Terry,

are you running the audio out thru a USB audio interface? Or thru the laptop's built-in speakers? I run BIAB from a laptop, and it seems to work best when I send output to the same device I use for input... which in my case is a Focusrite Scarlett (and from there to powered speakers.)

I'm not at my music computer at the moment so I can't remember step by step instructions to the audio setup ... but it is in the audio setup that you select audio drivers (which would include the drivers for your laptops built-in speakers or any other audio drivers that may be installed)

When I have dramatically different audio results between programs its usually because I'm using different audio drivers in the programs.