Modern Toshiba Satellite, dual Intel 2.1 GHz/8/250, Vista Home Premium 64, TASCAM US-224 USB I/O, Real Band/Cubase VST/whatever.

I have successfully recorded before from on my desktop DAW using both RB and Cubase as well as Nuendo. Now I need to do a project on my laptop. Feel like a fool.

Recording a storyteller. One channel of mono audio. I'm getting level into the TASCAM and into Windows. I can't seem to get usable level into or out of either RB or Cubase. (It took me two hours to get anything out of either and I'm not sure what I did. I've been reduced to using MME drivers, even though both Cubase and the TASCAM are ASIO based.)

In Cubase I can make up some of the gain with compression, but that'll make it real noisy. I seem to be missing the gain knob that I would have on a hardware mixer.

I don't care what program I use, but I have a deadline. Help.

R.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."