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gcram2000
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Hi there! I'm new to cubase and this forum, so I appologise now if this question seems really ignorant or out forum of style!
I've just started to play around with Cubase 5 VST for recording guitar and mixing in drum beats and other virtual instruments.
My problem is that I need to apply effects to the guitar work through cubase, but in real time..i.e as I play, rather than upon the wave after I lay it down raw.
My set up is a guitar plugged into an amp, which is connected via line-out to the line-in on my PC sound card, a SoundBlaster 1024 Live! The PC is highish spec (256Mb RAM, 800 MHz AMD Athlon, 20 Gb HD).
So, I've figured out how to map the in-put to the correct channel on the mixer, but under un-figured circumstances, when the guitar is played the sound emmits immediately from the speakers, but this is followed a fraction of a second later by a single echo!
Is this a so-called 'latency' problem?!
Any effect applied to the master channel is applied to the second-sound signal...i.e. with master set on phaser, any guitar sound comes out raw first then a fraction of a second later comes out with phaser!
Also, if the master volume is turned down, the input channel volume remains uneffected, but the echo goes!
The master volume only seems to have an effect on wav files imported into cubase (eg a drum loop).
I'm sorry if this all sounds completely naive! The thing is I just know cubase has the virsatility I need.....from what I've heard at least, so it would be extremely useful if anyone could shed light on what might be causing this problem!!!!
If there's anything else you need to know about my setup or the effects/uneffects of any tweaking I may have forgotted to mention just let me know!
I've just started to play around with Cubase 5 VST for recording guitar and mixing in drum beats and other virtual instruments.
My problem is that I need to apply effects to the guitar work through cubase, but in real time..i.e as I play, rather than upon the wave after I lay it down raw.
My set up is a guitar plugged into an amp, which is connected via line-out to the line-in on my PC sound card, a SoundBlaster 1024 Live! The PC is highish spec (256Mb RAM, 800 MHz AMD Athlon, 20 Gb HD).
So, I've figured out how to map the in-put to the correct channel on the mixer, but under un-figured circumstances, when the guitar is played the sound emmits immediately from the speakers, but this is followed a fraction of a second later by a single echo!
Is this a so-called 'latency' problem?!
Any effect applied to the master channel is applied to the second-sound signal...i.e. with master set on phaser, any guitar sound comes out raw first then a fraction of a second later comes out with phaser!
Also, if the master volume is turned down, the input channel volume remains uneffected, but the echo goes!
The master volume only seems to have an effect on wav files imported into cubase (eg a drum loop).
I'm sorry if this all sounds completely naive! The thing is I just know cubase has the virsatility I need.....from what I've heard at least, so it would be extremely useful if anyone could shed light on what might be causing this problem!!!!
If there's anything else you need to know about my setup or the effects/uneffects of any tweaking I may have forgotted to mention just let me know!