Recording not in time

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I've been using a laptop to record my bands songs using mainly audio as opposed to midi. I've had no problem doing this. However when I tried to record some guitar last night, even though I played in time it didn't record in time. The guitar comes in about half a bar early and is out of time for the rest of the song, thought not always by half a bar, thus making it difficult to correct with editing.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
Thanks.
 
First off, what program are you using? What CPU? Specs? Etc.

Do you have Input Monitoring enabled? Try disabling it and see if that fixes things.
 
Is the timing off too? (Meaning does the track itself shift in tempo?)
 
A Toshiba laptop with 128mb RAM and a Celeron 933mhz chip.

I'm using Cakewalk Pro Audio 7.

Yes, the track itself shifts in tempo too. How do I enable/disable the things you said?

Thanks
 
Since you're using PA7, you don't have Input Monitoring so don't worry about it. ;)


If the tracks itself shift in tempo, then I'm guessing you're running alot of background-programs, OR your soundcard isn't meant to do multitrack-recordings (your clock source might be off).
 
The laptop has got a 15gb hard drive which is down to about 112 - 15% remaining on it. This i sthe lowest it's ever been. Could this affect it at all?
Also, since I last recorded I've installed a few plugins. Could they have any impact?

Thanks again.
 
It may have something to do, but I don't think that's the problem.


Maybe your harddrive is too slow, is it a 4200 RPM drive?
 
Did you run the wave profiler for your card? I had a similar problem a while back after installing a new sound card. Timing was all wrong until I reran the profile thingy.
 
Also try enabling full duplex on your sound card if you have that option.

:) Q.
 
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