Solaris re-activation

[wayne]

Hi folks - having some trouble re-activating Solaris on my new machine - says my original activation key is invalid - any leads?

[garyb]

well, maybe.
sometimes the flash rom on older cards will become corrupt and then an old key might stop working. this wouldn't necessarily be fatal, but it might take a new key made via the request string. Alex is on vacation. it might be tough to get a new key right away, but if you need one, write support, identify yourself and give the serial number of the card and the Solaris request string and i'll see what i can do to expedite a key(assuming that's the issue).

what os is the new machine?

[wayne]

Hey Gary - thanks - it's Win 7 32bit.

It's cool, I'll wait a while, let Alex relax, and send the string, no hurry here. I've recently borrowed a keyboard with AT (which my ancient controller lacked), so my first thought was solaris

Music making has been very old school here for a year or so (since the old Scope machine went down) - which is where I live as you know, but we got an old upright piano in that time, and I've been smashing out Monk on it every day, and it proves to me that a house is not a home without one.

I'm just trying to get my head around having a cool system again. I've started by making some sax quartet arrangements in Finale for my brother who lives on the other side of the country in the bush. Evidently there's a bunch of saxophonists out there I'm giving them some lesser-known Monk tunes - "Ask Me Now", "Reflections", "Something In Blue", maybe a Monk blues too. Beautiful forest and rivers up there - I like the idea of some bent sax ringing through the trees.

Best wishes to ya Gaz, W

[garyb]

you too, Wayne!

as always, you're doing cool, cool things...

[garyb]

Wayne, i just wanted to be sure that you were installing the v5 version of Solaris from here:
ftp://sonic-core.net/software/scope5/plugins/ZARG/

[neuromantik]

Well playing around with the Zarg plugins on my Xite-1, I've encountered a couple of bugs regarding Solaris (also I got a BSoD running Ambientv3 but I was loading presets quite quickly so I'll let that one go)

- I'm getting this weird dsp error message : "Can't find DSP file JBCtrlSh VxD - Please check installation". I'm running Win7x64 and I'm well aware of the whole zarg 64bit issue (although I never had to deal with it until now). I have ALL of the files loaded in App/Sys and App/Vxd...

- Sometimes when changing presets I'm being asked to register Solaris again, however this time the key I entered in previously doesn't work anymore (I'm hoping the 1st issue is the cause for the 2nd)

I probably should be asking S|C directly but I'm reaching out here beforehand because I'm sure that Gary is being swamped with activation duties and well NSA2 deal is so sweet that I don't want to start complaining right away about not getting it to work

[garyb]

did you get the 64bit files from here?

ftp://sonic-core.net/software/scope5/pl ... ions/Zarg/

i didn't link to those in the first batch of orders, sorry....

vxd files should NOT be used in win7/win8. those os require sys files, but the system calls them vxd....

[Bud Weiser]

(also I got a BSoD running Ambientv3 but I was loading presets quite quickly so I'll let that one go)

Just a note:
I have some of the smaller ZARG synths running on XITE-1 and one of these is Ambient v3.
Never had a BSoD !
It just plays ...

Win XP Pro SP3 on XITE-1

Bud

[mausmuso]

I am encountering BSOD's when changing performance and shaper presets on Q-Wave.
win 7 pro 64 bit, Scope 5.1 xite-1.
its happened twice now!
Hope this can be overcome, loving the synths!
Back to testing.
maus

[neuromantik]

did you get the 64bit files from here?

ftp://sonic-core.net/software/scope5/pl ... ions/Zarg/

i didn't link to those in the first batch of orders, sorry....

vxd files should NOT be used in win7/win8. those os require sys files, but the system calls them vxd....

I downloaded the sys files from that location. I keep on getting the annoying dialog box when either loading QWave or Solaris however after a couple of clicks acknowledging that it can't find the necessary files, it seems to work (barely under certain presets and only if I caress my Xite )

What files are no longer needed then? Perhaps it would be best to simply create 2 seperate zip files, one for x64 and one for x86, because I'm confused on which files I need to keep and which ones may be causing problems. Can anyone running Solaris (without issues) on Win7 x64 simply take a snapshot of their SCOPE/App dir? The command on DOS would be `dir /s "C:\Program Files\SCOPE\App" JB*`, or something of the sort.

Thanks!

[garyb]

how did you end up with an app\vxd folder in win7 64?

are you running Scope "as administrator"?

[neuromantik]

Well the ZARG_Q-Wave.zip archive contains many *.sys and *.vxd files, and the same for ZARG_Solaris v5_0.zip except only JBCtrlSh.sys and JBCtrlSh.vxd. Since these are zip archives and not installers I just extracted the archives in to the SCOPE install directory and voilà: I have vxd files, sys files and 64 bit sys files in the same dir tree.

I didn't try running as Administrator though, will try.

[neuromantik]

Running as admin did the trick! Thanks Gary, didn't know it was the same as with the SDK

[garyb]

vista/win7 and win8 ALL require Scope to be in Administrator mode to access system resources like ram. always run Scope "as administrator", it's part of security in the os.