N-Tracks and Audio Buddy questions

[smalltowner]

Hi again all you smart types! Today I downloaded the Share Ware version of N-Tracks and I love it! I have entered the digital revolution! But I seem to be having some problems. N-Tracks keeps freezing up after I record and play back a few tracks. Is this a computer system resource problem?

The other problem is that I am trying to record my vocals and my Electric acoustic Guitar through the Audio Buddy at the same time. But it will not seem to record both. It has two inputs. (I have a split line running from the back of the Audio buddie from both outputs which has a single input into the sound card line in).

Here is a list of my Equipment:

Audio Buddy Pre Amp
Dell PC Pentium III
13 Gig Hard drive
128 MGB RAM
450 Mghz processor
(It says 48% of system resources are Free)

Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card (Here are its specs
- Record and play crystal-clear audio with high-resolution 18-bit converters
at up to 48 KHz.
- Microphone input supports dynamic or condenser mics.
- Stereo line input.
- Stereo line output with headphone driver.
- MPU-401 UART-compatible MIDI interface for attaching external MIDI gear.
- Optional S/PDIF interface.
- Speed-compensated joystick interface supports analog and digital joysticks.
- Stereo CD audio connectors let you play standard audio CDs using your PC's
CD-ROM drive.
- State-of the-art PCI bus master interface for transferring stereo audio at
blazing speed.
- Modem Audio Input for connecting audio-enabled modem signals.
- Add an optional synthesizer module for enhanced MIDI playback.
- Aux input for connecting DVD or other audio source.
- 320-voice wavetable synthesis with 4 MB instrument samples using PC RAM.
- Aureal A3D 2.0 positional audio.
- Hardware full-duplex provides high-resolution full-bandwidth simultaneous
record/playback.
- Supports high-fidelity Internet phone software.



Sorry about the length of this post, but I wanted to accurately describe my situation! Thanks again in advance for your valuable time and insight!

 

[Gidge]

first, make sure the plug that you have going into the soundcard is a stereo plug.....

then, go into the settings tab of the recording vu and select stereo-2 tracks as your channel path....this will record your two channels from the audio buddy to 2 separate tracks....

as far as the freezing, it could be many things...

IRQ issue
driver issue
hardware incompatability
buffer settings

 

[TimOBrien]

Could be a resource problem or it could be a setup problem.

Did you look in the Preferences (Control-P) and click on the "Wave Devices" button? Set it on a standard MME audio driver to start. Then you can click on the "Buffering" button --- start with these on heavy buffering and then you can tweak them down as you find out how N-Track will perform with your system.

You will need to select all the inputs you wish to record from.

N-Track does require you to work a little bit to get it tweaked to your system to determine which setting will work right for you (you have the power of messing with the settings but also gives you the responsibility to get them set up right for your system.)

You should be able to do a lot with your system; I'm only running a PII-450mHz Gateway and I've gotten over 30 tracks going with N-Track. Welcome to the N-track community.

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

With Gidge and Tim in your corner... you shouldn't have any problems.

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