I'm running RealBand 2014 on a Windows 8 machine, through an M-Audio Fast Track USB (the old model). I would like to monitor my recording so that I can hear the (otherwise near-silent) electric guitar. The audio preferences indicate I must use ASIO in order to monitor. I have three ASIO drivers: ASIO Multimedia (which has dreadful latency), MAudio USB ASIO (which has a sample rate (48) incompatible with the device (41.1), go figure), and ASIO4ALL (which refuses to connect, and provides silent output). ASIO4ALL shows output ports not connected.

The yellow-highlighted message suggest that my problem is that another audio program is running or a MIDI driver is acting as the audio output. No audio program is running THAT I KNOW OF. Three audio programs are pinned to my taskbar, but not running. I ran RB without a browser on the off-chance that YouTube or some player embedded somewhere could be the problem. As for MIDI outputs, I show two: MS MIDI Mapper (selected) and MS GS Wavetable Synth (warned about in the message). I deselected both to see what would happen, and it made no difference. I restored the MIDI mapper.

Does anyone have a solution or suggestion for this?

Thanks,
Joe