"THE PERFECT MARRIAGE" KHP and EDIROL SOUND CANVAS

[ltproductions]

Hi George,

Just wondering if there's a way to capitalize all text automatically
using Wordpad which is the default text editor that comes with Windows? I've tried everything, but there's no way to change the format to uppercase as far as I can tell. Any suggestions?

Larry T.

[George]

Larry,

I use Word Perfect.

I download all my lyrics(copy and paste) into Word Perfect, convert them to caps and then copy and paste to Notepad (or Wordpad if you prefer)for use in KHP. Here's a good source for lyrics.

http://lyricsplayground.com/home.html

I believe MS WORD also has the capability to change text to caps, but I already had Word Perfect on my computers and was used to using the program.

Hope this helps.

Take care,

George

[scarlet56]

I think you have it completely wrong about Edirol Virtual Canvas.
I downloaded the trial version and found that my PC struggled to load and when it did as soon as I clicked on VSC it just froze completely.When I asked Edirol if they could help I was told that it was no good if you were using a firewall or an antivirus or too many other programmes as they could interfere with VSC.
Well I believe my firewal and antivirus are more important than VSC even though I did want to use it. Other would be uses beware you could be buying yourself a big heap of trouble

[George]

And that's why they have chocolate and vanilla ice cream, but don't presume to tell all us satisfied users we are wrong about a program that we've had no trouble with.

I'd doubt there is a single piece of software out there that someone hasn't had a problem with, so I guess the safe route is don't buy any, Windows included.

And yes, firewalls and anti virus programs are notorious for causing problems, but it's no big deal to shut one off for a brief period to use a program and then turn it back on. Why do you think Norton has made it so easy to enable/disable from the desktop for ?

Food for thought.

[scarlet56]

Perhaps if you had read my comments properly you would understand my frustration with this programme.The first problem caused by VSC is starting up I sat here pressing ctrl+alt+delete loads of times before the PC started up but as soon as I deleted VSC demo, problem solved.

[mlepine]

Originally posted by scarlet56
I think you have it completely wrong about Edirol Virtual Canvas.
I downloaded the trial version and found that my PC struggled to load and when it did as soon as I clicked on VSC it just froze completely.When I asked Edirol if they could help I was told that it was no good if you were using a firewall or an antivirus or too many other programmes as they could interfere with VSC.
Well I believe my firewal and antivirus are more important than VSC even though I did want to use it. Other would be uses beware you could be buying yourself a big heap of trouble

I would be very surprised if your antivirus or firewall is the problem? I think it's because you have too many software running in the startup tray!

I have Norton System Works Pro 2004 and Norton Firewall running at all time & it's not causing any problems.

Let us know what OS, processor & memory your running.

It's a great product that everyone who loves making it's own cdg's from midi's should have.

Regards

[jaddams]

Originally posted by Scarlet56
I think you have it completely wrong about Edirol Virtual Canvas.
I downloaded the trial version and found that my PC struggled to load and when it did as soon as I clicked on VSC it just froze completely.When I asked Edirol if they could help I was told that it was no good if you were using a firewall or an antivirus or too many other programmes as they could interfere with VSC.

Well I believe my firewal and antivirus are more important than VSC even though I did want to use it. Other would be uses beware you could be buying yourself a big heap of trouble.

Nonsense!

I have been running Edirol for a couple of years now without a single problem. I run firewalls, routers and untold numbers of other protections schemes. None interfere with Edirol's full version. Perhaps the demo does.

Maybe Mlepine is correct about other programs you may be running. You don't mention your computer type and configuration.

You are missing a great source of background music!

Best regards,

Jon

[scarlet56]

Please don't shout at me if I get this wrong.
OS--Windows 98 SE
Pocessor--AMD Athlon XP 1600+
Memory--256 MB

Everyone says it is a great programme and I would love to try it but won't buy it until I know it works.

[George]

When I asked Edirol if they could help I was told that it was no good if you were using a firewall or an antivirus or too many other programmes as they could interfere with VSC.

This answer was probably correct, and I agree with Jon and Mlepine it is more than likely too many programs running in the background, especially now that I see an AMD processor. I have nothing against AMD, but due to some patents held by Intel, AMD is forced to rely on the operating system to perform some functions that the processor ordinarily would handle. This puts a drain on the system.This is the way my PC Guru expained it to me.

All those cute little symbols on the lower right hand toolbar are orunning in the background. Close out any that you really never use or need access to when using other programs.

Click START, RUN, type in MSCONFIG, click OK. Click the START UP tab. and uncheck the programs that aren't really needed. That could be most all of them except SYSTRAY itself. Leave that one on.

Hope this gets it. If not, at least the system has been cleaned up from unnecessary running programs.

George

[scarlet56]

Looked at what you said and ticked was
ScanRegistry/ccApp/CCRegVfy/TBLFUNC/Soundman/TaskMonitor/CriticalUpdate/LoadPowerProfile/QDFastAndSafe/Zone Labs Client/ccEvtMgr/ScriptBlocking/GhostStartService/TrueVector/CSINJECT.EXE/E-Color/3Deep/E-Color Indicator/--plus there is a lot more things that are unticked.
I am not going to pretend that I know what these things are as in most cases I haven't a clue.
Can you let me know which to untick without causing myself a lot of problems. As you can probably guess I am a complete novice with my PC .
The reason I would like VSC is that I run a voluntary karaoke around old persons homes(a lot of the residents are actually younger than me) and a lot of the songs they want are not on karaoke disc so I have been using music from records and tapes etc but of course they still have the vocals on them as Vogone struggles to remove the vocals on really old music so reading the messages on here I decided to try midi files and VSC only to get the problems as explained.
cheers Les

[George]

Les,
I'm reticent to take the responsibility for you getting messed up. I don't know what most of those are either, but many of them do look like programs that could be turned off for start up purposes.

Three that I'd leave alone would be SCAN REGISTRY, TASK MONITOR, and CRITICAL UPDATE.

It may also be possible that it is not necessarily the volume of things open as it is a particular program causing a conflict.

If you went in and unchecked them one at a time, keeping notes as you went, you could always go back in and re-check one if it caused any difficulties.

If any one else reading this thread has better expertise in this area, please feel free to jump in. No offense taken, for sure.

George

[mlepine]

Originally posted by scarlet56
Looked at what you said and ticked was
ScanRegistry/ccApp/CCRegVfy/.../CSINJECT.EXE/E-Color/3Deep/E-Color Indicator/--plus there is a lot more things that are unticked.
I am not going to pretend that I know what these things are as in most cases I haven't a clue.
Can you let me know which to untick without causing myself a lot of problems. As you can probably guess I am a complete novice with my PC .
The reason I would like VSC is that I run a voluntary karaoke around old persons homes(a lot of the residents are actually younger than me) and a lot of the songs they want are not on karaoke disc so I have been using music from records and tapes etc but of course they still have the vocals on them as Vogone struggles to remove the vocals on really old music so reading the messages on here I decided to try midi files and VSC only to get the problems as explained.
cheers Les

I wrote this in another thread:

Here's what I got from the MaximumPC magazine February 2004, Page 28:

Every frickin' application we install lately seems to dump some sort of craptacular applet into our System tray... To kill the apps, you need to root them out at their source... To start it, go to Start, Run, and then type msconfig.exe. When the app opens, go to the Startup tab. The vast majority of your evil Systray apps can be disabled from here.

The difficulty lies in figuring out which apps you need, and which you don't... We recommend leaving alone any apps that uses rundll32 to run; if you mess with those you can disrupt vital Windows processes.

To disable the startup apps, all you need to do is uncheck the box next to each app's name and reboot your PC.
It's that simple.

All I did was to recommend not to disable Sound Canvas and the antivirus.

After doing this you have a clean startup!

ONE LAST THING, ALL YOUR WINDOWS UPDATE ARE DONE? INCLUDING DIRECTX 9.0?

Regards

[jaddams]

Scarlet56,

It appears you are running two Firewalls (Zone Alarm & Symantec) These two programs don’t like each other and their combination on the same machine could create disaster with some applications.

If you are only running one firewall, then you still have portions of the other installed. This should be corrected as soon as possible.

You also have Quarterdeck’s Clean Sweep installed. Clean Sweep is now part of Norton’s System works which is far more stable than Quarterdeck’s old version. If you are using System works, I subject you uninstall it completely and run it from de CD when needed (about once a month)

Below is a short description of what the files on your startup group do. Check this against your computer configuration. You should get an idea what or not to uncheck.

As George suggested, it would be wise to uncheck one item at a time keeping close track so you can revert if something goes wrong.

Yes, in my opinion, Edirol’s Sound Canvass merits all this extra work. It’s a great program!

Here we go.

Scan Registry (SCANREGW.EXE )
Microsoft’s Registry Checker, loads on boot-up, verifies that the Registry is in order, and makes a backup

ccApp
Is an important part of the protection that Norton AntiVirus (NAV) or Norton Internet Security (NIS) provides and should not be disabled at startup.

ccregvfy or ccregvfy.exe
Common Client Registry Integrity Verifier.
Service that checks the integrity of the Windows registry entries for Norton Antivirus 2003/4 and Norton Internet Security 2003/4 in case they may have been modified by a hacker or an unknown virus

TBLFUNC (tblmouse.exe)
Graphics Tablet Driver.
If you don’t have a graphics tablet, uncheck this entry from your startup group

soundman or soundman.exe
Advance Sound Effect Manager
Provides support to control the Sony/Philips Digital Interface input and output. The application also allows a user to change the function of the input and output ports of a soundcard from Line-In, Line-Out, and MIC to Front, Rear, and Centre speakers

TaskMonitor (taskmon.exe)
.Taskmon.exe from Microsoft monitors the application usage. This information is later used by the Disk Defragmenter to optimize fast access to frequently used programs.

criticalUpdate (wucrtupd.exe)
Microsoft Windows Critical Update. This program will notify you when security related updates have been released. An excellent way to keep your system secure.

LoadPowerProfile (powrprof.dll)
Related to the power management of the computer.

QDFastAndSafe
Fast & Safe clean-up from Symantec. Removes Temporary Internet Files and other files that are safe to delete.

Zone Labs Client (zlclient.exe)
Zone Alarm Firewall

ccevtmgr or ccevtmgr.exe
Symantec Event Manager Service
Program associated with Norton Antivirus 2003/4. The program is responsible for keeping track of all events that occur within the previously-mentioned products and then writing the details of those events to the Activity Log.

ScriptBlocking (SBServ.exe)
Part of Norton Anti-virus.

GhostStartService (GhostStartService.exe) (Not required at Start-up)
Required to run the Windows based wizard in Norton Ghost - added from the 2003 version. Will start automatically when you run the wizard.

TrueVector (VSMON.EXE)
Related to the Zone Alarm firewall from Zone Labs.

CSINJECT (CSINLECT.EXE)
Part of Quarterdeck/Norton Clean Sweep. "Csinject must be loaded in order for Smart Sweep to automatically monitor installations and properly track registry changes."

E-Color
Delivers enhanced image quality for all user levels. Excellent for games

3Deep
is an exciting new tool that allows gamers to experience 3D & 2D games as the creator intended. By calibrating your monitor.

E-Color Indicator
See E-Color above

If you need any further assistance, we are here to help

Good luck,

Jon

[George]

Les,

I might add I neglected to say that after you uncheck a program, re-boot the computer to apply the change.

George

[scarlet56]

Thanks to all for your help but it's not going to work. I followed all the instructions that you gave me, rebooted and clicked on VSC, after about 20 seconds it opened up and let me have a play. I then closed it down while I went to Winamp to see how good my editing was, pretty good if I say so myself (who's a clever boy then) but then I went back VSC to have another go and ,you've guessed it, it just completely froze my PC and wouldn't even let me use Ctrl+Alt+Delete, I had to press the little reset button on the PC itself to restart, so now I dare not try VSC
Cheers Les

[jaddams]

Les.

You may consider upgrading to XP. it's so more stable than 98 you'll think you're in a different world.

Keep on trying.

Regards,

Jon

[scarlet56]

I have e-mailed the technical team from Edirol and asked them to join us on this forum to see if they can come up with a solution to this problem, so we will just have to wait and see, but I don't think that they will bother.
Les
ps anyone know why VSC costs $49 in the states and over $90 in England

[scarlet56]

Hi Everybody
I have struggled and battled to find a solution to my problem but with no success and have come to the conclusion that I will have to find another programme instead of VSC, anyone know any good ones please.
cheers Les

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello All,
I too have used Sound Canvas since I picked up the original thread, some time ago and also read George's detailed prose on the subject, it is great!!!
One thing I have found is that your computer is different from everyone elses, even down to batches made by the same manufacturer.
Bios's being set up improperly
Hardware and software clashes.
Some things just don't work on some computers.
Some clash with other programmes.
Some programmes have glitches in them.
You might just have a rogue copy of Sound Canvas.
I have also made the most stupid mistakes setting up some programmes which caused things not to run properly or at all.
Despite the number of people who say they run multiple programes etc. without any problems, I would limit these.
I have invested in a hard drive which only contains MTU products and programmes I can run in conjunction with them. (midi. files, SC, mp3, wav and midi converters).
If you only have one Hard Drive its amazing how much junk, adware, spyware, demo's are loaded on it.
Installing a new Hard Disc is probably the most painless way to go as you don't need a huge one and they have become very cheap.
I would urge you to stick with Sound Canvas, there are alteratives but just check the amount you will have to spend on them
Regards from across the pond.
Garry