Subject:HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Wy-baby-love

Date:10/25/2006 2:52:22 PM

Hey everybody. I've had the ACID MUSIC STUDIO Program that I bought from best buy. My guitar teacher introduced it to me and I started using it at his studio. I bought it myself and now there is a problem. When I record something, and I go to play it back, it plays what I recorded over the loop but it plays in about a part of a second late. So my newly recorded track sounds like a nice piece of S*#$. Also. I am recording on a laptop. A gateway MX6124 model. I also have my RP200 guitar effects pedal hooked up to it into the microphone jack. The only two jacks the notebook has is the headphones and microphone jacks. No line in jack. I have a double sided 1/8 cable from the headphone jack in my pedal to the mic jack in the front of the computer. I dont know if what I have setup is the problem but I've tryed it on my friends computer and It does the same. I really want to record and this has been frustrating me sso much. If someone who had the same problem could give me some help that would be great. I have so many ideas and I want to record them !!!! Some help would be great.

Subject:RE: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/25/2006 4:56:26 PM

Can you fill out your system specs in your profile?

This specifically sounds like an audio hardware issue. The delay is caused by the type of audio device you tell ACID to use.

From the discription of your laptop it provides AC97 compliant audio.

ASIO is the prefered driver model, but if you hardware does not support ASIO, then you should try using the Wave Classic Driver vs the Mapper mode in the Audio Preferences page in ACID.

If the problem persits, you should use uncheck

"Automatically detect and offset for hardware recording latency"

on the Audio preferences page in ACID.

You can then set the "User recording latency offset" value to account for any delay during your recording.

Depending on the specific audio hardware and drivers in your machine, you may be able to obtain ASIO drivers.

Peter

Subject:RE: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply by: Wy-baby-love

Date:10/25/2006 5:31:32 PM

hey you sound like you kno alot aobut this. ok I'll send you the link for the specs on my Laptop. If it is a hardware issue could you tell me were I could get one and what to ask for??? How do you apply the audio stuff you talking about too. I have no clue on how that works. Thanks, It's good to know that people actually know about this.

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/6000Series/5386sp3.shtml

Also,
Are you a guitar player, and if you are, could you tell me the best way to hook my RP200 to my Laptop. that would be great. Thanks

Subject:RE: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/25/2006 9:20:45 PM

I already googled for you specific system, that is why I could post what I did. I was hoping that you would fill out your system profile for your account here.

You can tell specifically what type of audio hardware you have on your system by going to the Windows Control Pannel and starting teh "Sounds and Audio Device" applet. This page will tell you the name of the audio hardware.

The timing issues you are having are related to your audio hardware and the drivers provided for this hardware.

I don't know the specifics of your hardware or what types of drivers are provided by Gateway. Again, something you will have to investigate and research into a bit.

You need to read - or at least review - the ACID manual or the online help to get familar with how ACID works and is configured.

Nope, not a guitar player.

From looking at the RP200 box, you will need at least a 1/4 stereo to 1/8 stereo converter. Radio Shack has these. My guess is that the RP200 provides line level out.

If you only use a mono cable out of this, then you will need an adaptor or y-splitter to input to your laptop and then set up ACID to record from either the left or right channel.

Since your guitar instructor led you to ACID, he would be a great person to discuss such issues with. Find out what type of audio interface he uses. My guess is he is using an audio interface that is designed for use with guitar. The built in audio hardware in a laptop is typically very low end and just not intended for any type of audio recording like you want to do.


Peter

Subject:RE: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/26/2006 9:32:59 AM

In addition to what Peter said, you should look into any of the mobile audio interfaces by M-Audio or Echo. Your laptop has four USB 2.0 ports as well as a FireWire port.

I'm a guitarist, but I do things differently. I have my DigiTech GNX2 guitar effects processor hooked up to my Echo MiaMIDI's S/PDIF and 1/4" ins. This is so I can record a dry track (via the S/PDIF) while recording wet (via the 1/4"). I also have the MIDI I/O connected as well for the purposes of changing patches/parameters during recording. (I'm using ACID Pro 6.)

Iacobus

Subject:RE: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply by: Wy-baby-love

Date:10/29/2006 10:45:24 AM

Thanks for all the help guys. I did find out what the problem was. In prefrences, under audio, there is something called Latency or something of that sort, and mine was on 0. So I turned the level up and I kept adjusting it until my playback was normal. I don't think it had anything to do with the hardware. I thought it was also and it concerned me but it was much more simple. I just started my second song a couple days ago and it works great!!! Thanks for all your support!