If you use a sound card, like a pro one with multiple ins and outs, you will need a driver for that. Lots of guys with 'legacy' cards they bought some years ago for that purpose and they have no end of problems with 'drivers' needing updates but not done by the company who want to sell them a new board.

I got a new synth yesterday. Came with drivers. Said if I plug it into port 1 I need drivers. Then it says straight out plug it into port 2 (both usb) I need to re-do the drivers.

I plugged the keyboard in, no drivers, it waited, said ready, and in band in a box I could use the usb thing with my keyboard, and it showed up as a midi device in Band in a Box. So I didn't even need drivers.

You need drivers for you video card, they come with the system.

You need printer drivers.

Sound Card drivers.

Wireless drivers just in case.

And so on.

Tip: to keep work separate make 2 logins. Don't use passwords. Click on yours and Bob's yer uncle.


Matt: No I didn't mean you, certainly getting something ready for a CD is different from getting something ready and doing it live on a gig. That's when at some bar it sounds a bit off it sounds real. But sometimes I wonder what people are doing spending hours tweaking tracks. I just prefer to make music.

Going to do that now.

John Conley
Musica est vita