Music Creator 3- 2 questions...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1089116
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1049971

The clicking could be the metronome, if it's heard while recording, too, but most likely your sound card is the problem and or you have the latency slider too far to the left, or other running programs are making noise, or you need to be in MME driver mode.
At the top, go to 'options>audio>advanced' and tell us what the settings are there. Go ahead and change the driver mode on that screen to 'MME' and run the wave profiler from there, too. Close and re-open MC and tell us what happened.
And while you're in there, tell us what the sampling and bit rates are. The sound card has to sample at the same rate as MC.
Greg

You just click on "New Post" at the top.

If you can get MC 2003 to work with Vista, you'll be the first. Others have said they can get MC 3 to work, somewhat limitedly. If I were you and had a spare $50 lying around, I'd get the new MC 4 which is claimed to be Vista-compatible.
Search posts (click 'search' all the way at the top) with the word "Vista" in the body and you may find out how others have made it work, but I don't remember what the few who did it did to get MC and Vista to work and play well together.
Greg

Thanks guys. I used the patch and it loaded but the font set on the "piano roll" is all goofed up. Lots of scissors and square notes....
(sounds good though!)