Subject:Recording lag with Acid pro 5

Posted by: danplaysbass

Date:4/8/2005 7:55:08 PM

I have been using Acid 3 and 4 for several years and never had a problem. I recently upgraded to Acid 5 and am running into an interesting issue. To better explain my problem I'll give you my setup.

I use Betamonkey Music drum loops (awesome if you havent heard about them) which have a set BPM. For this case I am using a 160 BPM loops. So I set the main project tempo to 160 BPM. Now I want to record my guitar, bass and vox. I run all these into an outboard mixer and take it's stereo output to the line in on my soundcard (a turtle beach Santa Cruz). I then run the output of my soundcard back to the mixer to another aux channel (so I can monitor what I am playing as I play it). All this works great (and I have use the same setup with Acid 3 and 4).

So I import a drum track and paint it in (to give me a tempo). Now I go to record (turn off metronome) and start recording. I can hear my drum track and play along with it and stay in sync with it.

Now here is the problem. Once I stop recording and the track is built the timing is way off. It seems to me that the recorded track moves faster than the loop for I lose the rhythm sync and the sound goes to crap. I have tried recording with beatmapper on and off and nothing I have done seems to help.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Subject:RE: Recording lag with Acid pro 5

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:4/8/2005 8:43:34 PM

Try playing with the "user recording latency offset" (on the Audio tab under Options > Preferences) to see if that helps. (You'll have to uncheck the "automatically detect and offset latency" setting first.)

I remember having a similar problem awhile back with ACID Pro 4 but I believe it turned out to be a driver-specific issue.

Does the Santa Cruz have a software mixer of some sort? It kind of sounds like your setup is more complicated than it needs to be.

For example, my Echo MiaMIDI allows me to monitor my guitar recording while the rest of my ACID project plays back. This is all done via the MiaMIDI's mixer console.

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Subject:RE: Recording lag with Acid pro 5

Reply by: danplaysbass

Date:4/9/2005 9:23:49 AM

I have my reasons for using this setup and it works great for me. I will try your suggestion and report back. Thanks.

Subject:RE: Recording lag with Acid pro 5

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:4/10/2005 5:15:22 AM

Does the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card have ASIO drivers. If so, you should be using them and set the latency to between 5-10ms. If it doesn’t have ASIO drivers, try the free ASIO4ALL drivers and see if that works.

Also, is it possible that you are recording at a different sample rate than playback? This might also cause things to playback faster.

~jr