Hey all.
Thank you guys for walking me through an install of the Cubase instaDAW. It's up and running, for the most part.
I have a G4 450 DP, Gigabit. It has a 16mb radeon card, an 80gb drive, and a 240gb (ish) drive. The 80gb drive is partitioned into three sectors, the Cubase install on one sector, a working sector, and a third sector with the macos9lives o/s from this website installed. I have an Audiophile 2496 card installed. I added SoundDiver, successfully, along with the Unitor software, and it communicates with my Unitor mkII with no problem via USB.
So, the Cubase install seems to work OK, sort of. All of the programs fire up. Sort of. What it *doesn't* do is recognize the Audiophile card. I've tried placing the card in different slots, and it doesn't want to acknowledge that it's hooked up insomuch that it is not selectable from the Cubase audio preferences menu. In Cubase, it allows only the Apple Sound drivers as an option.
I've tried locating all of the drivers that were originally installed for the Audiophile and reinstalling (which failed, utterly) and reloading the volume image for Cubase, which lead to the same problem that is currently presenting: Cubase doesn't recognize the Audiophile 2496.
Do I have to instruct the G4 to look for the hardware in some nebulas menu?
So, what is this noobie missing? It's actually quite embarrassing to ask - I've been working with computers for 30+ years, and have been relatively successful in analysis/determination of the problem and implementing solutions...
Is it possible that I got a crapped out Audiophile from fleaBay?
J