ERROR: SENSORY OVERLOAD.

you have too many soundcards. please decide upon one soundcard and try again.

the setup is ridiculous. i've got cubase hooked up to an alesis multimix, which is great for recording multiple parts simultaneously. the pod has a soundcard in it, but i don't direct in much. if i'm going to direct in, i'd rather use an old soundblaster live drive!. and there's an m-audio for playback. i should probably point out that i've got the motherboard's hd chip turned right off [the drivers seems to want to dominate when they're installed].

so, now i'm playing back old midi files and am just being overwhelmed by the possibilities. worse, each synth has three or four different outs and they do all sound differently. i've determined that the "guitars" sound best through the soundblaster, but the drums sound best through the m-audio. so i'm probably going to actually mix it down from multiple synths....

i thought this would be fast and simple. guess not.