Trouble MixVibes + Stanton FinalScratch Open

[jurjen]

Hello everyone,

I'm kinda new with timecode. A while ago I bought a package of Stanton FinalScratch Open with MixVibes DVS. Do to my busy life it took a while before I finally had some time to fully test everything.

Initially version 6.3 was on the installation CD. It worked, although I was very disappointed that the MasterTempo didn't work. Apparantly a bug in that version, so I managed to update to 7.218. That worked fine (expect for loading the entire waveform, but that's less important for me).

I kept on testing it for a few days and it seemed finally good enough to bring to my first gig. So I left most of my cds at home, came on site, connected the cd-players to FinalScratch and FinalScratch to my laptop. And then you all guess what happened: didn't work. MixVibes refused to find my interface!

Windows saw that the interface was connected, but MixVibes kept on saying that it couldn't use the ASIO-driver, because it couldn't find my MOTU soundcard (hey, off course, because that one is still at home!)
After trying to restart the program, restart Windows, restart the ScratchAmp driver (systray), reconnect the interface in all possible combinations, I uninstalled all the MOTU drivers.

Then again trying to restart the program, restart Windows, restart the ScratchAmp driver (systray), reconnect the interface in all possible combinations, but now MixVibes was loading slower and giving some error everytime on start-up that it could not connect to some Mackie MIDI DJ-mixer (or something like that) and still no finding the interface. In the options screen it showed the FinalScratch under ASIO, but displayed gray. I could click on the ASIO button what I wanted, but it stayed on my internal soundcard.

I managed to finish the evening and with success, but I never felt so hopeless before.

What's going on?

(And, off course, now that I'm home again, it works perfectly.)

[Blackbrook]

A while ago I bought a package of Stanton FinalScratch Open with MixVibes DVS.

Can you please explain this a bit more? I do not understand what you bought. A Traktor Package with all the hard- and software or did you buy a complete traktor package before and now you switched to mixvibes with your "old" hardware???

So I left most of my cds at home, came on site, connected the cd-players to FinalScratch and FinalScratch to my laptop. And then you all guess what happened: didn't work. MixVibes refused to find my interface!

Windows saw that the interface was connected, but MixVibes kept on saying that it couldn't use the ASIO-driver, because it couldn't find my MOTU soundcard (hey, off course, because that one is still at home!)

I guess, that you plugged the audio interface to a different USB port. It is totally important, that you plug the used audio interface everytime to the same USB port because the driver is isntalled to this port. If you pluig it to a different one, there is not driver installed and so mixvibes cannot find one.

In the options screen it showed the FinalScratch under ASIO, but displayed gray. I could click on the ASIO button what I wanted, but it stayed on my internal soundcard.

This makes sense to me as I said above: Plug it to the same usb port. To me this also seems as if mixvibes did not recognize your audio interface. I do not know exactyl what is wrong but I guess that it has something to do with different drivers and multiple audio interfaces.


Please report if any suggestion works. Greetings,

Steve

[jurjen]

The shop were I bought them made a bundle of their own: the Stanton FinalScratch and MixVibes DVS for FinalScratch.

Traktor is nowhere in the picture and FinalScratch is FireWire. Since I have only one FireWire port, I can't have plugged it into the wrong port.

[abitmessie]

Hey JurJen

"restart Windows, restart the ScratchAmp driver (systray), reconnect the interface in all possible combinations, but now MixVibes was loading slower and giving some error everytime on start-up that it could not connect to some Mackie MIDI DJ-mixer (or something like that) and still no finding the interface"

This above message sounds like it cannot find your MIDI interface?
Sounds like things have got a little confused
Close Mixvibes
then using windows explorer find the install directory ie c:\program files\mixvibes
There will be a file called Reset.exe
double click that
This sets mixvibes back to all default
re open MixVibes and you will be prompted with the Install wizard
select your skin sound card etc
hopefully that gets you going if not let me know

[abitmessie]

Hey JurJen

Then again trying to restart the program, restart Windows, restart the ScratchAmp driver (systray), reconnect the interface in all possible combinations, but now MixVibes was loading slower and giving some error everytime on start-up that it could not connect to some Mackie MIDI DJ-mixer (or something like that) and still no finding the interface. In the options screen it showed the FinalScratch under ASIO, but displayed gray. I could click on the ASIO button what I wanted, but it stayed on my internal soundcard.

This above message sounds like it cannot find your MIDI interface?
Sounds like things have got a little confused
Close Mixvibes
then using windows explorer find the install directory ie c:\program files\mixvibes
There will be a file called Reset.exe
double click that
This sets mixvibes back to all default
re open MixVibes and you will be prompted with the Install wizard
select your skin sound card etc
hopefully that gets you going if not let me know

[jurjen]

I hope it works, but first I have to find out how the recreate the situation. The only thing that I did different is trying to daisy chain the FireWire...

If it can't find my Midi-interface, that must be because I don't have one. Just regular soundcards (although with built-in MIDI-port?)