true if you want to record with audacitystevethefiddle wrote:For use with Audacity there must be Windows drivers (WDM or MME).whomper wrote:you need to check with the interface vendor to see if they support win7 yet and provide the drivers for their box
The M-Audio Fast Track Pro & PreSonus FireBox use ASIO drivers by default, but Audacity does not support ASIO (to be totally accurate, the distributed version of Audacity does not support ASIO).
M-Audio Fast Track Pro & PreSonus FireBox are also supplied with drivers for Windows (but not sure about Windows 7), but there are a lot of reports from users on this forum that have struggled to get them working properly.
An important consideration in choosing a sound card is "what do you want to use it for"?
For example, if you want to record from a microphone, then you either need a USB microphone, or a sound card that has a microphone pre-amp built in, or a microphone and a microphone pre-amp and a line level sound card, or a microphone and a mixing desk and a line level sound card. - lots of options, so it really does depend on what you want to do.
(Your duplicate posts will be deleted because it gets really confusing with replies scattered all over the forum - posts get picked up better if they are in just one appropriate part of the forum)
but
every interface comes with basic software to at least record
then you can save the wav file and use audacity to edit and mix
and finish your project
that is how i did my first one
recorded with a separate device
drag and drop the wav file to the pc
moved it into audacity
and finished tweaking everything separating tracks etc
then burned with roxio
next step - record directly on my pc
but see new thread for that can of worms