If you want to use additional hardware for recording and playback, make sure the corresponding driver software for the Apple SoundManager is installed. Refer to the manufacturers documentation you received with your hardware on how to install the sound driver. If the sound driver for the Apple SoundManager was installed properly, you should be able to choose your external hardware as standard input/output in the control panel "Sound".
Please note that sonicWORX Artist does not support compressed AIFF-C files. Since most of the compression schemes widely used are of really inferior audio quality we will not support them in the foreseeable future.
Please note: you really should have SoundManager 3.0 or higher to guarantee a problem-free behaviour of external hardware and sound playback. If you don't have it and use sonicWORX on a 8bit machine you might not be able to hear anything from your sounds at all. We also strongly recommend using system 7.1 or higher. Don't blame us for crashes if you are running an ancient system version.
If you are running sonicWORX on a 68k-based Macintosh and processing seems to be excruciatingly slow, read the description of the preferences dialog.
The algorithms are optimized to work with audio material having a sample rate of 44.1 or 48.0 kHz. If you are using material that was sampled at a different sample rate, you should convert it to 44.1 kHz prior to processing since some of the plug-ins (i.e. Virtual Room) may produce audible artifacts when used with a different sample rate. Also, the audio quality may deteriorate slightly for most of the plug-ins since they are using lower quality routines for handling sample rates other than 44.1 and 48.0kHz.
Troubleshooting
* sonicWORX displays the message "The sonicWORX Plug-Ins require an FPU to work, which is not present on this machine" during startup.
sonicWORX requires a hardware FPU (Floating Point Unit, a math co-processor) to be installed in your computer. We suggest you to buy one from your Macintosh dealer, otherwise you won't be able to use the sonicWORX plug-in modules. We strongly advise you not to use SoftwareFPU or similar products since they will not work reliably with sonicWORX.
If you are a PowerMac user, these things do not apply to you.
* I experience drop outs and clicks during playback.
Try turning virtual memory off. This is done using the control panel "Memory" found in the control panel folder in your system folder. You should always have (but you do not have to) virtual memory turned off when working with sonicWORX to ensure a problem-free playback and recording process.
If turning off virtual memory doesn't cure the problem, it is very likely coming from your audio hardware or the sound manager driver software. Try getting the latest driver software from your audio hardware manufacturer and make sure you are always using the latest Apple SoundManager version.
* There are plug-ins in the "sonicWORX Plug-Ins" folder that do not show in the algorithms menu.
These Plug-Ins are probably PowerMac-only applications. Some Plug-Ins need very extensive numerical calculations and were partly programmed in RISC-assembler to ensure utmost processing speed. These Plug-Ins cannot be used with 68k-based Macintoshes and will not show in the algorithms menu.
