[ddots-l] Configuring my pc for sonar

Last night, I created my first piece of music.  Because I know there are
readers with a wide range of sensabilities, I won't print all the lyrics
here. I will say this much.  It consisted of four vocal tracks which created
a four part harmony: consisted of two bars and four words: the first word
was "this" and the last word was "test."  I have not hooked up my midi
equipment yet. I did uninstall norton and some other nasties from the
taskbar.
My whole purpose in doing this was to simply record something. I didn't
worry much about levels: I just set the frequency to 22.5 and the bit depth
to 16.  I found thatthat when I recorded the forth track, the other three
tracks which were playing back as I recorderded were very choppy, and the
whole meter of my groundbreaking work was lost.  My question is this:
Are there any good sites on the net which discuss the compromises one can
make to create a machine to work decently with audio, while still realizing
that the machine will mainly be used for school homework and other things.
I have already had a list member vollunteer to assist me, and though I will
most likely take him u p on it, I'd like to understand the issues and
trouble shooting techniques myself, so I can be a smarter wiser person.
I don't want to clutter the list with spacific suggestions which might apply
to me, as I'm sure most of you have been through this already, but if there
are helpful links people have found, feel free to post them.
Thanks in advance.also, is there a program which will let me stop services
which are running? I don't want to go through the hastle of unchecking lots
of stuff in msconfig, then rebooting, then rechecking them when my work is
done unless I absolutely must.
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