Thanks Guy's, for some reason my reply yesterday didn't seem to have gone through.... strange. Anyway, what I tried to say before was that I had tried all the things Matt had suggested with no effect. However, what I did do was de-select, then re-select all the sound devices under the Windows 7 options (yes I am using it).

I personally find the sound setup in W7 over complicated. I know they are trying to cater for all eventualities but please.........!

Bottom line...... I now have all the sound back. I can hear the chords builder and the drum set chooser. All that's left now is to sort out that F%*7^^"£ .....ASIO thing again. This has been the bain of my life. I know it maybe better on MME but, I've got it installed and I'm gonna use it. Currently I need to run it at 40 - 50ms to stop the pops and clicks. W7 it appears is very CPU hungry and I'm still using a good old single CPU, not the quad-core they recomend.

Anyway, thanks again Guy's is good to now your there to help.

Peter