Latency in recording

Oxcyde

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Hi there, I'm using;

P4 2.8GHz
1GB RAM
Windows XP -Service pack 2
Soundblaster Live! 24Bit Soundcard
Latest Sounblaster drivers.
Acid Pro 6
Soundforge 8

I'm getting terrible lag / drift on my recordings but don't exactly know how much. Enough to know it's very off beat and gets very irritating knowing I have to re-line it each time I record on a track.

Firstly, is there a way I can find out how much latency in ms I'm actually dealing with?
And also I've read up upon ASIO drivers and apparently my card supports them but I get a very bad crackle while using them and that's still with a large ms latency range.

P.S; I've heard people say that freezing MIDI tracks on programs such as ACID and ProTools helps drifting, is this true?

cheers fellas.
 
Your computer is plenty fast. It's the sound card's drivers holding you back.

First thing, since it's a soundblaster, you need to record at 48KHz/16-bit. This should help/correct the drift problem.

Something you can try is the free asio4all drivers here:
http://www.asio4all.com/

Make sure that after you install it, you setup your software to use ASIO4ALL instead of your other drivers.

See if those 2 things help.

Freezing tracks can help too. Does Sound Forge or Acid have some kind of performance/CPU meter? You can also press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open up the Task Manager and check there.
 
Everything works great now I can hardly hear much latency at all.
I guess it's worth just playing around with the ASIO drivers.

I'm using 48Khz/16-bit smaple rate with 32ms buffer.

Thanks man.
 
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