>there should be an item in the Media menu that says "ASIO (via
portaudio)&quot; that should be checked &gt;in order to use the ASIO drivers.<br>Yep, there should be. I use ASIO via portaudio in Windows XP with PD. Maybe your ASIO is not well configured.<br><br>&gt;I seem to detect a bit of Linux snobbery in that comment. I&#39;m a big fan
of open-source software, and if &gt;you can suggest an open-source DAW for
Windows that has all of the features of Cubase (by which I &gt;do mean
&quot;all,&quot; not &quot;some&quot;), I&#39;ll be overjoyed to switch to it as my primary
platform! But if I have to do &gt;without important features ... not gonna
switch.<br>It wasn&#39;t meant to be snobbery, just showing possibility and a comparison with my XP and my Ubuntu on the same machine - but definitely I don&#39;t want to generate a &quot;windows vs. linux&quot; thread :D <br>

As for open DAWs, Ardour is very good. I&#39;ve used Cubase 5 because in one of my musical projects one of the members uses it to record, and it is very very good - a lot of interesting improvements from the previous versions (I recall using Cubase 3 some years ago). I don&#39;t have the time to compare all the features of Cubase v.s Ardour but I know some that Ardour is leading is OSC support - which is a really nice feat (irecall reading this [1])<br>

<br>Best regards and keep posting the results, maybe we can figure out what the issue is,<br>Pedro Lopes<br><br>[1] <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/04/07/want-a-daw-that-supports-osc-try-ardour-free/">http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/04/07/want-a-daw-that-supports-osc-try-ardour-free/</a><br>

<br>-- <br>Pedro Lopes<br>contacto: <a href="mailto:jazz@radiozero.pt">jazz@radiozero.pt</a><br>website: <a href="http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes">http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes</a> <br>