Thank you for those tips. I installed ASIO4ALL and in MC18 selected File - Open Live - ASIO Line In and ASIO4ALL was recognized as the input device. I set Tools - Audio Output Mode to Disk Writer. Then in MC18 I selected Playing Now and it showed it was writing to my C:\Users\username\Music directory. But it wrote hundreds of small .wav files there each 345KB at the rate of about 600 files per minute. The Pause and Stop buttons in MC18 do not seem to do anything so I had to exit MC18 to stop the recording. If you cannot tell me how to get recording working in MC18 I shall have to go back to MC14. I need the recording feature for (1) recording off the microphone (2) recording off line input (vinyl disks, cassetes, radio). Will the recording feature be available in MC18 again soon? Thanks for any further advice.