Hello

Does the installation of RME windows sound drivers, grey out the default windows sound mixer controls normally found in the bottom windows taskbar (win7) ? if so, how can the be ungreyed so I can configure the RME Total mix channel that has the windows sounds.

I just can not configure any windows defaults sound mixer settings or controls as they are all greyed out ?

I recently installed audacity and noticed that sound preferences setting are very limited in showing the various RME I/O CHANNELS

for both record and playback

On a closer look they seem to replicate the windows mixer settings for both record and playback

So to change my record channels for Audacity I tried to change the windows record setting and add another RME set of channels, but I can not ? as every button and option in windows mixer is greyed out

So if I wanted to assign a different RME channel for windows sounds / default computer sounds how can this be done.

Really what I'm asking is how can get control with the windows mixer so that everything is not greyed out.

I hoping this will allow me to configure various inputs from the RME Total Mix in to Audacity Software

As I understand, Audacity software portaudio. PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.

http://www.portaudio.com/

Which I think hooks on to the windows settings, so need to be able to have control over window mixer.

Any help will be very much appreciated oh i'm using windows 7 64bit

Thank You