WinSound

This driverset makes Windows Audio and MIDI devices available for use by MultitrackStudio.

WinSound Settings window (Pro Plus edition, Professional has only one MIDI In and two MIDI Out devices)

In the Audio In Device section you can select the device that is used for audio recording.

In the Audio Out sections you can select the devices that will be used for audio playback.
In the Audio Out Devices (High Latency) section you can select the device that will be used when there is no recording softsynth. The devices listed are MME devices (which are very reliable, even when CPU usage is high).
In the Audio Out Devices (Low Latency) section you can select the device that will be used when there are one or more recording softsynths. The devices listed are DirectSound devices (which can have a very low latency).

Note for Windows 95 users: to be able to use DirectSound devices Microsoft DirectX must be installed.

In general you will use MME and DirectSound devices that use the same soundcard. WinSound will automatically open/close the appropriate device.

The 24 bit buttons can be used to enable 24 bit recording/playback. It's recommended to enable this only if the soundcard actually supports it, if it doesn't the soundcard's driver may perform bad or even crash your computer in some cases.

In the MIDI In Devices section you can select the device that is used for MIDI recording.

In the MIDI Out Devices section you can select the device that is used for MIDI playback. The option 'MIDI Mapper' uses the default Windows MIDI output device.

If you have a hardware control surface you can select the MIDI devices it is connected to in the Control Surface section.

It's a good idea to use Audio In and Out devices that are on the same soundcard. If they're not their samplerates probably aren't equal. This can be quite a problem, as recorded tracks will slowly go out-of-sync during playback.
If necessary you can use the Sample Rate Converter to correct the sample rate of every recorded track. To determine the required samplerate you should record a playing track. Use the track's editor to determine the timing difference between those two tracks (at the end of the track). The new samplerate is equal to original samplerate multiplied by the playing time of the original track and divided by that of the recorded track.

Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! soundcards (and its cheaper brothers like 128, 512, 1024, Ensoniq AudioPCI) use a slightly higher samplerate for recording than for playback at a samplerate of 44.1 kHz. MultitrackStudio features a unique compensation for this effect. This compensation can be turned on by checking the Apply EMU10k1 44.1 kHz Audio Sync Correction box.

When using a samplerate of 48 kHz this problem does not occur, and the 'Apply EMU10k1 44.1 kHz Audio Sync Correction' setting has no effect.