ASIO4ALL V2 Driver Significantly slows the entire track when recording vocals

cmnoscared wrote on 3/23/2015, 4:20 PM

Hi all,

Recently I downloaded an additional driver (ASIO4ALL V2) to use specifically for Magix Music Maker 2015. The reason for this was based on Magix supports suggestion that it would stopped the playback from being so glitchy especially when recording vocals on top of a track. Once installed the driver has so far fixed the glitching issue but now causes the entire track slow by at least 85% when using an external mic to record vocals. When you play back the track it sounds normal and so do the lyrics but you obvioulsy cannot record vocals for an actual speed track when the song is playing at a fraction of the speed. Any suggestions on why this is happening?

Thanks,

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browj2 wrote on 3/24/2015, 1:53 PM

Hi,

First of all, jargon. By glitchy, you mean latency. That is the delay between the time an event occurs, like pressing a key on the keyboard or saying something, and when you hear it in the monitor. ASIO4All helps reduce this to an imperceptable level.

How is your mic attached, to the mic input on your computer or USB?
If USB, is the mic directly attached to the USB or is it passing through an external interface?
How are you monitoring the sound?
Did you inadvertently change the BPM or your song? I doubt very much that ASIO4All will cause the track to slow down, at least this has not happened to me.
Do you have a lot of other tracks that are playing back when you record? With effects?
Can you post some screen shots of your arranger, the program settings parameters on the Audio/Midi tab page, and also the recording parameter screen?

baconbroth wrote on 3/24/2015, 8:22 PM

Ahhh yes, Increase your ASIO buffer size to something like 1024 samples located at Program Settings/Audio/Advanced...Also, changing from Dat to Super CD may do the trick. I had my other tracks speed up and when I made that change it was fine. And I also find that when I close the program I must toggle those setting againg to get it right...Oh well..still playing with it to see if there is a fix. Hope that helps.

baconbroth wrote on 3/27/2015, 2:10 PM

Well, seems that I can't get past the shortfall with Magix even after manipulating every setting I can think of so that the erroneous BPM corruption of existing tracks does not occur when attempting to record vocals in ASIO mode... So, I've begun testing Reaper and it works flawlessly with ASIO drivers. Maybe Magix may want to look at how they do it...Thanks.