ASIO and Microphone at the same time?

Hi all! I am brand new to this community (and a brand new Reaper user - love it so far!), and I had a question involving some of the recording capabilities. Apologies if this is in the wrong area of the forum :) First of all, I'm using the m-audio fast track USB device to record with my guitar. It's all set up now and recording beautifully. I am, however, wondering if it's possible to record via a USB microphone at the same time via multiple tracks? The ASIO audio system doesn't seem to have an option for letting me record with my USB microphone at the same time, as it forces me to select the M-audio device as my driver. Thank you ahead of time, and I apologize if anything in unclear! Just let me know, and I'll try my best to clarify.

Hi and welcome to REAPERland, you can try and see if both the fasttrack and the USBmicrophone show up. If so you can use them both at the same time in REAPER. BUT: The wordclocks of the interface and the microphone are not synched. That means that the signals will drift apart over time and you'll have to do additional work to fix that. Do yourself a favour and buy a microphone that can be connected to your interface. hth Blechi

Thank you :) I'll check it out. I'm using a Blue snowball mic at the moment (rig cost me about 150 bucks) so I'm trying to find a way to fit it into my recording so I don't feel like I wasted my money ;)

I bought a cheap Samson USB,"Go Mic".It's been a bit fiddly to set up.These USB mics have their own sound chip/card built in usually.This means that that sound chip's ASIO driver is what it expects to use in full USB mode. Here's what I have done/been playing with. Option 1: Set your computer Audio sound card to the Samson driver in the Control panel/Sounds/Audio. Now open Reaper and choose the same Samson ASIO driver.Arm your track for the vocal and see if you can get a level/response.If not play around with things until you can.however you will also,if using the USB mic,have to take it's analogue feed into your system to hear everything e.g not only the mic but Reaper's output will be going through the mic's sound chip.You can change back to your normal setup once you have done your vocals. Option 2 and the one I prefer. I use the usb cable into my Go mic to power it but then use my normal Reaper ASIO setup(In my case I use the sound chip in my Toneport GX or my E-mu 404 ASIO sound card driver) and take the analogue output of the Go-mic into my Toneport GX/Pre-amp into my PC as if I was not using a USB driven but just it's audio output like I would stick any mic into a pre-amp and then into the PC. I'm afraid I don't any recordings yet to show the sound of the little cheap mic but it does sound good but is very very sensitive so I'm working on taming it before use.

@Sheppola I really appreciate the detailed response, and I'll probably use the advice when it comes to getting Reaper to recognize my vocal USB mic, but I was just curious if it was possible for Reaper to recognize my m-Audio guitar recording equipment AND my microphone at the same time. Like if it would be possible to record directly from my guitar and be able to sing into my microphone at the same time. Seems that the software doesn't support it, so it's not a big deal! :)