No sound from speakers on laptop with windows
I am having an issue with the audio coming out of the speakers of my laptop. I already checked that the volume is on and the settings in the audio status of Max are correct. I also check the sound settings of my laptop and I believe everything is in order: max app have selected as output the speakers of the laptop, sound drivers are updated, format of output is the same as the audio status in Max (16 bit, 48000 Hz). I reset Max and my laptop several times and it doesn´t work. The objects like makenote actually make sounds I can hear in the speakers, but when is cycle~ I can´t hear anything, even when I see the sound is happening. I read the turorials in cycling website and can´t find anything I haven´t done there. What am I missing? I am using a surface laptop with Windows 11.
I just change by chance the audio driver from ad_mme to ad_directsound, even when I was pretty sure that I was using the mme before without issues, but now the sound is working. Now I need to look up what´s the difference between both audio drivers :S
Back in the days - very long ago - directsound was the original Windows API only supporting stereo. mme was a later implementation supporting multi channel audio.
I haven’t worked on Windows for over 10 years though. It’s possible that this isn’t true anymore.