help please?

[flash2ace]

i have sonar 1.01 i believe and im wondering is there anyway to patch the effects so that you can here them well you play for example the distortion. ive been playing everything clean and then adding the effects but it would be alot easier to play if i could here the distortion any help would be greatly apreciated thanks.

 

[alibish]

What you need is to turn on input monitoring. There's lots of detail in the manual, pages 4-18 to 4-22.

Basically, do the following:

1. Choose the Options-Audio menu, select the Input Monitoring tab, and highlight the sound card(s) you want to enable monitoring on. Click OK.

2. Make sure the Audio Engine button on theTransport toolbar is "pressed"

3. Insert the effects you want to play with in the track you're recording on - make sure the input and output cards are the same for this track

4. Play away!

NB It's worth starting with your speakers/headphones turned pretty low, in case you get feedback problems.

Also, you can't use the "overwrite" recording mode with Input Monitoring.

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However, unless you have a powerful PC and a decent soundcard (with good WDM drivers), your latency will be too high to let you play comfortably.

Personally I find 5-10ms latency is just about OK for singing or playing keyboards, but guitar really needs latency below 2ms. You may find you can put up with higher latencies, but I find the slight "echo" very off-putting.

Hope this helps

Alastair

 

[flash2ace]

thanks i gott it to work but im getting a slight delay between guitar and revalver, i muted the line in but theres quite a delay does anyone know how to fix this. and one more weird thing my revalver doesnt show up under edit add effects i cant find it unless i patch it in real time and right click then it shows up has this happened to anyone else? anyone know where it stores it. thanks again.

 

[participant]

thanks i gott it to work but im getting a slight delay between guitar and revalver, i muted the line in but theres quite a delay does anyone know how to fix this.

flash,

this is what alibish described as "latency". It's a fact of life with DAW based recording Unless your FX come from outside the computer, or you can offload the processing onto some kind of plug-in card like the UAD-1, you'll find you'll have latency problems when input monitoring. BTW, this question might've gone better in either the recording techniques or Cakewalk forums. FYI.


Chad