Try:
1. Changing or reinstalling the soundcard drivers.
2. Defragmenting the hard disks
3. Forcing n-Track into 8-bit playback while recording <Preferences>. It'll sound horrible while you're recording, but should be OK when you play back everything.
4. The ESS Maestro may not be the best for recording with, try another soundcard. Elsewhere on the board, you'll find lots of hints for a good soundcard.
5. You might still end up with some latency. If all fails, you'll have to align the tracks manually. Check the first toolbar for a Plus sign with arrows at every end. Click on that, and click and drag to align the tracks manually.
6. I'm not sure Win2000, being a protected-mode system, may be the best bet for recording with n-Track.
7. From the horse's mouth, here's an extract from the help file:
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Usually there’s no need to worry about the lag setting, so read this only if you can hear a shift between the recorded tracks, and the lag indicator in the time window on the toolbar shows big values (at least greater than 1000). By default the program hides lag values below 500 (you change this via the Preferences/Recording parameters dialog box).
While you are recording, notice the value that will appear near the "lag" writing on the window. Once you have finished recording the track, write this value in the preferences dialog box (accessible via the Options menu).
This value represents the shift that occurs between the recorded track and the ones being played. If this value is < 0, write it positive in the preferences. When playing back, the program will shift all the tracks by this value against the first track. So always check that the first track (the upper one) that appears in the list box, is the first one that you have recorded. Anyway this is not a critical factor, because the lag value usually is some hundreds. To obtain the actual shift divide this value by the sampling frequency (typically 44100 Hz).
If the lag value oscillates too widely, it means that there is some problem (usually related to the soundcard’s driver) and that the program may not work properly.
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