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Seems I should be able to use ASIO4ALL, and I can get it to install, but I get no sound with it. After installed, when I click on the "ASIO Drivers Control Panel" in the Drivers window, I get a pop-up RB-generated message saying: "Audio and/or DXi Output will be silent - the ASIO4ALL driver is not connected; likely due to your using a soft-synth (like GS-Wavetable) for MIDI".

Terry, when you click on that button, it should bring up a window that looks like the one shown on this page. It's a driver function, not generated by RB - also accessible from Start=>Programs=ASIO4ALL menu. If you're truly getting an RB generated error msg, try getting to that ASIO4ALL control panel with RB shut down. You should see your sound card in the left pane. It should be highlighted in green, indicating a running status. If not, select it to confer running status. Then hit the advanced button and you'll find some parameters to play with, including latency and buffer size adjustments. Once your card shows with the green highlight, try accessing the panel again from within RB and see if it works now. If you still get an error msg, all I can think is to reset RB to factory, then repeat the ASIO4ALL control panel dance *before* enabling the softsynth and without touching the other ASIO drivers (ie. don't give them a chance to corrupt a configuration file.) An even more drastic thing (short of new hardware ) might be to uninstall the other ASIO drivers, especially if you don't use them for anything else. My two coexist fine in XP, but maybe multiple installations confuse some apps in some environments.

BTW, a trivial thing, but when you see vu meters going but no sound, check to make sure the Windows midi synth volume control hasn't been zeroed. One or two apps have been reported to cause that.

HTH, -Ron