Some newbie questions

[Shannon]

ASC is in 5th Gen format. Any program in 5th Gen format cannot be used with anything else. 5th Gen format pushes your input channels and brain so hard that attempting to do anything else at the same time will significantly degrade the performance of all programs you're using, and you won't get good results compared to using one program at a time. Using a 5G program with anything else at all is therefore not a good idea.