Re:How to deal with latency?
2011/01/12 17:15:46
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Snyder,
Mike's is sound (pun intended) advice. If you can't get a new interface, there are a couple of tricks to get your latency down. The signal you are recording is coming out of the interface "live" and you are playing in sync w/ the pre-recorded track(s). However, your signal is delayed by the time it gets to SONAR, which means a large latency (a couple of milliseconds is ususally too small to matter).
Check w/ delay compensation. I think sonar has that, tho I've never used it.
Make sure that you have no effects that use look ahead - the LP mastering stuff, convolution reverb etc.
Save a version of the song that is stripped down so you can lower your latency - you might want to use a stereo mix version in a new project. Hopefully you can get the latency down enough and get a crackle free take.
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