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?this is why I can't record with this program, what am I doing wrong? I use windows, I see other people with macs with a drop-down menu for buffer size and I have no drop down menu?

although I click it and the buffer size says 256 sample, like 46 milliseconds of delay? how can I track piece by piece?

someone, please help!

thank you

got asio4all, man im so frustrated, wish i had help

it works but my usb microphone wont connect to it and my internal inst working : (

Ok, first of all you need to know how audio applications work... and how they work/differ from how they work on Mac.

If you are using your inbuilt audio interface (you do not have a proper dedicated USB interface) you will have some major limitations. For a start, as you discovered without a replacement driver (ASIO4ALL) you get bad latency and poor performance. That is because the inbuilt interface and drivers are rubbish for real time audio stuff and ASIO4ALL is a stop-gap solution for that.

ASIO is a "direct driver" layer which connects (basically) your program direct to the PC output. It is 1:1 so does not go through the windows mixer and only one application can use the ASIO driver at a time.

You can only select a single device for input/output in Live on Windows so if you have your audio interface selected for output, your Mic (on USB) is a second interface and cannot be selected. Mac does allow a separate audio device for Input and Output.