Oh dear... Cubase/Delta 66 latency probs, call the idiot police.

[Lopp]

Just picked up Cubase VST/32 5.0 after having used a mix of Cubasis, then Cakewalk PA, then Cubase 3.6, then CW PA again. I'm soo much happier now, except:

Last night I made some of my first legitimate attempts at recording some audio. Slapped some headphones on, loaded up a MIDI song, and mic'ed my Mesa/Boogie with a SM57 running through a Mackie 1402 insert and also monitoring through the 1402.

The latency was terrible. I could hardly play along with the song without blasting my synth and amp so I didn't hear the delay. ARRRGH!

I started messing with the latency settings, with the ASIO settings, with the Delta 66 settings. Still had nasty delay, even when not recording with the song.

I then muted the track. Still hearing the delay? I started pulling faders down on the Mackie. Still a delay! I pulled all the faders down... STILL A DELAY?

I looked up the channel strip and noticed the aux send was on, SENDING THE SIGNAL TO AN EFFECTS PROCESSOR USING DELAY!

Heh. I had forgotten that I jammed with some old band mates a week ago and set up the effects for the jam fest.

Now everything's running great.


Lopp

 

[tommyp]

You say you had issues with delay caused by...weeelll......messing up, but i've had some real issues with this.

I've just recently got into recording with my pc; and have been using a Creative SB Live with breakout box. I just line a Shure mic right into the box.

I was initially using the version of Cubasis VST that came bundled with the card - that was fine, but when I upgraded to Cubase VST32 5.0, I got hideous delays! Strangely, if i change the driver, I get *one* good take, then the delays come back, and I have to change driver again!

Anyone got any ideas?

(NB -- i use a 1GHz Athlon with 512Mb DDR; running Win98SE)

 

[maddyastor]

LATENCY SOLUTION EXPERIMENT?

I'M A NEWBIE HERE. JUST STARTED GETTING USED TO WORKING ON CUBASE 5.0 I DON'T KNOW IF WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHARE WILL WORK FOR EVERYONE, BUT...IT ABSOLUTELY ELIMINATED ALL LATENCY PROBLEMS FOR ME WITH MINIMAL WORK. UNDER "PANELS" TOOLBAR, USING THE "VST MIXER 1" I ENGAGED ALL PREVIOUSLY-RECORDED TRACK FADERS TO AN UPWARD POSITION (SO I COULD HEAR ALL TRACKS RECORDED UP TO THAT POINT), EXCEPT THE CHANNEL FADER THAT REPRESENTED THE NEXT TRACK I WAS ABOUT TO RECORD ON. BRING THAT FADER DOWN SO IT IS ZERO IN VOLUME. I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PERFECTLY HEAR MY SELF ON THE NEXT TRACK I RECORD WITHOUT THAT TERRIBLE LATENCY...AGAIN THIS MAY NOT WORK ON ALL SYSTEMS. LATENCY WITH CUBASE SEEMS TO BE AN ANNOYING PROBLEM FOR MANY OF US...PERHAPS MY TRICK WON'T WORK FOR EVERYONE, PERHAPS I JUST GOT LUCKY, BUT IT WORKS EVERY TIME FOR ME AND I AM THANKFUL.

------OTTO

 

[Alchemist3k]

I have the same setup with no latency.

Be sure to turn on ASIO direct Monitoring in Cubase.