Recording Tempo

[djx81]

i use col edit 2000 with 4 tracks, In the 1st one y insert my instrumental and on the sexond track i record my voice.

The problem is that my voice starts recording fine but after10 sec in gets out of tempo it gets delayed..


I HAVE NO IdEA WHAT DA HELL IS WRONG please help me this wasnt happening before

whts wrong ? settings? operating system?what what!!!


using
win me
128 ram
athlon 850mhz

[dobro]

Might be a latency issue. What kind of soundcard have you got? How much lag is there between the vocal and the instrument tracks?

[djx81]

i have a phillips seismic edge and the delay is very little but i can notice mi voice getting delayed as i record..

[digital8trak]

the same thing happens to me alot with guitar after i insert a drum beat, after a few takes it usually comes out right, however the more i edited the first track before i insert it the higher the probability it'll happen, i dont know, and i dont really care.
f.y.i. i have a yamaha opl3-Sax soundcard

[PapillonIrl]

Is it a case of the background mixing not being able to keep up with the recording ? If so do a search on the Synt forum :
http://forums.syntrillium.com for 'skipping while recording' or something like that. I remember getting my problem solved there.

pAp.

[djx81]

well i have no idea if its a prolem with the background mixing i have tried pausing it under the options but it dont hel at all

[George Parler]

Hey djx81,

Just a shot in the dark here, but where are you storing your sound files? Are they on the same drive as everything else? Or do you have a seperate drive for sound files? And when was the last time you defraged?

Windows dosen't come optimized for audio streams but can be tweeked to do so. I'm running at 300 MHz/288 M Ram on Windows 98. So far I've not had any problem with latency. And believe it or not I haven't had to tweek Windows at all.

Knock on wood...

Defrag, it can only help.

That my two cents or cent and a half,

George

[djx81]

tahnx 4 the tip iam going to try that and see what happens i hope it helps

[trdn1]

I had this same problem, with the exact same set up. Here's the easiest fix:

Once you lay down your track, find a large wave swell that should meet up with a drum beat, but doesn't - preferrably near the end of the take. Put your cursor on the drum beat, write down the time. put cursor on wave swell, write down the time. Divide the two, and you should get a ratio near 99.8% . Now, take this number into time stretch, click on resample and enter ratio at the top. this should stretch out the wav, and everything will be lined up, provided you played in tempo.

any more Q's - i struggled with this for 2 years - just shoot an email.

[djx81]

well i want to thank every 1 for helping, my problem was solved by installing cool edit again doin a hard drive partition just for wavs, i still think that the program was just bullshiting me but as we all know "shit happens"


thanx :