can anyone please tell me how to do this?

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i'm so new at this i squeak. before i go mayday send help.
i bought an audiophile 2496 and also "music creator 2003" from cakewalk. i have a mic with pre amp and effects boxes from analog days. i thought i'd start slow but not this slow. all i want to do is record live in and be able to hear the music that i'm recording into, along with the live in. my problem is that my live in lags really bad when i try this. i just can't figure out how to do this. duh. my system meets minimum requirements, i.e., 256 ram and 400. i can't seem to get the delta control panel set right or the music software/control panel/multimedia combination set right. any help will be tremendously greatly appreciated.

 

[DonF]

Welcome to the world of low-budget digital recording. You have now experienced latency first-hand.

The problem is that your computer/soundcard setup is not fast enough (few are) to simultaneously record and play back audio. You play along with previously recorded parts, and the soundcard driver compensates for the delay so that the software can properly align the new track with the old. But by the time the software sends the new signal back out to the sound card, some time (the latency delay) has passed. Few people, perhaps nobody, can maintain accurate musical timing under such circumstances.

You're in luck, however, because the Audiophile supports a "zero latency" monitoring feature. I know that it works, because I have an Audiophile, and I have used it successfully even on an old Pentium 200MMX. "Zero latency" means that you hear what's going into the AP with no noticable delay.

What you have to do is use the AP control panel to route the AP mixer output to the HW Out 1/2 (i.e., the RCA outputs on the AP). Then, you can use the mixer to adjust the levels of WavOut 1/2, which comes from your software, and HW In 1/2, which is connected to the AP's RCA inputs. This way, you're sending some of the input signal straight to the output without going through the computer first. Be sure to turn OFF any input monitoring setting in your software, or you'll hear an echo.

This should solve your problem. Now go make some music.

 

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[This should solve your problem. Now go make some music. [/B][/QUOTE]

thanks, i really appreciate it. you saved me from a cappella.