Yesterday I was having trouble testing RealBand and PowerTracks under Windows 7 using the inbuilt sound devices, so today, I plugged in a USB sound capture device and fired up Audacity as a first test. It worked properly, so I closed it and fired up realband. Realband locked up solid before it completed starting up fully. Not even task manager could kill it's process. I had to restart Windows. PowerTracks does the same.


Yesterday it was working, although not recording from the wave device. Nothing has changed except the addition of the USB capture device. So I rebooted Windows, and tried PTW again. Again it locked up trying to start, so I removed the USB capture device, and suddenly ptw finished starting up. So I plugged the PNP USB capture device back in, and looked at PTW's config. The new device had appeared on the recording device list, so I selected it. However, when I try to record I get the same 'Can't open wave device' I was getting yesterday.


I am starting to wonder if Realband 2008.5 and PTW 12 are fully compatible with Windows 7 . I guess I need to download the latest patches/builds of each to be sure.


Is anyone else using Windows 7 with these products?