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For some time I have had a problem in that i had to manually start the Audio engines before starting Synfire or the "Audio engine does not report back" flag would appear. This was discussed on the forum some time ago but despite reinstalling Synfire many times the problem could not be sorted.
Whist pondering this (another few hours wasted) the solution was obvious - Synfire calls the engines up as executable files so may need administative rights (if you don't know how to do this, find the Synfirepro.exe file in the appropriate cognitone directory, right click, compatability, Run as administrator).
Problem solved.. I am not sure but I do not recall seeing any mention of this requirement in the manual or any of the setup files so there may be a lot of people experiencing this problem and simply giving up using the internal engines.
What is peculiar however, is that the problem only occurred suddenly (the Engines had prevously been working fine) so could it be caused by the automatic updates?
So my suggetions are;
1. Make users aware of this requirement during setup.
2. Check if the updates affect the administor rights.
Tue, 2014-02-11 - 12:30 Permalink
Thank you!
Synfire works on a clean Windows installation, so the cause of the problem may be some other software. A security or anti virus utility perhaps?
Tue, 2014-02-11 - 19:52 Permalink
Thank you Supertonic.
No idea. I use Bitdefender and have not had any similar problems. What is strange is that it worked ok and then the problem suddendly occurred. If I recall correctly, that was the time when there were quite a few upgrades to the latest Synfire version, which is what made me suspect that could be the problem. There was someone else that was also having a similar problem on the forum at the time. But thank you for your reply.