Cakewalk HS 2002 Timeing Prob Help!!!!!

[rmusgrove]

I recenlty made the mistake of buying a Compaq with Win XP preloaded. Ever since I have had problems.

First of all my Cakewalk 6.0 wouldn't work so I bought Cakewalk Home Studio 2002. Now the real problems begun.

Everything on Home Studio works great as long as I'm recording one track. As soon as I atempt a second track I have problems. The second track of a project falls out of sync (time) with the first track at about 24 Secs into the song. The second track seems to fall behind by one beat or more.

I'm not useing any MIDI devices. All of my recordings are done useing a microphone and a guitar.

I lay the guitar track, then try to sing the lead vocals on the second track. The vocals fall out of time at 24 secs into the song when I play it back.

I'm useing a "Soundmax" soundcard that came pre-installed with my Compaq 6000 which has a PIV 1.6Ghz Proc., 256MB Ram, etc. I've been told on more than one occasion by Cakewalk Support that his card is more than enough to do what I am wanting.

I've spoke with customer support (if you can call it that) three times and they keep telling me to play with my buffer settings.

I actually got HS to work a few time and completed a few songs with no timing problems and then when I least expect it, they return.

HELP!!!!!!!

[zandere]

Try this if you havent already..... Go to options, audio, and general tab on the bottom there is a field called mixing latency make sure that the buffer is set to fast.

[Major Tom]

Try this (In this order) one at a time rerun the Wave Profiler after each change: Options/Audio/General is your sound card listed as Playback Timing Master and Recording Timing Master?

Set the sampling rate is set to 44100 and file bit depth is 16, Sound max might not support anything other, but you might try the 48000 setting also.

Goto Options/Projrct.../Clock, make sure source is set to Audio

Goto Options/Audio/Advanced, check the Always use MME interface even when WDM drivers are enabled. this seems to fix a lot of peoples Sonar/Soundcard issues

In the above tab, you might also check to see if enable read caching and enable write caching are checked, if not, try checking them.
Let me know...