Apparently the problem is data reading in the boot drive. I skipped a step: the computer was home, and is back in the shop. I hope to get it back in a week or so. Time to get back into recording: the band is imploding, as they tend to do over time. At Saturday night's gig, the lead player accused the singer of hitting on his wife. =sigh=
In the meantime, I loaded CEP 2.0 on my graphics machine (the one I'm typing on), recorded into
my Korg D888 (I don't have a suitable sound card on this computer), and imported the tracks into CEP for editing/mixdown.
I was recording two singer/guitarists, individually over a couple of days. With the limitations of the Korg , I still wanted to record M/S (my favorite way of recording solo acts). As I'm sure you all know, M/S records 2 tracks from a figure-8 mic placed at right angles to a cardioid; the figure-8 mic is monophonic, so one of the tracks is flipped in polarity. Then you pan the tracks from the figure-8 (the "S", or "Side" in M/S; the "M", or "Mid", is the cardioid) left and right, and leave the cardioid in the middle. The result is a nice stereo field; the main drawback is that you have to take some time to get the vocal/guitar balance right.
Anyhow, the Korg doesn't have the ability to send a single source to 2 tracks, nor can you flip polarity ("phase", commonly so called) before recording.
The solution was to import the figure-8 (from a beyerdynamic ribbon) track TWICE into CEP, then, in Edit View, select the length of one of these tracks and select Effects/Invert.
Back in Multitrack View, center the track from the cardioid, and pan the two side tracks left and right (you can control the stereo field by the amount of panning), and there you are.
Of course, I'm leaving out the various processing done on the tracks, but the result, if you have a reasonably good-sounding room, is a nice stereo spread with a convincing reverb.