Was talking to a gur name Fred as responded to my first question. Hi Fred I tried what you asked me to try but I'm still not up and running. I checked my fast track pro and made sure I was using it correctly. And actually I'm not sure exactly what a sound card is I looked in program settings on magix and looked in sounds and audio devices properties in windows but nothing that actually says sound card. I downloaded some asio drivers (as a pop up message keeps telling me to use asio drivers for recording) and now I can hear playback in record mode but still can't record! The recording object starts but stops about 3 inches while the song keeps playing. I dont know what the problem is. I was recording fine and now everything is just crapped out! Spent hours trying to figure it out but to no avail. Fred can you give me some more pointers. And anybody else who haves knowledge of the "secrets of succesful recording on magix mm mx premium. Is anybody else having these same types of recording problems?