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DNS "goes deaf" when the computer is placed on standby
Submitted by jsachs177 on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 20:41.
I recently switched my DNS 9 input from a headset to a Sennheiser MD431 microphone. Since the microphone's input level is too low for a sound card, I am connecting the microphone to the computer through an M-Audio Transit USB converter. (This is like a USB pod that is designed for digitizing input from turntables and other analog sound equipment. Its device driver has a gain control that lets me boost the microphone's input to the proper level.)
This arrangement is working fine, except for one bit of weirdness: whenever I put the computer on standby and then power it up again, DNS loses its ability to "hear" anything through the Transit device. The device and its driver continue to work with other applications, and if I quit and restart DNS, it works fine. Just re-selecting the device does NOT work, though.
Any ideas what is going on here, and how I can fix it?
I spoke to the people at
I spoke to the people at M-Audio and learned what the problem is. The Transit does not respond to power-up quickly enough to suit Dragon. (They've encountered some other applications that produce the same problem.) When Dragon finds that the input device it has been using is "not there," it switches to the computer's on-board sound card.
I can sometimes recover without restarting Dragon by using the Accuracy Center to reset the input device. Sometimes not.
M-Audio's recommended solution is to never turn the computer off. My preferred solution is to procure another input device when I can afford to.