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stiletto107
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Hello, I am experiencing latency issues while recording in my home studio.
Here is my setup...
PC with XP Pro and a gig of ram.
PC has two hard-drives. Operating system on seperate hard-drive than my recording software. I have also turned off many services to try and reduce problems there.
I am using a FirePod as my external soundcard which is fire-wired to my PC.
I am using Cubase SE3. I am also using BFD for my drum plugin.
I have my Roland V-Drums connected via MIDI to my FirePod.
I have Cubase route my MIDI output to BFD so that I can use the BFD drum sounds.
Ok, so I usually start off by recording a scratch guitar track to a metronome.
Then maybe a bass guitar. Now, if I record the drums with just those two tracks on the screen, my latency problems are rare. But if I were to record a whole bunch of audio tracks and then record the MIDI drums, I always have latency. But not in the way that I would expect. The MIDI track is always AHEAD of the audio which was already recorded. So I would have to then try to nudge the MIDI track back to line up with the metronome.
Make sense? Having to take this step is a pain and is very time consuming.
I will mention that I tried just snapping the MIDI to a grid in the drum editor, but that makes the drums sound like they were played by a robot. It just does not sound natural.
In the control panel for my Presonus FirePod, there are two options that can be tweaked... The first option is basically the quality of the audio file and the other is labeled "Latency". I have had it set at 4. I have tried having it set at 8. But I don't know what it really refers to. Is it a buffer size and if so, what should I most likely set it to? Is it used to set an allowable latency in increments of milliseconds?
I appreciate any help, and sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.
Here is my setup...
PC with XP Pro and a gig of ram.
PC has two hard-drives. Operating system on seperate hard-drive than my recording software. I have also turned off many services to try and reduce problems there.
I am using a FirePod as my external soundcard which is fire-wired to my PC.
I am using Cubase SE3. I am also using BFD for my drum plugin.
I have my Roland V-Drums connected via MIDI to my FirePod.
I have Cubase route my MIDI output to BFD so that I can use the BFD drum sounds.
Ok, so I usually start off by recording a scratch guitar track to a metronome.
Then maybe a bass guitar. Now, if I record the drums with just those two tracks on the screen, my latency problems are rare. But if I were to record a whole bunch of audio tracks and then record the MIDI drums, I always have latency. But not in the way that I would expect. The MIDI track is always AHEAD of the audio which was already recorded. So I would have to then try to nudge the MIDI track back to line up with the metronome.
Make sense? Having to take this step is a pain and is very time consuming.
I will mention that I tried just snapping the MIDI to a grid in the drum editor, but that makes the drums sound like they were played by a robot. It just does not sound natural.
In the control panel for my Presonus FirePod, there are two options that can be tweaked... The first option is basically the quality of the audio file and the other is labeled "Latency". I have had it set at 4. I have tried having it set at 8. But I don't know what it really refers to. Is it a buffer size and if so, what should I most likely set it to? Is it used to set an allowable latency in increments of milliseconds?
I appreciate any help, and sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.