I think its called Latency... (Problem)

[ThaArtist]

Latency Problem

Ok I'm fairly new to computer recording and using hardware equiptment. With that said I just picked up the Mackie Onyx 400f and it works fantastic. I love it so far.

One problem. When I record in their software Mackie's Software Tracktion 2 I get a delayed response. Let me clearify. If I plug in a guitar, open up Tracktion and start playing its fine of course, I hear exactly what I'm playing when I play it. No reason why it wouldn't right. When I hit record I'm hearing a delay like a milisecond or second behind what I'm playing. I'm not sure if its recording at a delayed time or if its just playing it back at a delayed time. Either way that would make it pretty difficult to record hearing a delayed vocal, guitar, or whatever is being recorded.

I'm pretty sure thats called Latency right? And anyone know how to fix that?

I just registered at Mackies forums but they have to approve your account so until then I figured I'd ask here. Thanks a bunch everyone. Sorry if this sounds so newbie-ish.

-Joe

 

[ThaArtist]

Ok it must be something with the buffer rat in Tracktion because I dont get this problem in Adobe Audition.

Anyone use Tracktion?

Probably not.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I'm not familiar with that software, but the problem is a very common one amongst many first-time setups.

What you need to do it look in the help files/manual for your software to find where your setup screens are for your soundcard setup as far as recording and monitoring locations and set those properly.

What's probably happening is that you are currently set up to listen to a playback of the recording itself rather than just monitoring the inputs as you record. So what's happening is you are recording and then playing back the recording more or less simultaneously.

This is a digital version of the old 3-head tape decks that could be set to do the same thing, play back what was actually recorded to tape; there is always a delay. There it was because of the time it took for the tape to travel from the record head to the playback head. Here its because it takes some time to record data to disc and then read that data back off the disc again.

You need to switch your software settings around so that what you are listening to when you record is not an actul playback, but just a simple monitoring of what is going in.

G.

 

[Robert D]

What he said..... Oh, it's sometimes called hardware monitoring vs software monitoring. Other times it's input monitoring vs playback monitoring.

-RD

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Oh, it's sometimes called hardware monitoring vs software monitoring. Other times it's input monitoring vs playback monitoring.

And sometimes my vocabulary fails me first thing in the morning. Thanks for the mental reboot.

G.

 

[ThaArtist]

thanks

so none the less just messwith the settings of the program.... adobe audition works totally perfect in terms of this problem or not. I'll have to dig around at mackies website to see what i have to set in their software.