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Laptop Sound Card

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robnokshus06

I recently picked up an HP dv9700 notebook with 3gigs, of RAM, lots of storage, running Windows Vista Home Premium. This is my first notebook computer so any help will be appreciated! I use the Sony suite of software; Vegas, Acid, Sound Forge. So far the software seems to work allright with Vista, but I have yet to really put it through it's paces. One of the main tasks that I need to perform is lifting audio from DVDs. I use Sound Forge and Nero Show Time to facilitate this on my pc with no problem. However, the notebook has an, for lack of a better term, extremely juvenile "mixer"; lots of graphics of speakers and sofas and those little "Weeble" icons that are supposed to represent people, but no professional mixer interface. Consequently I cannot route the audio to Sound Forge as I would like. I need to be able to record events from other sources (DVD, Web audio, etc...) on the laptop. Better sound would be nice too!

I have a USB mixer for any serious outside recording. I'm mainly looking for a low cost solution to my routing/mixing problem. Would something like the Creative X-Fi notebook card be what I need? Are there USB devices? Software? What are some of you using?
 
This is Vista's problem, not your sound card. Vista removed the recording mixer that was in all versions since Windows 95. I'm considering buying a small USB board to solve similar problems.
 
Vista Mixer

This was discussed some months back in this thread.

The consensus seems to be that an inexpensive program called "Power Mixer for Vista" from Actual Solution restores the audio controls that either don't exist, or are hidden in Vista. Check it out here.

Good Luck!
 
Thanks for the link to the previous thread Rox! That did the trick! (Guess I shoulda been barking up the Vista Tree) I was able to find the "hidden" stereo mix I had been looking for and the corresponding options in Sound Forge. Everything works great now. Thanks a lot!
 
Hey, no problem. I remembered the previous thread because I was anticipating the same problem when I switched from XP to Vista. And, I have a mind like a steel, uh, um, what were we talking about?
 
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