recording/monitoring audio help!!!

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Fab4ever

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Hi.

In Sonar 2.0 XL, which I use with Delta 66/Omni Studio,all of a sudden when I'm recording audio I here a delay of about one second in my live signal. I have searched help and fiddled with settings inthe m-audio control panel to no avail...

The audio records intime, it just SOUNDS weird as I monitor what I'm recording.


Can anyone help?

Fab
 
Disable Input Monitoring (Options -> Audio).

As an alternative, if you wish to continue to use Input Monitoring, you can also try lowering your latency settings. If you can get below 5ms, you probably won't notice the delay, but you are likely to have pretty severe drop-out problems unless your computer has a lot of horsepower.
 
Thanks Dachay! I was hoping you'd be around. I did try disabling input monitoring - it didn't seem to help. But I will try it again as soon as I get home....

The weird thing is I"ve been recording audio flawlessly for weeks in Sonar under this setup.... then all of a sudden I get the one-second delay when monitoring my live signal (the instrument that's being recorded).

Is there anything else that could be causing this? I just don't understand why all of a sudden I could get this one-full-second delay.
 
Fab4ever said:

The weird thing is I"ve been recording audio flawlessly for weeks in Sonar under this setup.... then all of a sudden I get the one-second delay when monitoring my live signal (the instrument that's being recorded).

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This happened to me. Somehow, the input monitoring was enabled. I didnt do it, it did it itself. I disabled again and it has been fine.
 
Ditto. Me too.
Last time I recorded vocals - and I had latency all the way down to 5ms. It seemed like I was hearing the line that was being sung and the line that was being punched over even after the punch point and even though I was in overwrite mode (not sound on sound). The finished product sounded fine. I too have an M-Audio product (Delta -1010) and I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to have selected on input monitoring. There are so many choices. I just click around until it works.

And to make matters worse, one time this happened, I had a delay plug in on the aux buss. That can be distracting, too.
 
So does disabling input monitoring mean that I won't hear what I'm playing in the headphones while I'm tracking? Won't hear my voice when I'm singing (actually, a good idea.....)

Fab
 
So does disabling input monitoring mean that I won't hear what I'm playing in the headphones while I'm tracking?
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depends. . .

If you are using a mixer, there should be a headphone jack where you can monitor through your hardware.

Also, I believe the Delta control panel has a "monitor mix" setting that will allow you to hear the channel being recorded. (I monitor through my hardware, so I'm not exactly sure how this works - but you can probably figure out it with a little T&E).

What you won't be able to do is monitor *through* Sonar. So obviously any real-time effects being applied in Sonar will not be heard.
 
I have the Omni Studio, which definitely has headphone outs.... I don't care about hearing realtime effect while tracking.

I just want to be clear: I need to: 1. disable input monitoring in Sonar; 2. activate monitor mix setting in the Delta software.


Is there anything else?

And again, thanks for helping me out!!

Fab
 
1. Definitely, if you want to get rid of the echo.

2. I'm not familiar with the Omni Studio. Since it has headphone jacks, you may be able to monitor the input signal directly. That's essentially what I do using a Mackie mixer. Or perhaps someone more familiar with your equipment will come along to give you better instructions.

However, if you were previously recording flawlessly, you probably don't need to do anything more than disable input monitoring. Sounds like it just got enabled inadvertently somehow.

Good luck. And BTW, thanks for the feedback in the .mp3 clinic.
 
Of course!

Well, your advice worked. I had to un-select every driver for input monitoring, and it did the trick.

Thanks again!!!

Fab
 
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