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thanks, Robh. So I guess I would select the USB card in Windows device manager as the recording input device and then PT would see it. Is that right?



Once the drivers are properly installed, PT should see and show the USB sound device Inputs and Outputs available in Audio Prefs section. The only caveat here is that a USB device should be plugged in, turned on and recognized by the OS *before* starting PT so that the program can "find" it.

You don't necessarily have to set the System to also use the USB sound by default, although you can do so, I prefer not to do so in order not to have all those dumb Windoze sounds being routed through my studio monitoring system for reasons of my ears not being assaulted nor my tweeters chancing a blowout when Windoze decides its time to interrupt the audio stream with one of those System sounds. Mateer of fact, the first thing I do to any PC that I'm going to be using for serious audio/music work is go into the Control Panel and disable ALL windows sound by setting it to No Sounds. This guarantees that nothing stupid calls an interrupt to my audio stream when recording or mixing as well - and prevents the dumb problem that happens becuase Windows Sounds are done at 48KHz and typically we will be recording and playing back at another bitrate - some coundcards can handle the Sample Rate Conversion needed on the fly, but that still will tie up CPU cycles needlessly.

Check out the USB sound device offerings from M-Audio. Good driver support is paramount to success with any type of audio device, USB or not, and M-Audio has a pretty good track record along those lines.

--Mac

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