Cubase Off time?

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Hey, i just setup 5 mics and got it all setup and working and i noticed its always slightly off time.. so i double checked by recording a 5 track beat (simple 4/4 time with a metronome) and then recorded it again listening to the playback doing the exact same thing. then when i press play the time is really messed up.

- im not that great with the program... i hope its simple.
 
This is the result of a delay called 'latency.'

You're latency is too high; try lowering it a little. It's been a bit since I've used cubase, but what interface are you using?
 
I went to the control panel for my interface and set to lowest latency and its still doing it.
 
What are your system specs? Hopefully you are able to monitor from Cubase with your setup. If your computer is not fast enough to get latency down, then you will need to optimize it to hopefully be able to do so. I have never experienced any timing issues myself. Unless you have messed with some kind of delay compensation setting, Cubase is not the issue here. Nor is the interface. Unless of course, you have the wrong driver installed for the unit and your operating system.
 
The weird thing is my computer is amazing (built it myself for gaming) it can handle lots. It's not making sense to me.
Heres an example:
x = hi hat.
Recording # 1 - x-x-x-x-x-x
Recording # 2 - -x-x-x-x-x
 
I find this funny because I never even had the delay. Doesn't Cubase have a direct monitoring function?
 
Just to be nit picky, I don't like the Tascam drivers. I think they are heavy. ASIO4ALL is much better.
 
Oh, it seems it's not a monitoring problem. You are ALWAYS going to have a slight delay. How many ms is the delay though?
 
CrowsofFritz said:
Just to be nit picky, I don't like the Tascam drivers. I think they are heavy. ASIO4ALL is much better.
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I never could understand that. I can record vocal tracks on projects full of a slathering of VSTi's and IR verbs, and still get less than 10MS of latency, using the Tascam Drivers.

To each there own I suppose. I would say you should at least add 'In my experience, on my system, ASIO4ALL is much better'. Because it absolutely is not, nor should it be. IMO.

:D
 
jimmys69 said:
I never could understand that. I can record vocal tracks on projects full of a slathering of VSTi's and IR verbs, and still get less than 10MS of latency, using the Tascam Drivers.

To each there own I suppose. I would say you should at least add 'In my experience, on my system, ASIO4ALL is much better'. Because it absolutely is not, nor should it be. IMO.

:D
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Yes! On my system. On my crappy system. My Windows XP, Dell Optiplex 1.8ghx Celeron Processor, with ONE WHOLE GB of RAM. :D


I hate the thing! :mad:


I didn't pull the trigger on the iMac, but I will perhaps as a gift to myself around Christmas time. :D
 
goes 3 then 3.2 then 3.3 then 3.4 then 4. one recording is on 3.2 and the other is on 3.3
 
I'm not sure what you are saying here. Delay (latency) is generally spoken about in milliseconds. It sounds like you have actual measures or something out of sync. Not latency.

Maybe you should post a screenshot of what it is you are basing the timing issue on, so we can understand what it is that is happening.

You only need two more posts, to put up such a link. :)
 
Cubase should compensate for tracking delay as long as your hardware is reporting it's latency correctly.

But even then it's not always 100%, I checked mine and it was 3 samples off. How big is 3 samples? not really enough to care, but you can compensate for even that.

If I monitor through cubase, anything up to 4ms seems tolerable for anything but vocals (no idea why that is, but that's how it is). This tends to be a buffer setting of no more than 128 for tracking. I jack it back up again if I'm mixing though.

I'm sure I'm speaking greek though and I'm on OSX, so I'm not sure how relevent all the above info is.
 
Barlow said:
Hey, i just setup 5 mics and got it all setup and working and i noticed its always slightly off time.. so i double checked by recording a 5 track beat (simple 4/4 time with a metronome) and then recorded it again listening to the playback doing the exact same thing. then when i press play the time is really messed up.

- im not that great with the program... i hope its simple.
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Are you using the metronome in cubase? If you are using an external metronome, it will never be in sync with what you already recorded.
 
Unfortunately this is not a common problem. There has to be some goofy setting somewhere that is making this happen. But without being there, everyone is just guessing.

Try connecting an output to an input and recording the input. See if there is the same delay. That will help troubleshooting.
Have you tried the cubase forum?
 
So, these are all drum mics correct? Which track is which drum. It is hard to tell what is happening from just the pic. Did you record these tracks all at once, or are they overdubs?

Please export a sample mp3 of what that is above.

Also, if you are using the Cubase metronome, you would need to monitor from Cubase, and not the direct input of your interface. MIX knob on 1800 fully clockwise.
 
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