E-Maculation

When I try and run Prosoniq Studio Power Bundle, downloaded from http://products.prosoniq.com/cgi-bin/re ... il&refno=9, I either get a system freeze if I use a PowerMac 7200 ROM or it complains it can't find any sound driver if I use a Mac OS8.6 supplied ROM.

I am using a dual-Athlon64 PC. I have Sheepshaver installed on Mandriva 2007 64-bit from the supplied SheepShaver-2.3-0.20051130.1mdk rpm. I have installed Mac OS 8.6 with all default options.

I use the "Sound" control panel to enable the sound when using the Mac OS 8.6 ROM. Speech and system beeps work but there doesn't seem to be any sound input device, only output, and Prosoniq complains it can't find any sound device.

With the 7200 ROM, sound works and the Sound control panel also shows an input device, but as soon as Sonic Worx loads the ASIO driver, the MacOS system freezes and one of my CPUs maxes out at 100% load. I have to kill Sheepshaver.

I tried removing the ASIO driver to see if I could coax Sonic Worx to function without it but alas, it insists on using it.

Anyone know how I might be able to get this thing to work? Do I need to try another ROM (I haven't found any others yet)? Are there other ASIO drivers I can try?

Regards

Hi,

There is no audio hardware available in SheepShaver. All devices are emulated, so it's "normal" a driver can't find a real device.

But I downloaded your application and tried it. It seems to run well. I can copy f.e. an audio track from a cd in OSX to MacOS 9 and edit it with SonicWorX. After saving it, I can copy it to OSX (in my case) and run it in i-Tunes. So editing and moving the file twice didn't break the format.
I can, however, not play the file inside MacOS9.

Hope this helps somehow,

Best wishes,
Cat_7

Hmmm. But shouldn't an emulator pretend to be the hardware with enough cunning that the guest software & drivers can't tell it apart from the real thing?

I'll try one or two other ROMs then the next step in this quest is to try MacOS X on PearPC. However I am less keen on that idea since it is a much larger resources overhead on the host OS to get Prosoniq working.

simonb wrote:Hmmm. But shouldn't an emulator pretend to be the hardware with enough cunning that the guest software & drivers can't tell it apart from the real thing?

Sure. Feel free to submit the necessary code changes to SheepShaver to achieve this behaviour.

Myrd wrote: Sure. Feel free to submit the necessary code changes to SheepShaver to achieve this behaviour.

Thanks.

I was just questioning what appeared to me to be the notion that emulation was somehow inherently unable to emulate.

I don't know why I don't feel so free to submit the code to fix it. I mean, what's stopping me? It's as easy as falling off a log

get this, it is a driver that is supposed to be for Classic under OS X - but it works with SheepShaver! :)

http://www.prosoniq.com/pub/unsupported ... sio090.zip

tomax wrote:get this, it is a driver that is supposed to be for Classic under OS X - but it works with SheepShaver!

http://www.prosoniq.com/pub/unsupported ... sio090.zip

Thanks. I downloaded it but when I uncompress the zip using Stuffit I get some weird split directories with the driver being 0 bytes and a shadow of it (starting with a double-underscore) in another directory. When I copy the double-underscore version into the Prosoniq ASIO driver folder I get a system error bomb and Mac OS restarts.

Is there some new way that MacOS handles resource forks that Mac OS 8.6 doesn't understand? How do I extract the driver in a way that Mac OS 8.6 can use it?

Regards...

The zip archive does decompress normally in MacOSX, but apparently not with Stuffit in MacOS.

I changed it into an archive that should decompress correctly using Stuffit in MacOS and I added a SimpleText version of the included rtf ReadMe to the archive.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ronaldpr/sheepsha ... er.sit.hqx

Well what d'ya know, it works!

Much appreciation to Ronald and Tomax for helping me get up and running with this

Ronald, thank you very much for that upload, as the Prosoniq site no longer hosts or supports any of those files. I still haven't been able to get Sonicworx playback fully working in Classic in 10.4, but this allowed me to try, so thanks.

Edit: It is still quite useful for applying effects/plugins inside the app, exporting, then playing the file outside it.

The link is not working anymore. Does the file still exist?

Thx
Arnie

Which of the three links in this topic, which software, are you interested in?
The prosoniq site does not exist anymore and I apparently removed the asio driver file from my downloads, probably years ago.

Have no fear, for the Wayback Machine is near.

http://web.archive.org/web/201606261623 ... er.sit.hqx

Extracts fine using BetterZip.

Perfect!

Thank you very much!

so anyone got this working? i need to send audio from out of os9 into os9 and bounce it through sonicworx that possible already?