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Need Help with confusing audio settings in Win 7(Adobe Aud 3 affected)
I recently got a Toshiba Satellite S55 laptop with Windows 7 and I am very pleased with it.
I couldn't get my copy of Cool Edit Pro v2.1 to run on it, but was lucky enough to get a copy of Adobe Audition 3, which installed without any problems, and is very much like Cool Edit Pro, with many of the controls in the same locations onscreen. It has worked fine for editing existing audio.
I needed to record some audio directly off the Internet (legally) and everything seemed to work fine. Went to get a cup of coffee and when I returned, the short audio was done, so I stopped the recording and listened to make sure I had it. What I heard was the audio as it was recorded from the computer's built-in microphone and not directly from the computer. Horrible room ambience, as you can imagine.
First thing I did was to right-click on the speaker icon on the toolbar, then "recording devices," and disable the microphone. The caption reads: "Conexant SmartAudio HD" and was greyed out with note "disabled."
When I re-opened Adobe Audition, I got a message that said something about no audio (sorry, did not catch the exact wording). Clicking on it again opened the program, but the level indicators showed no audio at all going in. And I couldn't undo the greyed-out microphone icon to see if ANY audio was going in at all.
So, I googled around a bit for an answer and wound up deleting Conexant SmartAudio HD and then downloaded and installed the most recent version of it from the Toshiba website. I assume that's an audio driver? But the problem was not solved, so after more googling, I downloaded and installed ASIO4ALL2.
I was able to partially re-set a few settings and thought all was solved, but it is not. I am essentially back where I started from and find the ASIO instruction manual more confusing than straightforward.
It looks like I'm dancing around the edges of a solution, so if you can give me a hand with this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and attention.