Dropout frustrations...

[Atom Bomb]

I have Cakewalk Sonar 4.

I am trying to re-record tracks from an external Roland workstation into my cakewalk.

Ideally id like to get one stereo track into My laptop but for some reason i cant figure out how to do this so i have to plunk it track by track into my Laptop.

I doubt its my hardware themselves its a sturdy well built hp...the sound card is the built in one.... its just the mic jack.....ugh.

So after many bumps in the road and thought i had a nice way of doing it down...

I listend to the play back after lining up the tracks and near the end everything gets all out of sync phase and all that.

I am assuming im dropping out and something isnt keeping up with something else.

I played a little with buffer size and latency i am still getting some lag and stuff.

I used the wave profiler and jigged with a few things here and there but i am still getting bips pops and dropouts...

How can i fix this.

Or is it impossible to record more then 1 minute or two of digital audio?

How much of help would it be to switch from 44000hz to 22000hz ? how much sound quality am losing ...

Keeping this is a demo recording for a metal bands myspace.

Ill shut up now.

[dachay2tnr]

Originally Posted by Atom Bomb

I doubt its my hardware themselves its a sturdy well built hp...the sound card is the built in one.... its just the mic jack.....ugh.

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You can't record a stereo track through a mic jack. Mic jacks are mono. You need to use the line in jack.

Depending on the output connections of your Roland, you should be able to feed a stereo mix from the Roland to Sonar via your sound card.

For example, if the Roland has L/R RCA outputs, you will need a Y cable that goes from two RCA plugs, to a stereo 1/8" plug (the line in port on your sound card). Radio Shack should have what you need.

Set up Sonar to record from Line In Stereo, and you should be good to go.

[brzilian]

Originally Posted by Atom Bomb

I have Cakewalk Sonar 4.

I am trying to re-record tracks from an external Roland workstation into my cakewalk.

Ideally id like to get one stereo track into My laptop but for some reason i cant figure out how to do this so i have to plunk it track by track into my Laptop.

I doubt its my hardware themselves its a sturdy well built hp...the sound card is the built in one.... its just the mic jack.....ugh.

So after many bumps in the road and thought i had a nice way of doing it down...

I listend to the play back after lining up the tracks and near the end everything gets all out of sync phase and all that.

I am assuming im dropping out and something isnt keeping up with something else.

I played a little with buffer size and latency i am still getting some lag and stuff.

I used the wave profiler and jigged with a few things here and there but i am still getting bips pops and dropouts...

How can i fix this.

Or is it impossible to record more then 1 minute or two of digital audio?

How much of help would it be to switch from 44000hz to 22000hz ? how much sound quality am losing ...

Keeping this is a demo recording for a metal bands myspace.

Ill shut up now.

Get a better quality audio interface designed for recording which has low latency ASIO or WDM drivers.

Since you are on a laptop, you are limited either a Firewire or PC-Card audio interface. USB audio interfaces are a waste of money and are not reliable if you try and record more than 4 tracks simultaneously.

It would be easier for people to maket specific recommendations if you woud indicate how many inputs you would need.

Recording at 22Khz makes no sense whatsoever since that is below CD quality.

[Atom Bomb]

Originally Posted by dachay2tnr

For example, if the Roland has L/R RCA outputs, you will need a Y cable that goes from two RCA plugs, to a stereo 1/8" plug (the line in port on your sound card). Radio Shack should have what you need.

ahhh i was on the right track. i have this cable ... but i am lacking an actual line in input.... that sucks.

As for the other guys comment... something like the m-audio fast track wouldnt help me in this situation?

and i didnt think the 22000hz thing was a good idea either but i thought id mention it.