registry sweep action [Mad]

Anyway Battery demo is now fully functioning! It still briefly shows the audio port message, then loads right up. The envelope grapics are genius- very intuitive.
Hypertone
Posted: 2nd June 2002 19:06
Try this:

HKEY Current User>Native Instruments>Battery

Then make the "audioport" value blank

Make "audio running" value "no"

Make "MME OUT PORT" blank

Make "MME IN PORT" blank

This should make it possible to open up Battery. When you open it make sure audio is not running, then select your audio port, wait about 10 seconds and enable audio. This should do it. I havent tried Kontakt, but I imagine it would be the same.
catskinhead
Posted: 9th June 2002 21:42
kazaa.com
xfer
Posted: 10th June 2002 03:07
wich Aardvark card do you have hypertone?
logoslogos
Posted: 10th June 2002 08:05
I have the same problem. I use an Audiophile 24/96 and have had no such problems w/ any NI product before. But when trying to load Kontakt, I get the message "the kontakt did not initialize". Furthermore, when I tried to open Cubase, it wouldn't start. So I removed Kontakt and that problem went away.

So I check my reg. Interestingly, I find nothing under HKEY/Local Machine/Software/Native Instruments. For me to find anything in the reg for NI, I had to look under Current User/Software. I found the Kontakt entries there, and tried a few tweaks to no avail. Tried the ones above. Tried copying my entries related to the sound and soundcard from Battery and Pro 52, but no luck either.

So...is this a serious bug in their program? Or is there a fix? I emailed NI, but no response.

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