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Setup with latency issues Athalon 2600+ WinXP Audigy 2ZS So far my old Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 seems to work fine. So it's not just the budget sound card. But, for example these two tend to cause overdubs to lag: MultitrackStudio (I like the simplicity and the fine set of effects) Power Tracks...

[B]In a basic PC DAW, where does latency really get you? I'm a typical one-man act here in my garage studio. I've been trying demos of several new multitracking programs. Including most of the products mentioned on this BBS. My test is simple: to lay down 3 or 4 tracks, one at a time. I've...

Thanks, Nik, for saving me some time. That's what life is made of. For now, anyway.

If you want to burn a CDR for playing in a consumer CD player, do you get more play time if the tracks are mono? The data size of the such a file is half as big as a stereo wav file. But does that translate into putting twice as much material on a CD? Please remember that thing about there...

Thanks! And if the guru is still in the mood: Since you know about stripes and all that stuff, do you know if interleaving is still an issue with multiple audio tracks? When I began this DAW stuff 5 years ago, it was advised to not defrag the audio disk until a given project is bundled and...

Let's say I've got a pair of 120g SATA hard drives in my DAW. Is is better to set them up as a RAID pair, or dedicate the second one to audio files? Thanks, Wise People. Kev

NR Test--Great Idea That's a magnitudinal leap! I might have to take the same leap sooner than I thought. And thanks for the NR test idea. None of benchmarking programs I've used address DAW issues directly. Do you know of any?

Another AMD / Asus Vote How's your budget? I'm running an AMD XP 3000+ on an Asus board. There are always stunning deals on tech that's a year old or so. And products are generally more stable. Here's some test specs that show the success of the AMD 64 chips...

One more idea? I'd guess from your posts you tend to build your melodies from chord progressions. Which is common and useful practice. But to break the patterns, you might try creating a melody first. Practically, if notating it on paper isn't your method, just record it onto a cassette or...

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/rhyme.htm Try that link to download an ultra handy rhymer freebie (and you don't hvae to be on line to use it.) And while you're at it, for those few of you who haven't bumped into AnalogX.com already, there's a bunch of truly useful music and...

I've got this friend.... OK it's me. I need to do some recordings of my voice and acoustic guitar. I simply can't get the same "live" effect by recording the guitar and voice in seperate takes. I'm using a Studio Projects B-1 on my voice and an old AKG SD condenser on my guitar. Individually...

Yes and no. Yes, I have several wave editors. But I've been very conservative with the bundled effects, just because they tend too much like like "effects", at least the way I've tried using them. I don't have any 3rd party plugins. What would you recommendf? And thanks! 12K

OK, again you people are uniformly magnificent. I think I've seen a thread here about this some months ago, so please direct me to it if that's the best way to go. How do I get a decent stereo effect with just a few tracks -- I do them all one or two tracks and a time: Solo vocal...

Woops! I meant this to be in the recording techniques section, but if there are micing techniques that are critical here I'd be grateful. OK, again you people are uniformly magnificent. I think I've seen a thread here about this some months ago, so please direct me to it if that's the best way...

Yes, it will work. Should work just fine. I'm in a similar upgrade boat. PA9 works fine in one of my PCs with the same sort of setup. PA9 seems happy in XP and it will recognize the better sampling rates in newer cards. I'm still waiting for a powerful enough excuse to move to Sonar. You...

P.S. Don't sweat "clarity", most adults in their 60's+ only hear under 14 kHz anyway. (except for Harvey!:)) [/B] Well, I know a bit about that. Like shooting a mic's curve, that's some roll off to that limit, rather than a simple drop off. So some compensation is helpful I've...

Bottom Line, there are no Bottom Lines Thanks for the fascinating info, Harvey and Chess'. And I might just look into a collectable like that Varacoustic while I'm at it. It would also look great at a particular live show I do. FYI, if anyone cares, I've had fun building my gear with a...

Thanks! And what would the real Sinatra use?. Thanks for the help, everyone. The SM7's run $370-$450 from the major catalogers (except for a couple mystery suppliers on E-bay.) So I'll try a couple of the lesser creatures you've suggested and if they really let me down I'll have to squeeze my...

(Sorry if this posts twice, there was some glitch as I tried the first time). I've only got $300 or so. Need ideas for a studio mic. I'm doing a series of recordings for seniors featuring a vocalist with a nice silky baritone. I'm looking for a warm, fat sound, but with a bit of enhanced...