Subject:Latency Delay Problem

Posted by: jinx101

Date:7/20/2008 10:04:19 PM

I purchased Acid Music Studio 7 recently and am having have been unsuccesful at getting it to record without a delay between the first track and the any additional tracks. I have changed the latency settings to every possible setting and can't get it lined up. I'm at my wits end. I am using one of the included drum loops and then laying a guitar track over it (which is plugged in to the mic jack). I used to use n-track studio on this same hardware with no latency problems (granted, it was on XP.. which, it didn't work with Vista hence me changing to this software). I have tried to the setting to automatically set latency and I've also tried to manually set it (which doesn't seem to do anything when I change the latency on the current recording or when I re-record the track, I can't tell any difference, it doesn't seem to get any closer to the beat).

My Setup:

Dell Dimension 8400
Intel Pentium 4, 3.4 Ghz Single Core Hyper Threaded
3 Gig of RAM
Windows Vista SP1
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)
nVidia GForce 8600 Video Card
Sony Acid Music Studio 7

I have tried these audio device types:

Microsoft Sound Mapper
Direct Sound Surround Mapper
Windows Classic Wave Driver
Creative ASIO (sound won't record with this)
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS ASIO (sound won't record with this)

This product has _a lot_ of poetential but if I can't figure this out it's basically unusable for me (e.g., simple multi track recording). Someone, please help. ;)

Subject:RE: Latency Delay Problem

Reply by: jinx101

Date:7/21/2008 9:06:45 AM

Here's an update. I stayed up until 3 in the morning last night and I think I found something that helps on my system (I've only tested it with 4 tracks or so). After reading through these forums I Google'd asio4all and downloaded it from http://www.asio4all.com/. This put the ASIO4ALL recording driver onto my system. I changed from the Microsoft Sound Mapper to this and bang, the latency seems to be gone. I haven't tried it with more than 4 tracks but it appears to have saved the day for me. I'll report back if I have any problems with it.

Subject:RE: Latency Delay Problem

Reply by: pwppch

Date:7/21/2008 9:17:27 AM

Creative ASIO drivers.: Can you provide me some more details related to the problems you have? I have not been able to reproduce.

The Mapper and Wave Classic Drivers will always introduce latency to the point where recording may be unusable.

Peter

Subject:RE: Latency Delay Problem

Reply by: Junyah

Date:7/25/2008 11:43:13 PM

I'm a novice and I have had this ASIO download but I don't understand how to use it. I messed around with it but I have a delay stll. I have tried just recording the metronome thru my mic and it records the clicks a hair later.

Subject:RE: Latency Delay Problem

Reply by: pwppch

Date:7/26/2008 8:47:09 AM

How much is a "hair"?

There will always be an offset unless the ASIO driver correctly compensates for the hardware offset. A good ASIO driver will have an offset in 10's of samples. A bad driver can be off by milliseconds. Wave and Mapper can be off by 10s of milliseconds or more as they do not report input to output offsets.

In the prefs page there is a setting that lets you adjust for this. Look at the audio devices preferences page.

Peter