Fix: M-Audio Mobilepre and Sonar: No Sound
Mine's less shiny blue than this one
So I bought an M-Audio Mobilepre recently to use as a USB soundcard/interface for my PC Workstation. Instantly I came across some problems.
The first was that it didn’t come with Vista drivers. (I know, Vista sucks, and I should be using XP anyway. But, I’m giving it a go.) So, I had to download those from the M-Audio site.
That got it installed. It worked fine with Fruity Loops, and I could hear myself through the mic. But, I couldn’t get Sonar to work at all with it.
I went into the audio tab in Sonar, set the drivers to Asio, and … nothing.
It took me a while, but here’s what I did to “fix” the problem.
- run Msconfig, and deselect the taskbar fuction for the Mobilepre in the auto startups tab (It will probably say Avid software or something).
- Restart your computer
- done
I should work. If not, make sure that in your Master track, your output is set to your Mobilepre devise. Why a taskbar icon would pose such a problem I don’t know.
This is only a partial fix, for me however. I can’t get both Fruity Loops and Sonar to run together. I think when they’re both running, Fruity Loops is hogging the ASIO driver. So, I have to close one down to use the other … bummer! I guess I’m not going to be using Sonar to run FL Studio anytime soon.
