You gotta have left and right to get stereo. As near as I can tell, I'm left, my wife is right.
Don't uninstall MC3. The soft synth(s) that come with it will be available to you in SLE.
See you in the LE forum.

hey, RobertB. yeah, i had hoped that would be the case for the plug-ins. in fact, it would seem kinda criminal if they didn't mesh, since they're from the same egg, so to speak.
by the way, our wives must be related, mine is right as well....(MIDI drum roll)
i think i'm mono, but she hasn't told me yet. i might be left for saying that.....(hellacious MIDI drum roll)


now that we're in the LE loop, here's a quick update, so you can monitor our progress (for laughs, most likely; but perhaps with a hint of "hmmmm, what a maroon". )... still haven't gone MIDI, but we can record voice and instuments now thru the 0404 in LE, add/remove plug-in effects and whatnot. recording a track or two hasn't presented any big issues, but the playback quality is kinda poppish most of the time. when i run Wave Profiler it tells me 11K, 22K, 1764K and 1920K are not available, with 44.1-96K appearing to be ok, whatever that means. most of what i've read from you guys and Creative site says the E-MU should be in ASIO mode, but we are doing this with WDM/KS driver running things , with the 0404 picked in LE options audio drop-down, and in the MS control panel sounds & audio cubicle (it's the only option in either place, RealTek is disabled), and either MS Wavetable synth or the 0404 as midi music out options. we must be getting fairly close , cause we don't get the dropouts and latency issues we were having over MC3 land, but like i said, the sound quality isn't super.
i haven't really messed with disabling any of the MS Media Center background quirks because we're not tying up a lot of CPU or HD space right now, but that day is probably not far away. (plus this laptop is the main home computer). we have an '02 dell desktop machine we could dedicate to this project, but it would probably need to be turbosized in the CPU and HDD arena at some point, and we can't expend any more currency on gear until we hear from publisher's clearing house or the colorado lottery folks regarding those checks we're waiting on...or at least confirmation that they are en-route.
so until then, we'll keep loitering around here and asking dumb stuff from time to time. i'm assuming that most of the tips you guys offered us in the MC3 forum apply to LE as well, but it's a little early for me to know for sure.
we'll be back

hey, Beagle...you posted while i was replying to RobertB, glad to see you are over here as well. you have a great site, by the way. good luck with your good works, and thanks for the response to our appearance over here. we feel like we can actually learn something just thru participating/ reading, and in comparison to the protools forums, it doesn't feel like i need a master's degree in CS or a jackhammer to attempt the fixes you guys present. (a bachelor's degree looks like it'll be plenty, i wish i had one....)
i think we succumbed to the it-needs-to-work-immediately school of thought as soon as we opened the
MC3 box (and E-MU/LE bundle) and jabbed the disc into the computer, it's obviously going to take a lot of research to get to the point we were at with the tape deck, or the pocket-studio5, or the CDX-1 in terms of comfort level, but they all had learning curves as well. the more things we figure out in this program, the more evident it becomes that the sonic possibilties are pretty much unlimited, and a 974 track guitar symphony is just around the (distant) corner. i might even put reverb on one of the tracks, just to shake things up a bit. . . yo.
see ya,
the left thrashburn

thanks for the website purusing, lefty!