Bob, my in and out are both set to the M-Audio Fast Track Pro. And MME.

And you are right. I don't have a clue about this latest wave of acronyms. DXi? The last I remember about anything similar to DXi was the DX7 I owned in the late 80s. DAW? I know it means Digital Audio Workstation. Can I just call it "the computer I have dedicated to running my studio hardware and software" and have that mean the same thing? I know that VSTs are virtual studio technology. Can I just call them software synths, like the Prophet 5 and B3 software synths I have?

This is like when landscapers want to sound more important than they are and use words like "plant materials". Um, Guido, they are called "flowers". KISS.

So to answer your question more directly, whatever the default Microsoft GS Wavetable synth is that is populated in that field by default, that's what is there now. I did not change it. If it worked to create the sounds, why would I ever need to change it for any reason? Another way to say it, nothing changes from when I create the song to when I try to render it out to wav. And that is where the frustration level rises. Is that process not intuitive enough to read what it has to work with and just "work" with whatever when I click on the command?

When it gets to point that it is less hassle to coordinate 4 other people to just come to my house and play the stuff live to record it, then software is of no use to me. And the trump card? 3 people have told me something different I am doing wrong in 3 separate emailed replies. So what is the "right"answer?

Revisiting the initial issue, writing the songs is no problem once they fixed the video smear bug. That was the only issue I had with creation was the screen not scrolling properly. That is what led to people telling me that the video driver on my (then) 107 day old Dell computer (with Windows 7 64 bit and the HUGE driver pool it comes with) was already out of date and that just HAD to be the problem. I enter the chord progressions, cut, paste, edit, solos.... yada yada yada. Everything is fine. I play it back, add my live instruments as I record to the Tascam 8 track. Everything is fine. The issue here started when rendering to wav, and using the drop feature to move my songs to Sonar 7, which has indeed been kept up to date and has the latest revisions. I don't even know why I care to do that, but if the software does it, I should know how to do it, right? I have gotten by this long with BIAB only because that is all I use it for, making demos to send to the players. Now that I am trying to expand my knowledge and horizons I am running in to issues that help files do not address in clear language and need the human touch.

And I checked with Akron U and they have no degree program in BIAB, so....