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Have you tried just recording a track without opening the VU window??
This may help us solve the problem.
If you can indeed record, just can't open the VU it may be something completely different (like driver setup) than if you still can't record at all.

I'm sure I can set my system up to error on the VU meter, but still be able to record. At least I could with previous system.

When you open the VU it tries to use the default devices. Just how RB works.
If you haven't selected the USB input as the *only* available device, and have a valid output device selected, and then clicked the 'move selected device to top' button you are not set up to use them as the default devices. It may be that you should instead use the driver's software mixer to monitor levels.
For systems with multiple input selections, it is possible to make it so RB can not find the desired device, in which case I would expect an error when envoked.

We don't know yet if it is caused by input side or output side due to lack of details and responses.




I think I followed your advice by attempting to record a track without opening the VU window. That is, first, I selected the ASIO Driver and then selected the Steinberg driver for both VU input and output. My next step was NOT to select the VU Meter but go directly to recording. I first tried selecting the "record audio" button. It did not seem to lock up at this point. Rather, I could hear the click track and the visual countdown. My mic was turned on and I could hear sound through my speakers. However, I could not tell if anything was being recorded. And when I click stop, I got no indication that there had been a recording that was made. I then tried clicking on the "record" button and got the same result. At this point, I tried invoking the VU meter and it came up. It did not lock up the program! The VU meter did not respond to a mic test. And I was able to close the VU meter and open it again without it locking up. However, the audio Setting button was not activated and I could not bring up that window. In other words that button seemed to be locked up. Likewise, the "file" "edit" "audio", etc., buttons were inactive and I was not able to close the program in the normal manner, i.e., the program was locked up in that sense. However, it was not locked up in the sense that I can still click the record and record audio button and get the visual countdown and the audible countdown Click sound.

I have no idea what this all means. But that's the best account I can give at this point what happened when I attempted to record without initially selecting the VU meter. I presume the only way I will be able to get out of the program is to control alt delete and log off of the program.

I'll try downloading the ASIO DRIVER LATER .

I have to leave now... Thank you so much for following me on this. Tom