Delta 44, SB Audigy and CW Guitar Tracks - Help!

[changewand]

I am trying to do the following:

- run a guitar/bass through the delta 44
- record tracks with cakewalk guitar tracks
- listening to what i am playing through computer speakers connected to SB Audigy

I have the first two parts working, but I am unable to monitor the guitar in realtime through the audigy card. Cakewalk's help file says that this can be done by running a monitor mix through one of the aux busses, but there are no further instructions on how to do this, and their tech support couldn't even figure out what I was asking!

Anyone know how to do this? seems pretty simple to me, although perhaps beyond the capabilities of the current software...

 

[James Argo]

What Cakewalk ? HS ? SONAR ? What driver for Sound card ? What OS ? PC Spec ? But generaly if you record some audio track in one card and do the real time monitoring using other card, it will generaly give you big latency problem. The signal will be routing through your Delta use some driver, then be recorded, and routed to your Audigy use a different driver... Your PC should do hard horse working on it... Try use same card for recording & real time monitoring.

 

[Pinky]

Check the mixer to be sure the line-in on the audigy is not muted or the volume turned down (as obvious as this seems, I've made the same mistake, be sure you're actually going through the line-in / input on the actual sonud card )...

I assume it's recording alright, just not able to hear it. If it's not recording, you might need to set the line-in to record in the mixer as well.

 

[changewand]

[B
]What Cakewalk ? * Guitar Tracks 2.0
What driver for Sound card ? * 5.0.27
What OS ? * win2k
PC Spec ? dell XPS T800r
(PIII800, 784MB RAM, 40GB SCSI drive)

But generaly if you record some audio track in one card and do the real time monitoring using other card, it will generaly give you big latency problem. The signal will be routing through your Delta use some driver, then be recorded, and routed to your Audigy use a different driver... Your PC should do hard horse working on it... Try use same card for recording & real time monitoring. [/B]

You are right about the latency...I guess I'll just pick up some adaptors and try it that way

 

[grahawk]

Often this can be solved by checking your audio options. Go to Options - Audio - advanced tab and make sure simultaneous record/playback is ticked.

 

[Paul881]

IMHO Guitar is not best recorded thru the delta 44. I still prefer guitar> amp> mic> delta 44> phones as a recording/monitoring method.

U need to check simultaneous record playback on the mixer options as Pinky suggested.

 

[AlChuck]

OK, the guitar comes into the Delta 44 and you are recording...

How does it get to the Audigy? Are you trying to listen to the data stream being recorded from the Delta through the Audigy at the same time?

That can't be done. The cards have no physical connection between them. Once recorded, the audio can be played by either card, but you can't hear what's running into one card's audio stream through the other.

And why would you want to be doing this in the first place? Why not listen to what's going into the Delta's inputs?

 

[Paul881]

AlChuck is right, you have to physically connect the two cards together. Output from one to input of the other. Or both outputs into a small mixer and then into the speakers/phones.

I have a similar set up to you and sometimes take an out put from my Delta 66 omni to my S/blaster Platignum Live! and monitor midi and audio in the s/blaster. If I'm not using midi, then my omni gets the phones/system speakers.