Sibelius users need help

[mech289]

I have just installed Sibelius 5.2 on my PC. I have been on the phone with support for hours now. They are telling me I need to run it through the Vista audio card, and a midi mapper and not my M-Audio. It starts once and after closing the program cannot be started again, locks my computer up. And they are telling me this is the problem..Can anybody tell me there set up. I am using the Vienna ensemble, windows vista with 4gb of ram. Best, Joseph

[mech289]

Anybody?

[cm]

vista audio card? this should read either vista audio drivers or onboard audio card i'd assume, though i don't understand why not use the M-Audio (except the M-Audio drivers for VISTA are beta, not working at all, ect ..) btw: we are talking about VISTA 32 - yes?

you should be able to insert VE2 (not VE3!) directly into sibelius without any MIDI mapper (which means virtual midi port assumably) - you might be actually able to use the Special Edition soundset for sibelius 5.2 for your SE woodwinds ....

maybe start at a lower level first: does you M-Audio soundcard play anything from an audio track without freezing the machine?

also make sure you don't have configured some MIDI-loop - this often locks machines without obviuosly noticeable reason ...

hth, christian

[mech289]

Thanks CM for the reply. Yes my M-Audio card works fine. And I did not need a midi mapper as Sibelius support had told me. I just had to do some editing in the VST plugin folders in the registry. All is up and running fine. Best, Joseph