Cassette / LP to digital audio problem

[NY Chief]

Hey guys, I bought an ION Tape 2 PC cassette deck to transfer old analog to digital. It came with it's own dub software and Audacity. It has a USB out. The cassette dub works pretty well. I also got an Art Accessories phono pre-amp with USB out for my turnatable. That seems to work well with the ION software. But, the ION software is bundled inside Itunes and it automatically creates an Itunes folder were it files the digitized music. So, of course eveytime I open Itunes I have to deal with advertisements. Annoying but I can deal with it.

The problem is that for some reason it disables all my audio output. I'm running this all through ProTools and even my Pro Tools files don't have any Audio after I transfer a cassette or LP. I checked in the Control Panel under Audio Devices and Pro Tools is active btu no sound. I shut it down last night pissed off that I couldn't find what changed. I started her up this morning and everything played fine! WTF???

I'm running a SweetWater creation station w/ XP. It does not have a separate sound card. (So I can't hear youtube clips... ). All audio is routed through PT.

What is this software re setting??????

[gutpile]

Look in your control panel under "Sounds and Audio Devices", the software probably changed your default setting... Kind of like whe you installed iTunes it asked if you wanted it to be the default for all audio and video files... only difference is it probably didn't ask you and juse changed your default... change it back and you should be good to go? unless I am misreading your issue? If it doesn't work, take it up with the guy in profile pic!

[NY Chief]

If it doesn't work, take it up with the guy in profile pic!

That's the "genius" that CAUSED the problem in the first place!

You're right on, Mike. That's what I thought but everytime I went back to "Sounds and Audio Devices" it was still on the Digi002 port. Not changed.

The only thing I can think off is that it may be an IRQ hierarchy or USB confusion. The PC is seeing 3 USB inputs, cassette deck, turntable and Pro Tools.

I'm not sure how the PC handles multi USB inputs.

[NY Chief]

Damn, now it's not even recognizing Pro Tools...