Soundcard Recommendations, Latency poll.

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ChorazaiM said:
Does your INCA88 call up the ASIO panel (when you use ASIO instead of EWDM I mean)?
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Nope, I've contacted Audiotrak about that. It's a bug in the drivers (the only bug I've found), but you can just open the Control Panel yourself. :)


Teacher, as Porter said Direct Monitoring has nothing to do with Sonar or Input Monitoring. It's your soundcard. And most of them can do it. :)
 
moskus said:
Nope, I've contacted Audiotrak about that. It's a bug in the drivers (the only bug I've found), but you can just open the Control Panel yourself. :)
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Do you mean the same Audiotrak control panel you call up from the icon try (Where you set buffersize, signal rerouting, etc)? I thought perhaps ASIO had a different interface, but if it's the same, then no big deal I suppose :]
 
ChorazaiM said:
Do you mean the same Audiotrak control panel you call up from the icon try (Where you set buffersize, signal rerouting, etc)? I thought perhaps ASIO had a different interface, but if it's the same, then no big deal I suppose :]
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Yes, it's the same thing, so it's no big deal. Just ask any Delta user. :)
 
Jeyan said:
Finally a real useful thread, keep posting :)
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What are you talking about? We have only usefull threads in the Cakewalk forum...




:D
 
moskus said:
What are you talking about? We have only usefull threads in the Cakewalk forum...
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Yeah :) Specially "Hey moskus..." Thread

:D :D :D
 
tcdave,

I guess the question is now how many tracks you want to record at one time... I'm guessing it's only 2? Just remember 2 inputs is a 'stereo' track.

Other sound cards, depending on your budget, have up to 8-10 inputs. Also that card doesn't come with Phantom Power... just if you want to use a condenser mic that is.. however you can buy a small mixer or an pre-amp that has phantom power.

Porter
 
Porter said:
Also that card doesn't come with Phantom Power... just if you want to use a condenser mic that is.. however you can buy a small mixer or an pre-amp that has phantom power.
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I wouldn't consider that a "problem". Most soundcards with pre.amps have poor pre.amps and you should be looking for a mixer or a standalone pre.amp anyway... ;)

But I hear this card with pre.amps is great! :)
 
I have an old Yamaha soundcard.

Using the Mixing Latency slider in Guitar Tracks Pro, I can get the latency down to 10ms. However just below that it says that this is an Effective latency at 44Hz/stereo of 141ms. WTF does that mean?? That I have a crappy sound card?
 
Bulls Hit said:
I have an old Yamaha soundcard.

Using the Mixing Latency slider in Guitar Tracks Pro, I can get the latency down to 10ms. However just below that it says that this is an Effective latency at 44Hz/stereo of 141ms. WTF does that mean?? That I have a crappy sound card?
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Yepp... ;)

You have probably set your buffers (in playback queue) to 4 or 8 or something like that, right? Try set them to 2, and see if you can get it stable.
 
Ha. The damn thing dropped out instantaneously with 2. Seems stable on 4 though.

What's the deal with long latency anyway?

In the old Guitar Studio, you really needed low latency for real time mixing with the sliders, but with envelopes, that's not an issue any more.
 
Bulls Hit said:
What's the deal with long latency anyway?
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If you're using Input Monitoring and softsynths realtime, you need low, low latency. If you're mixing with a hardware control surface, then low latency is certainly a plus. ;)
 
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