theres so no way 50 dollar software is this complicated

well ive read every single post in this forum on latency problems. i bought music creator like months ago and have been fed up with the fact i can record a single track with no problem. but then when i want to add an addition part that works with the one i just did... its all messed up. ive messed with buffers and slid that sensitivity thing to the left. its just not helping. theres no way you need a multiple hundred dollar soundcard with a cheap recording software. my computer is also fairly new..just bought it. the soundcard that is in it is.....a Conexant AC-Link 2 Channel Audio... its the one that came with it. i also read the post about getting a small mixer... did that as well its a nady 4 channel.. also when i want to record guitar i run it through a marshall head that has an emulated line out...especially for recording.. before it goes through the mixer and then finally into the soundcard. anyone have an idea? i just want to have fun and create. its not like im setting up a bigshot high tech freaking studio here.......

Visual Studio is only $50 on a discount, and I promise you its complicated!

wellwellwell....the problem is latency still. idk you can download software from the internet and have no latency problems...for free i might add... you just cant do all that other garble that music creator does. and yeah actually computers are recording studios now days. and my computer happens to be a laptop...im at college and definitely do not have the money to spend on more stuff to add to this already thousand dollar laptop. its a gateway ... i have an intel celeron processor 1.40GHz...and 504MB of RAM. anyone have any like real crafty ways i could possibly get rid of latency and just record something.

well im really relieved to hear that my laptop isnt total crap... ok let me see if i can explain very very clearly whats going on for you. thanks for being so helpful though in answer my dumb questions. ok i plug my guitar into a marshall head which has an emulated line output, made just for what im doing, that line hooks into my mixer, which then plugs into my soundcard. i hit record and play away. ive already un highlighted the input monitering so i do not hear my guitar through the speakers while i play. the problem comes up when i then listen to the playback from what i just recorded while i play an alternate part... still not hearing what im playing that that instant... only hearing the playback from the previous part. after im done playing.. the second part is a split second slower than the first part. so it does not sound very good at all. resulting in me only being able to record one decent sounding guitar track.

i totally have to give you mad props haha. i switched the drivers from MME to the WDM ones and like problem solved totally. thank you soooo much for all the help. i can now record multiple parts together. thanks again

Well said Greg, and I might add, that freebies from the internet might seem easier, but they are usually far less complicated because they do far less.