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Subject:Recording Delay in ACID 6 Posted by: Kevb123 Date:5/14/2006 2:46:35 PM I've been using ACID since version 2.0. I've never had any trouble recording audio tracks until version 5.0. I got so frustrated with the delay (however many milliseconds) it would put on my recorded tracks (both audio and midi), that I no longer used ACID as my main program. I recently downloaded the full time trial demo of 6.0, and I was delighted to see that my midi tracks no longer have that delay, but my audio tracks do. I know there have been several other post about this same thing, and I have tried all the solutions mentioned, but nothing has worked. Like I said, ACID 4.0 works perfectly for recording audio and my sound card settings are identical! ACID 6.0 seems to work far better than 5.0, so this is the one thing keeping me from purchasing the upgrade. If someone can explain this to me in plain english, I would be greatful! I'm using a regular Sound Blaster Live sound card in a computer with enough RAM and memory to easily handle ACID.
Subject:RE: Recording Delay in ACID 6 Reply by: PeterWright Date:5/14/2006 11:47:04 PM Do you have ASIO drivers for your sound card? These are practically essential for multitrack audio.
Subject:RE: Recording Delay in ACID 6 Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:5/15/2006 6:06:03 AM This is what’s so confusing about this post. It worked fine in ACID 4 with the same sound card and MIDI has no latency in ACID 6 just audio. I would think that both would have latency or neither would but this is very strange. The Soundblaster Live doesn’t have ASIO drivers so you would have to use 3rd party drivers like ASIO4ALL or KXProject. While I’d bet using ASIO drivers will definitely fix the problem, I can’t explain why it worked in ACID 4 without them. Something has to be different. ~jr
Subject:RE: Recording Delay in ACID 6 Reply by: ohmaya Date:5/17/2006 8:02:43 AM I just did a mother board upgrade to my PC after upgrading to Win XP PRO from Win 2000k Pro and miraculously, the latency I was experincing in ACID 6/WinXP disappeared. I also stopped having those annoying shutdowns and freezeups. I'm thinking it was all due to chipsets needing upgrades that were hosing the aduio device drivers. Im not saying that the solution is this drastic a hardware swap, but I was blaming ACID 6and it was probably a driver issue. I have a 3Ghz. 2GB RAM PC with lots of power and Delta 410 with ASIO and it all works AOK for now - 0 latency. The BIOS and chipset was the issue.
Subject:RE: Recording Delay in ACID 6 Reply by: MacMoney Date:5/17/2006 2:57:05 PM Good catch Flo M! Tony Mac
Subject:RE: Recording Delay in ACID 6 Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:5/17/2006 3:22:07 PM Flo M, How about sharing the name of the motherboard that didn’t work to help others who have this motherboard as well as the name of the one that did work for people looking to upgrade. ~jr Message last edited on5/17/2006 3:22:20 PM byJohnnyRoy.

Subject:Recording Delay in ACID 6

Posted by: Kevb123

Date:5/14/2006 2:46:35 PM

I've been using ACID since version 2.0. I've never had any trouble recording audio tracks until version 5.0. I got so frustrated with the delay (however many milliseconds) it would put on my recorded tracks (both audio and midi), that I no longer used ACID as my main program. I recently downloaded the full time trial demo of 6.0, and I was delighted to see that my midi tracks no longer have that delay, but my audio tracks do.

I know there have been several other post about this same thing, and I have tried all the solutions mentioned, but nothing has worked. Like I said, ACID 4.0 works perfectly for recording audio and my sound card settings are identical!

ACID 6.0 seems to work far better than 5.0, so this is the one thing keeping me from purchasing the upgrade. If someone can explain this to me in plain english, I would be greatful!

I'm using a regular Sound Blaster Live sound card in a computer with enough RAM and memory to easily handle ACID.