d8b Forum

Hello All,

Thank you for taking the time to look.

I just purchased an MFX card that I am trying to confirm either works or does not. I have one other MFX card in the D8B that when I load the MFX 3.0 on it, it works fine, but when I load it in the new MFX card, it loads fine, but the effects do not work. I have tried swapping the cards around in the D8B and putting it in the place where the old MFX card was working, but to no avail, it still does not work.

Anyone have any thoughts of what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you,

Ken

Hi,
Sounds to me like you bought a defective card. JMHO.

Have a blessed day in Christ.
Mike W.

Just as a matter of mentioning, if you have 2 mfx cards they should be in the first two slots, not separated. Don't know if that helps.

Peter

I am the one that sold the card to him, Id like to sort it out for both of us. My d8b had UFX and MFX and the previous owner showed me the effects in action before I bought the unit. I barely used the effects as I was having trouble learning the d8b / hdr having come from a DAW. I ended up going with the ProBox and DAW again, and selling all my extra parts and cards

sounds like he is running one or the other (his old card or the new card) as well as a UFX, are the effects "on the card" or do they need some sort of loading? Would he be better trying to run both MFX at the same time? Im wondering if the second card adds to the first (the first being the master for his particular machine)???? ....Im unfamiliar myself.

thanks for any input you guys can give us

I have tried them individually with just the one card, and it works with the old one but not the new. I dont see any jumpers on the card, so it cant be that.

Maybe dirty contacts? I can see if I can find a cleaner.

So shredless had a good question. Do you have to authorize the new card for the console? I tried looking to see if I could re register Vocal Studio and Mackie Effects 3.0 and they both say they are already authorized, but those are only plugins. Is there a way to do the card?

BTW, I also tried the cards in slot 1 and 2 respectively and it still does not appear to be running effects.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks,

Ken

I tried looking to see if I could re register Vocal Studio and Mackie Effects 3.0 and they both say they are already authorized

Just a FYI: Vocal Studio is built into all Mackie 3.0 EfX cards. If the console boots and sees two of them mounted, it automatically authorizes Vocal Studio. There is no serial number to be entered.

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FrankH wrote:

I tried looking to see if I could re register Vocal Studio and Mackie Effects 3.0 and they both say they are already authorized

Just a FYI: Vocal Studio is built into all Mackie 3.0 EfX cards. If the console boots and sees two of them mounted, it automatically authorizes Vocal Studio. There is no serial number to be entered.

So would this mean that having a mfx and a ufx card installed...you would have a authorized Vocal Studio?
or do you need 2 mfx and ufx makes no difference?

I was trying to get the OP to try running Vocal Studio to see if they are working while 2 MFX cards are installed

unfortunately neither of us know exactly what we are doing and I as the seller, would like to get it resolved for him

thanks again for all your help

shredless wrote:

FrankH wrote:

I tried looking to see if I could re register Vocal Studio and Mackie Effects 3.0 and they both say they are already authorized

Just a FYI: Vocal Studio is built into all Mackie 3.0 EfX cards. If the console boots and sees two of them mounted, it automatically authorizes Vocal Studio. There is no serial number to be entered.

So would this mean that having a mfx and a ufx card installed...you would have a authorized Vocal Studio?
or do you need 2 mfx and ufx makes no difference?

You need two MFX cards for vocal studio to work. You would think that it would work with one MFX and one UFX but it doesn't, needs to be two MFX cards.

Ok, that helps. thank you