UniWire questions

[DanTimis]

Steniberg MI4 and a variety of M-Audio interfaces. We have someone using a MOTU firewire interface (I'm not sure which one) with a Mac.

[aiit]

Im getting an "EAccessViolation" error message box when I try to run Receptor as a VST Plug in on Windows XP in Audio Mulch.
Any one run in to this problem?

It pops up when I click on the "Launch Receptor Remote" button on the UI.

[philosorhymes]

Steniberg MI4 and a variety of M-Audio interfaces. We have someone using a MOTU firewire interface (I'm not sure which one) with a Mac.

Ok I have a slight problem, the backup interface that I own does not have S/PDIF I/O on it and it seems there is no way to use uniwire without S/PDIF. Is that correct to say?

[DanTimis]

Ok I have a slight problem, the backup interface that I own does not have S/PDIF I/O on it and it seems there is no way to use uniwire without S/PDIF. Is that correct to say?

You don't need to have an S/PDIF connection if you do not enable the Audio+MIDI card. That is the default when you enable UniWire.

[philosorhymes]

Ok so my second interface is an Edirol UA20. I went through the same process, and I got the same results. May I ask what exact release of cubase you are testing with? I am using, 3.1.1 Build 944 (built Oct 13 2005).

Thanks again.

[DanTimis]

I have 3.1.0 build 933 on my Mac. I'll have to check the Windows verrsion.

[DanTimis]

Could you try two more things? First, hold down the MULTI button on the front panel and tripple-click the POWER button. This will reset mosst of the Receptor settings. If this does not work, click on "Output" at the bottom of a Receptor channel, it will open the Output Assignments panel. Click on one of the Master Bus assignments on the top row, the click the Defaults button. This might fix the UniWire output assignments if they are disabled somehow.

[philosorhymes]

Hi Dan, I've tried what you said but to no avail. But to be honest I don't think the problem is in the box itself. I believe it is more to do with the uniwire plugin and cubase environment. I say this because after restarting cubase (I normally have to force cubase to shutdown as it is always frozen), I can load up a single instance of uniwire and the audio will stream from the receptor fine i.e. I never reset muse at all.

Here is something interesting, I re-installed the latest patch, and momentarily things began to work, but for some reason the mute button on each uniwire plugin kept turning itself on at will and then things died and returned to normal.

Any thoughts? Thanks for your patience and perseverance.

[philosorhymes]

I have 3.1.0 build 933 on my Mac. I'll have to check the Windows verrsion.

I've reverted to version 3.1.0 of cubase. I am getting better audio out, but still there is a problem that i call mutually exclusive audio. As always I have two instances of uniwire in cubase. If I click the MIDI track assigned to U1, U2, automatically gets muted. (I mean in the actual VST panel, not on the MIDI track) likewise, When I try and unmute U2 (in the vst panel) U1 becomes muted. At no time can I get U1 and U2 to play audio together.

Is it just me having these problems? I've literally done a clean install of cubase.

[philosorhymes]

Hi Dan, just wondering if you had time to check out my findings?

[DanTimis]

The only way I can reproduce this is to solo one of the tracks. When I click on the other track, the solo moves to the selected track. I get "mutually exclusive audio" But, if I take the MIDI track out of "solo" mode I hear both tracks. Then, I can click on either track and I still hear both.

[VIP Music]

Hi Dan,

A question regarding Word Clock.

There aren't any Word Clock I/O's on the Receptor so how does one hook it up in a multi-digital setup all locked to a master source WC (Apogee Big Ben)?

I'm not sure that hooking up the Receptor's spdif input to the Big Ben's spdif output actually sends 'Word Clock' . I always thought the spdif and aes/ebu in/outs on the Big Ben were for converting different formats (i.e. aes/ebu > spdif, and spdif > aes/ebu).

Can you shed some light on this matter?

Thanks.

[DanTimis]

I don't know the Apogee Big Ben, but the specs would indicate that it converst S/PDIF to world clock. Maybe you should email Apogee.

[VIP Music]

I don't know the Apogee Big Ben, but the specs would indicate that it converst S/PDIF to world clock. Maybe you should email Apogee.

Yeah, the specs aren't that clear on that. AFAIK, it's for converting from one format (aes/ebu, spdif) and rate (44.1/48) to another....

But I'll find what I can and I'll post back here....

[tjodoin]

http://www.apogeedigital.com/support/do ... w=bigben#1

The primary function of all the digital outputs on the Big Ben is precisely the application you need, to tramsmit clock! Thus, there are a total of 10 clock outputs (6 BNC, 1 optical,1 S/PDIF and two AES).