Cannot connect with sound card

[jorogo]

I have an E-MU 1616 sound card. It sends/receives o.k. with Steinberg Cubase LE, but I would rather use the much cleaner and understandable Audacity. I cannot (or cannot figure how to) send/receive with Audacity 1.2.6 or 1.3.7. They appear stable, but I cannot get a digital signal back and forth between the E-MU card and Audacity.

Both are set to 96k/24bit, the E-MU has an ASIO1,2 send/receive patch installed in its output section, and this works fine with the Steinberg setup. The E-MU is listed on the input and output selection options of Audacity, and it is selected. Input monitoring is on. Opening a file and playing it on Audacity shows on its output meters, but does not appear at the E-MU receive. A good signal sent from the E-MU via the AISO1,2 send does not show on the input to Audacity.

I don't know what else to do to get these two to talk.

[steve]

Audacity does not support ASIO (due to licensing restrictions).
You either need to install "Windows drivers" (WDM or MME) or do the recording in a program that supports ASIO.

It is unfortunately very common for sound cards that are designed to use ASIO to have sub-standard Windows drivers, so recording in another program may be a better option.
You can still use Audacity for editing and/or mixing. Save/Export from the other program as WAV files, then Import the WAV files into Audacity. Export your finished masterpiece as a WAV file.