I can't turn on the audio driver!!

Rafael Cervantes's icon

Hey guys, this is my first post and i'm pretty familiar with max at this point, but for some reason i cannot get any sound from any patchers. The Audio status button in the left bottom corner won't even turn on. Every other program i'm using outputs sound so i know it's not my laptop and I checked to make sure the right driver is selected in the options menu, rewire won't even work. Please help! I'm so confuzzled!

Anton Orazem's icon

Hi Im having the EXACT SAME problem. I even reinstalled max and still nothing...

Rafael Cervantes's icon

I also reinstalled Max :( nothing has worked

Caroline Clarke's icon

I'm having the same problem, is it a bug?

Rob Ramirez's icon

first thing to try, after restarting Max and restarting the machine, is to follow these instructions here: https://cycling74.com/support/faq-maxcrash

Rafael Cervantes's icon

Thank you! this seems to have fixed the core audio driver problem but rewire still won't work in ableton. I get the error message: "is rewire mixer running?" in the console

Aidan McKell's icon

I've just had this exact problem and managed to fix it by increasing the signal vector size in the Audio Status window. Hopefully this will help anyone else with the same issue who comes across this post in the future.

Simons's icon

BRILLIANT!! Thank you so much . Just increasing the Signal Vector size made the sound come back. Although you didn't say by how much to increase, I went up to 64 and back down to 2, and everything is somewhat back to normal.
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