Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Harry7139
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Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Here we go with Windows again... Everything was fine on Monday... Got Windows Tues. update now nothing in Mix craft works.. Hit play and it does nothing...I have downloaded the latest Mixcraft 8 Pro software as well.. I am running Windows 10 , I -7, 16GB Ram and 2 -2 TB hard drives... Focusrite 18/20 i interface.. Neither the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version of MC work.. Has anyone had this issue with Mixcraft being unresponsive after this latest update ? Would appreciate any help you may be able to provide.... Thanks !! :D
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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Hi,

Go into Mixcraft's sound device preferences and check your playback device setting.

If that doesn't help, are you using WaveRT, ASIO or Wave? What is your playback device?

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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Hi Greg .. My playback device is my Focusrite 18/ i 20... I am using the latest Focusrite ASIO driver for my playback device setting...same settings I have always used.. all worked fine until Windows did its update thing today.. I also updated my MXC Pro to the latest version today...could MXC possibly be the problem? One strange thing I notice now is that when I start Mixcraft it loads all of my plugins...but then goes to a totally white screen for a few seconds before it loads the project screen.. I have never noticed that before... strange...lol
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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Hi,

Are you using ASIO mode? Check your hardware connections. You've got headphones plugged into the Focusrite?

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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Using ASIO as I always have... Headphones are not plugged in to my interface. I don't think it would matter anyway as when I hit the "Play" button on a loaded project it does nothing. It does not play (line start scrolling) on the MXC interface.. Play button does nothing at all now... just changes to square and thats it....so if the scrolling line does not begin to move through the project when you hit play I would assume there will be no sound regardless... I am just trying to get my project to actually start playing when I hit play - then I can worry about the sound stuff later...lol :D
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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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Well I uninstalled the windows update by using a system restore date... That seemed to correct things for now...all is well again. Im just not sure how long I can stop windows from wanting to reinstall this update...so I think Im just gonna disconnect from the net for a while...lol Thanks for your reply !

Harry :D
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Could it be that the Windows sound preferences changed? Right click speaker in toolbar, select playback devices, choose your device, properties, then advanced and see if those settings are the ones you're using with your focusrite.

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Re: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio won't play...

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That's what it sounds like to me, and no pun intended. That is the only time that I've seen MC do that is when something is wrong with my sound setup. I bet somehow your settings got changed somewhere, or perhaps your audio drivers could be having issues with the windows/MC updates.
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