Software to record effects on the fly?

[dreamache]

I've looked through a lot of threads and I couldn't find an answer to my question.

I want a piece of software that will both apply a specified effect while playing (so I can actually hear how it'll sound) - AND record it.

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card, and I'm hooking the guitar up through the mic port.

The sound card comes with this "EAX Console" which has some effects, but it filters every piece of sound coming through the speakers, and any recording software won't record the actual effect, only the normal guitar sound.

What can do what I want? Sonic Foundry? Cubase? etc?

Thanks.

 

[manning1]

what sort of effect are you after.??
i'm a puter engineer and with respect i tend to record either dry or with outboard effect going into the sound card.
as many will tell you the audigy is a gaming card rather than a pro
recording sound card.
with respect imho its going to need much more powerfull computer architecture to come to the market and do what i have a suspicion you want to do. if i record dry i normally add the effects after having recorded,
and trying different approaches and see how they fit with the rest of the mix. ideally it would be nice to have an environment where say one is recording a complete band to seperate tracks (eg 16) with in real time all 16 tracks having some sort of processing done in real time.
but as far as i know, without using outboard devices this is still not reality
as far as i know. the PC architecture doesnt have the "grunt" to do this yet - if this is your idea.

 

[barry9]

Record / Monitor Realtime Effects?

Are you wanting to hear the effects live while you play, and then have the effects as a part of your exported mix? I'm using an Audiophile 2496 w/ Cubase and VST effects can be monitored in realtime - I think they may cut out during the actual 'recording' process, but then come back during playback (since it's really only recording the dry sound, then applying the effect to the audio) but this should be good enough to get a feel for the effect and then get it in your recording. Once the track is set to use the effect, it will be included in any exports of your project.

Also, I'm not sure what parts of the process are related to the soundcard or the software, can someone else clarify that for me? Also - I'm not sure if not hearing the effect during recording is a normal thing or if it's due to my settings / setup.

hope this helps!

-b

 

[Bulls Hit]

What you want to do is called input monitoring.

All modern recording s/w eg Sonar, Guitar Tracks, Cubase etc. can do this.

You need to get your latency down as low as possible, less than say 5ms otherwise there'll be a noticable delay between what you play and what you hear