ASIO4ALL recording problems

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Hi, I use Cubase SX3 and have recently changed to Vista Home Premium from XP and am having trouble with ASIO4ALL

When recording incoming audio, it is recording it at a much higher pitch so it sounds high and squeaky, it also seems to have a repeating echo on it.


I have tried with a mic and guitar with same results. Any ideas???
 
What settings are you recording at??

Sounds like you are recording at one sample rate and playing back at another....

Some POS gamer on-board soundcards are locked at 44.1khz or 48khz. You have to find out what yours is.

(ASIO4ALL is a great little hack but you are probably fighting a POS onboard soundcard with 40cents worth of chips in it...)
#1 Rule of Recording: You MUST replace the built-in soundcard.
Here's a good guide and tested suggestions: http://www.tweakheadz.com/soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm
 
It say's on my screen that I'm recording at 44, How can I check what my card is set up to record at?
 
I have found out my soundcard is a Conexant HD Audio Smart 221. It does support rates from 44.1 to 96 KHz.

I changed it to match what Cubase was recording at 44.1 KHz 24Bit, but nothing has improved.

I have noticed that as well as being high pitched, when a sound is played through a mic for example it is echoed once so you end up with 2 sounds.

Still stuck I'm afraid
 
Check your soundcard mixer app. It probably has an option to monitor whatever is being recorded. Try turning it off.

Are you using headphones??? Is the high squeaky noise and echo actually feedback??
 
No, it's definately not feedback, the sound that I am recording is actually pitched about an octave higher, making my voice sound as if i'm on helium with a single echo about half a second later.
 
On board sound cards are not suitable for recording.

Those noises are because of the fact that the computer cannot cope with it.
You need proper Asio drivers.

Recording at 16 bit might help and also Tweaking Vista for recording might help.

But the only real solution is to buy an audi interface, which is an external audio card specially for recording.

Cheers
Wim
 
The problem isn't with my soundcard even though it might be a not very good to put it politely.

The problem is when I use ASIO4ALL. When I switch to a different driver for example my default one, it records at the correct pitch with no echo, but has at least a 2 second latency which makes it impossible to play, monitor and record at the same time.
 
freosi said:
The problem isn't with my soundcard even though it might be a not very good to put it politely.

The problem is when I use ASIO4ALL. When I switch to a different driver for example my default one, it records at the correct pitch with no echo, but has at least a 2 second latency which makes it impossible to play, monitor and record at the same time.
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do you have a crakt version of cubase?? Because I've heard of this happening with crakcs.
 
I don't have a crakt copy but I believe my friend does who is having the same problem.
It worked fine with XP just not vista
Any advice for my friend on how to correct it?
 
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freosi said:
I don't have a crakt copy but I believe my friend does who is having the same problem.
It worked fine with XP just not vista
Any advice for my friend on how to correct it?
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Real subtle :rolleyes:
 
freosi said:
I don't have a crakt copy but I believe my friend does who is having the same problem.
It worked fine with XP just not vista
Any advice for my friend on how to correct it?
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There's no help for pirated software. This thread is closed.
 
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