Ah, Chris, you won’t believe the dance I performed here: the installer refused
to work. I put the .zip file in all the JAWS versions, one after the other.
Opened them, restarted the JAWS version. No cigar. Tried with one version after
the other, lifting out the files from their folder. Resoundingly unsuccessful.
Then, I found an older version of jsonar, 8. Something. I installed that in
JAWS 17 for grins. Nah, not quite working, but I didn’t get stuck in the
language selection thing. So, then, I followed up by installing 8.53, and I
said to ignore the fact I have a Jsonar version already and let this
installation happen. It works.
This is clearly an example of trying and trying until you’re so bleary-eyed you
have no idea of what you’re doing and just hopefully grope for rescue…
Thanks for your contribution. I may now continue and see if I can make it work
in JAWS 19 and 20 as well… Oh, but can I? Scary!
Gudrun
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Chris Ankin
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Subject: [freelists-midimag] Re: JSonar problem
Hi Gudrun,
I’m so sorry, I can’t tell you the answer for this, it’s been so long now, when
I was using Sonar the installer worked so I never really had to get my hands
dirty so to speak!
I know exactly what you mean about hanging on to Sonar, I was exactly the same,
until a hard drive failure forced me to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
I initially tried Samplitude but I did not find it very intuitive, and also it
meant having to use JAWS exclusively, not that the cost was prohibitive for me,
but after buying a full version of Samplitude and upgrading my JAWS to a
version that worked on Windows 10 it was an expensive admission price.
I instead tried Reaper despite folk saying it was difficult to learn, I found I
was up and running within a morning, the concept was different to Sonar
admittedly and there was a bit of a learning curve involved in the item based
concept, but the community support and resources are very strong.
I also like that it is very resource light and probably works best with NVDA
which is also low on cpu.
Anyway, I’m not here to sell Reaper 😊, but I hope someone else might be able to
provide some guidance on the manual installation process.
Best,
Chris
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Subject: [freelists-midimag] Re: JSonar problem
Hi Chris, and thanks so much for your reply. I know, Sonar is fading away, and
I know I must eventually go elsewhere. I have both Reaper and Samplitude, and
I’m sadly untutored in both (for lack of time). I’ve always been thinking “I’ll
get serious about this some time,” but there has always been projects to
finish, my radio shows, song accompaniments to create, and when projects call,
you keep going, even if the tools are rusty.
Question: should I simply remove the jsonar files out of my settings\enu, or is
there another uninstall of jsonar I should do to attempt a reinstallation?
Gudrun
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Subject: [freelists-midimag] Re: JSonar problem
Hi,
I’m not sure if this is still relevant, but I will paste below a reply to a
similar question from a thread posted some time back which I kept in a text
file.
Sadly at the end of the day Sonar is just no longer supported, and stability is
not what it was, I moved over to Reaper myself about 18 months ago and have not
really looked back, anyway here is the text.
Quote:
Hi,
The last installer can be got from:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cn5bjkoxfidwxw6/jsonar8.53.exe?dl=0
If you can’t run this (some later Jaws versions won’t work with it), you can
download the files to manually install it from:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rlu1iiu323zwhp6/jsonar853.zip?dl=0
Hope this helps.
Tim
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Subject: [freelists-midimag] JSonar problem
Hi gang: I’ve been using Sonar 8.5 producer. I have JAWS 17, 19, and 20 on my
DAW. Of late, things have been not working so great. JSonar was working fairly
well on JAWS 17 and 19, but not on 20.
I tried reinstalling jSonar 8.53.
I get stuck in the language dialog:
"Please select JAWS language for which to install JSonar scripts."
JAWS language dropdown is empty with no selections available. Tabbing once
brings me to another dialog with a dropdown, and here, I can select English. If
I hit [okay], I get an error message: Please select JAWS language for which to
install JSonar scripts." And there you have it. I get stuck in that loop.
Any help appreciated.
Gudrun
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