First, I want to thank you all for helping me out with my latency issue that I posted recently.  I ended up purchasing a Lexicon Alpha USB device (which shipped with CuBase LE) and installed the device with the most current Win XP drivers.  I opened Music Creator, and played back something I recorded recently, and it seemed fine.  Now the problem...
 
When I go to record a track, I get nothing but an evil "Hiss" from the speakers.  Even just to play back what was previously recorded, I need to close and reopen Music Creator.  So I searched this forum a bit, and saw some posts about ASIO drivers.  So I download and installed them, and switched the settings in MC to use ASIO drivers.  At that point, I got all sorts of errors concering playback devices, and I got no sound whatsoever.  Those drivers also seemed to mess up all other audio on my PC....Windows Media Player and Winamp gave me all sorts of driver errors.
 
I ended up installing CuBase, which I'm not thrilled with, but it works.  Even with that software, I get an ocassional "hiss", but it only last a second or 2 then goes away.  I don't want to put in the time to learn a new piece of software when I am perfectly happy with MC.
 
Any ideas??
 
Thanks!

Have you made sure that MC is not trying to use the integrated soundchip? Those are not capable of using ASIO which might lead to all kinds of error messages. Select only the Lexiconns audio drivers and select the Lexicon as recording and playback timing master. Also check that MC and Lexicon are set to same sample rate and bit depth.

Thanks for the reply!  I will check to see if MC and Lexicon are set to the same sample rate and bit depth, I just don't know how to get those settings from the Lexicon!  I will look further into if MC is using the inegrated sound chip, but I don't think so as it was playing back previously recorded music through the Lexicon until I armed a track for recording. That's when the evil hiss started.  MC works fine up until I arm a track for recording, then all bets are off.  It's when I switched MC to use ASIO that it couldn't play back anything.   I ended up unistalling the ASIO drivers from the PC entirely as it seemed to cause issues with Media Player and Winamp.
 
 

ASIO should have no effect on WinAmp Or WMP, they should run on WDM.
 
To make MC wirk proerly install the ASIO driver and open MC, go to options Audio and set the playback and record timer to Lexicon ASIO. Set to to 16 bit 44,1000 sample rate to start with. Next go to the system tray (far right corner of scree, and open the lexicon applet. Make sure it is set to 16 bit 44,100 sample rate and around 512 buffering rate Go into MC and import a MP3 file or wave file from what ever folder you keep such creatures in and once it loads hit play. You should hear the file or song play through the speakers if they are attached to the lexicon.

Now go to the internet and download a free midi file http://www.findmidis.com/  right click a file and save target to the desktop. Go back to MC and open a new file. go to file and hit open and direct it to the midi file.

Once it is open go to the synth rack at the tool bar of MC, and open it and add TTS .

Now close the synth rack, and go to each track of the midi file and set the output to TTS, and hit play. Should hear midi.

All should work well for you.

Later when comfortable experiment with 24 bit recording, and try using 256 buffering it will get your latency down some.

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Robomusic


ASIO should have no effect on WinAmp Or WMP, they should run on WDM.
 
To make MC wirk proerly install the ASIO driver and open MC, go to options Audio and set the playback and record timer to Lexicon ASIO. Set to to 16 bit 44,1000 sample rate to start with. Next go to the system tray (far right corner of scree, and open the lexicon applet. Make sure it is set to 16 bit 44,100 sample rate and around 512 buffering rate Go into MC and import a MP3 file or wave file from what ever folder you keep such creatures in and once it loads hit play. You should hear the file or song play through the speakers if they are attached to the lexicon.

Now go to the internet and download a free midi file http://www.findmidis.com/  right click a file and save target to the desktop. Go back to MC and open a new file. go to file and hit open and direct it to the midi file.

Once it is open go to the synth rack at the tool bar of MC, and open it and add TTS .

Now close the synth rack, and go to each track of the midi file and set the output to TTS, and hit play. Should hear midi.

All should work well for you.

Later when comfortable experiment with 24 bit recording, and try using 256 buffering it will get your latency down some.

Thanks you for the reply....
 
So this is where I'm at.  I downloaded the asio driver from asio4all and installed it.  When I open MC, the only option is Lexicon in/out and "none" for the driver.  There's no option for Lexicon ASIO or ASIO4all. 
 
If I open Cubase, I have all options (lexicon in/out, Lexicon ASIO, and ASIO4all) and if I select ASIO4all driver, it pops up the systray control panel.  Problem is, I get no sound unless I use the Lexicon In/Out driver.
 
Just for the record, I titled this thread "Hissing", but it's more of a static sound.  It's terrible!
 
Anymore suggestions would be appreciated.  As of this second, the only thing that works at all is Cubase with the Lexicon unit, and even that gives me the "evil" static sound randomly for a few seconds while recording.  SO frunstrating!

You can't use ASIO when you have ASIO4All installed.
Delete ASIO4All from your computer, then try the Lexicon ASIO driver.

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You can't use ASIO when you have ASIO4All installed.
Delete ASIO4All from your computer, then try the Lexicon ASIO driver.

Even without ASIO4ALL, MC only gives me the option for Lexicon in/out, not Lexicon ASIO.
Are you saying I should try uninstalling ASIO4ALL, and selectin ASIO instead on MME32 (I think that's what it's called, not in front of my MC computer at the moment)?
 
Cubase (which shipped with the lexicon unit) does give me Lexicon ASIO as an option.

Here is the Deal. ASIO4All is not a true ASIO driver, it is a wrapper that makes the windows WDM driver think it is ASIO.

Interfaces like the Lexicon come with driver install disks that contain true native ASIO drivers. You should find the driver here  http://lexiconpro.com/downloads.php 

The reason Cubase sees a driver might because Cubase is a Stienberg product, and yes you guessed it they created ASIO drivers.

The big question is did you install the Lexicon driver disk, or just the cubase install disk?

If you want MC5 to work on ASIO drivers, you need to make sure they are installed properly.