Why is this happening?

[guitar ed]

I'm trying out Cubase SX. I have no problem getting everything running, and I've imported a MIDI file of bass and drums from my next big hit. I can play the MIDI tracks, record my guitar part, and everything seems fine. But when I play back the tracks, the audio part is way behind the MIDI. I've searched this forum, and I see this mentioned quite a bit, but I never see an answer with a solution. I've been thru the manual, and I've looked in other forums. Does this have anything to with hard drive speed? I don't monitor the input, so I don't think that latency settings are the main culprit. If I record a track @ 87bpm, it should play back @ 87bpm. Does anyone know what this is all about, or can you point me to the section of the manual that can help me? I really like this program as far as ergonomics and such, but I do a ton of MIDI/Audio recording, and if I can't get things to line up, this isn't going to work for me. I'm using a PIII 600, 194 megs RAM, and I have 2 10-gig HD's, and they're both 5400 rpm. My soundcard is a SB Live Value. Thanks in advance.

Ed

 

[jazzmaster]

hi,

the sblive card (and the audigy family as well) run natively at 48 khz. You should check if in audio setup you selected 48 khz.

If not you will have sloppy (unusable) sync between midi/ audio (and even between audio tracks).

hope this helps

 

[guitar ed]

Thanks, Jazz. That wasn't exactly the problem, but it got me into the place I needed to be. I have a SB Live, and I needed to be using the ASIO Full Duplex driver. I was trying to use ASIO Multimedia, and after I made the switch, everything is right on time. Now I'm really starting to reach for my wallet!! Thanks for your help.
Ed

 

[bean 123]

how did you change to ASIO Full Duplex?....I keep getting these
messages that stop the track from recording that say"Audio engine error, ASIO went out of synch..." is this what you had?
Any help would be SO appreciated!! I'm totally lost!!