New confused Noah owner with the usual questions
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:43 am
Hi everybody,
I'm new to this forum and I recently bought a used Noah EX off ebay. Although the device is working well in stand-alone mode, I'm having some trouble setting up the software and installing new devices. I tried to read as many posts here but I'm still confused, so I have a few questions which you've probably heard a few times before.
Let me first explain what I did so far. My question are below, skip the following long-ish narration if you want.
My Creamware Noah EX came with the following devices installed:
- B2003
- Interpole
- Lightwave
- Minmax
- Pro One
- Sixstring
- Vectron Player
- Vocodizer
Firmware version 1.0 was installed on the Noah. My computer runs Windows XP Pro SP3.
- I downloaded everything from ftp://creamware.de/software/Noah
- I installed the drivers in Noa_1.1/Driver/USB
- I Installed Noah Remote Software by running Noah_1.1/Setup.exe
- I ran the software and Set->Registry didn't show any keys.
- I then used Settings->Update->Update... to update the Noah to Firmware 1.4.23
- I then noticed that the Remote GUI for the Pro One and the AuxFX wouldn't load or show up in NRS anymore.
- After some research I decide to install all the devices from the nokeysOXEfiles_for_NOAH_PC directory. I placed them in the C:\Programe\Noah\App\oxe directory and started the NRS application. There were a few errors about not being able to copy some files but the new devices were apparently installed successfully. The sofwtare told me to use the Synchronizer to update preset, which I tried, but clicking "Synchronize..." didn't seem to do anything.
- Now I got the GUI for all the devices, including Pro One and the new synths (EDS8i, Profit 5, Prodyssey, Vectron), but the AuxFX slot was still empty. No sound from any of the new devices but Pro One fully works now.
- Interestingly, only Prodyssey shows a little red key symbol in the far right corner in the Synchronizer window.
- I then ran Settings->Update-Update... again to install the new devices on the Noah, which ran without problems. Still no sound or presets showing up on the Noah for the new devices.
My questions now:
- How do I fix the missing AuxFX GUI?
- How do I synchronize the preset to the Noah? How is the Synchronizer supposed to work?
- From what I already read on this forum I suppose I need to ask sonic-core or Ralph Dressel (why him?) for the keys for the EDS8i, the Profit 5, Prodyssey and Vectron, right? Do I need to provide anything besides the Serial No. from Set->Registry?
- Is it normal that Set->Registry doesn't show any keys? All the devices that were pre-installed work normally though.
- The level of the analog output seems rather low. Is this normal? I put the GAIN switch on the back to "High" already.
- The Noah ASIO driver doesn't work with my DAW software. So far I tried Tracktion 3 and Reaper 4. Tracktion lets me select the Noah ASIO driver but doesn't start palyback when it's enabled. Reaper crashes when I try to use the Noah ASIO driver! Anyone successfully using the Noah ASIO driver? I can use teh Noah as a sound output via DirectSound e.g. from VLC though.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Chris
I'm new to this forum and I recently bought a used Noah EX off ebay. Although the device is working well in stand-alone mode, I'm having some trouble setting up the software and installing new devices. I tried to read as many posts here but I'm still confused, so I have a few questions which you've probably heard a few times before.
Let me first explain what I did so far. My question are below, skip the following long-ish narration if you want.
My Creamware Noah EX came with the following devices installed:
- B2003
- Interpole
- Lightwave
- Minmax
- Pro One
- Sixstring
- Vectron Player
- Vocodizer
Firmware version 1.0 was installed on the Noah. My computer runs Windows XP Pro SP3.
- I downloaded everything from ftp://creamware.de/software/Noah
- I installed the drivers in Noa_1.1/Driver/USB
- I Installed Noah Remote Software by running Noah_1.1/Setup.exe
- I ran the software and Set->Registry didn't show any keys.
- I then used Settings->Update->Update... to update the Noah to Firmware 1.4.23
- I then noticed that the Remote GUI for the Pro One and the AuxFX wouldn't load or show up in NRS anymore.
- After some research I decide to install all the devices from the nokeysOXEfiles_for_NOAH_PC directory. I placed them in the C:\Programe\Noah\App\oxe directory and started the NRS application. There were a few errors about not being able to copy some files but the new devices were apparently installed successfully. The sofwtare told me to use the Synchronizer to update preset, which I tried, but clicking "Synchronize..." didn't seem to do anything.
- Now I got the GUI for all the devices, including Pro One and the new synths (EDS8i, Profit 5, Prodyssey, Vectron), but the AuxFX slot was still empty. No sound from any of the new devices but Pro One fully works now.
- Interestingly, only Prodyssey shows a little red key symbol in the far right corner in the Synchronizer window.
- I then ran Settings->Update-Update... again to install the new devices on the Noah, which ran without problems. Still no sound or presets showing up on the Noah for the new devices.
My questions now:
- How do I fix the missing AuxFX GUI?
- How do I synchronize the preset to the Noah? How is the Synchronizer supposed to work?
- From what I already read on this forum I suppose I need to ask sonic-core or Ralph Dressel (why him?) for the keys for the EDS8i, the Profit 5, Prodyssey and Vectron, right? Do I need to provide anything besides the Serial No. from Set->Registry?
- Is it normal that Set->Registry doesn't show any keys? All the devices that were pre-installed work normally though.
- The level of the analog output seems rather low. Is this normal? I put the GAIN switch on the back to "High" already.
- The Noah ASIO driver doesn't work with my DAW software. So far I tried Tracktion 3 and Reaper 4. Tracktion lets me select the Noah ASIO driver but doesn't start palyback when it's enabled. Reaper crashes when I try to use the Noah ASIO driver! Anyone successfully using the Noah ASIO driver? I can use teh Noah as a sound output via DirectSound e.g. from VLC though.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Chris