Per my previous comment above: "Truthfully, I probably need to sit down and read through the help files and start to address my own lack of familiarity with RB. The one thing I can say is that if this can't be fixed with a simple tweak of an ASIO buffer or some other of the numerous settings that lurk in RB, I'd say there is a RB (Real Bug) somewhere."

Well, I am happy to say it wasn't a "R"eal "B"ug, it was a "R"ealband "B"eginner... me! It was fixed with a tweak. Tried turning off the enable input monitoring flag and back to pristine ASIO audio in RB2010. Then went and checked the help files and found the tip below and the warning, Doh!

"Enable Input Monitoring (ASIO Only) – When this checkbox is enabled (and ASIO is selected in the Driver Type combo) then RealBand will take the ASIO input signal from input port number 1 and send it to output 1 so that you will hear the input through the speakers. You can apply real time effects to the monitored input by selected "Input" in the top combo box of the DirectX/VST Real Time Effects dialog. You can then select up to 4 DirectX or VST effects.
WARNING! - Do not enable this feature if the input port number 1 is set to record the output (e.g. "What you hear" or "Mix" )because enabling input monitoring in this case will cause massive feedback that could hurt your ears!"

Back to the other big issue that got me spooked when I installed 2010 on Win7 64 bit, the premature installation crash which I assumed was due to the audio plug-ins. I thought this crash might have had to do something with causing the distortion I was hearing, but that was not the case. Unfortunately, I don't know why the install really crashed or if it happened late enough that it really had no impact. I can't detect anything that isn't working so far.

As to the presets issue, I've looked at all mine and there are presets available for all of the PG audio plugins, except for, Autowah, Distortion, RingMod, RTA, Tremolo, Vinyl Tool and Vocal Remover. Wonder if anyone can comment whether there were even presets for those. Since my install seemed to fail early, maybe that's why some of the plug-in presets are missing and the Vocal Remover, crashes RB2010 straight to the desktop immediately. I just won't use that one, but I'd be interested if anyone else on Win7 64bit can indicate whether their plugins behave the the same. I wonder if it's safe for me to try the plug-in patch Andrew posted too, or if I need to, based on my observations above. Be interested in your recommendation Andrew, if you read this.

I have noticed problems with some of my RealTracks not being installed and when I'm in the styles list, every style is attributed to disk #94 for some reason!?! I'll start a different thread to see if anyone can help with getting my Stylelist working properly. Don't think this has much to do with Win7 64, so I'm starting to feel pretty good about 2010 with this operating system, based on what I'm seeing.

DAW SOFTWARE: Cakewalk Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab
DAW PC: Win11, Intel i9-12900 CPU, MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk, 64GB RAM, ZOOM Livetrack L-12, Yorkville YSM1P-II Monitors