Audio recording

utter5 wrote on 5/10/2011, 9:20 PM

I am using Magix Music maker 17 with a PC using Windows7.   I have everyting dialed in, but I have hit a brick wall.  When I try record my guitar while listening to a generic beat I have placed in Track One, there is a short lag or pause between Track Two(guitar) and track on(drum beat) during playback.   I was previously told I have a latency problem and to check my hardware.  Well, I did that and I am pretty sure that my hardware is solid; I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro external sound card.  It is driving me frickin crazy.

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john-auvil wrote on 5/11/2011, 11:42 AM

It is latency... and pretty much all hardware has it.

 

How are you recording? (mic, amp  to soundcard, usb)

Is this electic or acoustic?

 

Buffers can sumetimes help but my suggestion is making sure you have the latest drivers for your recording sound card whether it is pro-gear or integrated, all hardware has a latency.

 

CBY_TLSE wrote on 5/11/2011, 12:56 PM

Hi,

 

I agree with John-auvil.

 

In my previous PC, I had an X-FI Extreme gamer, a not full music dedicated sound card, but using the same chipset than yours (I guess). I used the ASIO driver.

 

I made latency tests. I defined beats with Beatbox 2 on track one. I played this music and had a microphone in front of one of my speaker, at 40 cm. I recorded the sound played by track 1 on track 2 and I measured the distance between the corresponding beats. I got 50 ms of latency (you can choose to have a time scale with MMM and zoom in).

 

On my new PC with a Saffire PRO 24 DSP, an external sound card, fully music dedicated. I got 10 ms of latency with the same test.

 

Do you use ASIO driver?

 

Regards