Aligning vocals in Cubase

[abibatou]

Hi,

I am very new to cubase, infact i'm new to the whole home recording thing so please bear with me, basically I am constantly having issues with latency when recording vocals over an instrumental track in cubase. I use an Alesis multimix 8 usb to connect the mic and usually the first time I record its ok but then anytime I go to do another take or put a second vocal track over the first the latency starts and gets worse and worse so I have been shutting cubase down and re-opening the project just to do another take, but I have now realised that mabe it would be easier to just re-align the vocals by a few milliseconds so they fall in time with the instrumental. But after looking everywhere i cannot seem to find how to do this. When I drag them at the moment they move too far so they go more out of time. Does anyone know how I can move them only milliseconds backwards?

Thanks

Abi

 

[Scorge]

Hey Abi,

Sounds like your having a problem with the snap tool. Cubase automatically assigns keyboard hotkey J to enable/disable snapping.
Or you can just click on the button in the top center part of your cubase window that looks like this >|< When the box surrounding it is blue that means you have snap enabled and when it is grey that means that you have snap disabled.
Snapping basically means that your cursor (or whatever you assign to be snapped) will snap to every quantize type you set a long your "bars & beats" to. Ex: 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/8 , 1/16 (the basic timing of your notes).
When snap is disabled you should have no trouble at all moving the selected clip anywhere you want a long the timeline.

Hope this helps,

- Zac