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[Jimbo]

I am using Vegas 4 with a Creative Sound Blaster Platinum 5.1 sound card.
I had to reinstall my User in Win XP Pro. This messed up some hardware
settings, like the sound card. Had lost sound altogether, and had to
re-assign the correct driver for Windows to use. I have sound playing again
through Windows Media Player and in Vegas now, no problem.
I have been using Vegas 4 to do some music recording, for a Video project
later on. Before losing & re-creating my user in Win XP, I had it working
perfectly. I am just "capturing" an MP3 being played by Media Player on the
first audio track. I have to switch my virtual mixer record input to
WAVE/MP3 to do this. This records fine. Then I create a second audio track.
Then switch the Creative virtual mixer record input to LINE2, (external)
which is connected to my live music source through an external hardware
mixer. I then turn off the volume on the new track all the way, and turn up
the volume on the first previously recorded track, turn up the master volume
some; then ARM the new/second audio track, and then hit the record button on
bottom left of the time line. Then Vegas would play the first track (which I
am listening to) and at the same time record my live music to the second new
track. (the sound card is full duplex). I would get one track with nothing
but the canned music, and a second track with nothing but my live music.
But Now I get a message when I start up Vegas---- "Warning: no Creative
products installed that are ASIO compatible." And when I record my live
music now, the second track is also recording (again) the music being played
on the first track, so the second track is now a mixture of the canned MP3
music and my live music. On the second track, the volume of the canned
music is weak, and echo-ey, and oddly high-passed, almost going into an
oscillation. I have lost the isolation between sound being outputted and
what is being inputted and captured by Vegas.
So I tried reinstalling ASIO. This didn't help. So I started up the
ASIO diagnostic utility (ASIO Multimedia Setup), and ran the "SIMULATE"
function---it completed without any error, so my sound card must be
ASIO-compatible, I guess (but I barely understand what ASIO is, let alone
if it has anything to do with the first track getting mixed in with the
second). I think it has something to do with sync and eliminating latency.
Anyone know what is screwed up?