Sonar With Multi Cards

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I am currently using Sonar with 3 sound cards.
I am using a PIII 500 MHZ 384 MB WIN98SE SONAR 2.0 and a 18 GB Western Digital Expert Hard Drive.
Sound Cards: SB PCI512, SBPCI128, CM7836??

1st ?
I cannot hear any monitoring during recording if I use any card other than the SBPCI512(My Primary Sound Card). Is there a way to make Sonar play all tracks through the SBPCI512 during recording even though you are recording a different card?


2nd ?
When I am recording I get a loud pop every 20-25 secs. It seems as though I am filling up a buffer somewhere. This Happens even if I am only using the SB PCI512 alone. Any Ideas?

The_Todd_Man
 
Todd Boyle said:
Is there a way to make Sonar play all tracks through the SBPCI512 during recording even though you are recording a different card?
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You should be able to do this simply by setting your ins and outs properly.

Go to the I/O tab in Track View. Set the "In" for the Track you are recording to the card you want to record through, then set the Outs for all your tracks to the card you want to playback through.

Don't know if this might possibly give you syncronization problems or not. Try it and you'll find out quickly enough.
 
BTW, should I have asked why you have 3 "entry level" cards in the computer? It doesn't seem to me that you are gaining anything from all those cards. Why don't you just dump two of them?
 
A really easy way to get 6 track digital recording on a budget. I am new to using a computer for recording but have been playing music and recording for years.

Plus I'm a computer engineer and can usually find these things really cheap.


The_Todd_Man
 
Todd Boyle said:
A really easy way to get 6 track digital recording on a budget. I am new to using a computer for recording but have been playing music and recording for years.

Plus I'm a computer engineer and can usually find these things really cheap.


The_Todd_Man
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As a computer engineer, you should know better.:p

Each card has its own clock crystal to keep timing to sample the audio 44,100 times a second.

Unless you have a way to sync all those clocks together on each card, tracks from each card will slowly drift apart from tracks on another card while recording and when you eventually play it back.

Cheap consumer level cards like SB's have no way of syncing to an master clock source. You need to either buy a multi input card or find a stereo card that can sync to a master clock
 
But the engineer in me wanted the challenge of making all three work.... ;)


Well I have given up on that dream.....

Weird though.... I am now only using the PCI512 and am experiencing latency. This was not happening with 3 cards. Any
Ideas?
 
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