mark5656
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Prob with guitar bieng late
HI, i got music creator 5 a few weeks ago, and a usb guitar cord. but whenever i try to play it on the program its late by about 2 seconds.... is there a playing difference in the settings or what can i do to make it precisly on note?
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Robomusic
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 02:55:31
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It is called latency, and you need to use faster drivers for the audio. The USB cord may not have fast enough driver capability.
Are you using MME drivers for MC5? If so what are the settings for the latency slider?
Does the USB cord have ASIO drivers? If not maybe google ASIO4All drivers on the net and install.
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 07:48:39
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Usually those USB cord things are not ideal for working with audio like you are trying to do.
You can experiment with the drivers as Rob suggests, but ultimately, plugging straight in to the computer's built in audio card would probably be better, better still would be a dedicated audio/midi interface that uses ASIO drivers.
What OS are you running? If you have W7, be sure to run MC5 in the 32 bit mode. It has problems at 64bit.
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 11:37:31
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Right. You will have terrible latency when using MME driver mode (the oldest, slowest, least efficient driver), and most of those USB guitar cords and USB microphones require the use of MME. If you can return the thing where you got it from and exchange it for a USB audio interface with a guitar input and a mic input, you'll have a better recording experience. Find any post by Beagle and click the link to his personal web site; he has a list of good audio interfaces there. Edit: why do they put these keyboard keys so close together?
post edited by 57Gregy - 2011/03/29 17:35:03
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Carl I.
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 12:47:04
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It seems there should be a giant banner on the top of this forum that screams out "LATENCY, WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOUR RECORDINGS?" 
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 13:35:20
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uhhhh. no!
If they did, we'd have to get a life....
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 13:50:41
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LOL! Ha, true. This does seem to be a HUGE topic. I also must admit that I fell into the latency trap, even though I had read most of these threads. It's just one of those things that you don't think will happen to you, and when it does, you are full of denial.
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 13:51:15
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I thought that was a river in Egypt?
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mark5656
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 18:49:01
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im not sure what kind of cord it is, i just know its a first act product. i got it here. and it included music creator 5. anyways, how would you edit the latency drivers?
post edited by mark5656 - 2011/03/29 18:55:46
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57Gregy
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 21:09:10
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Options>Audio>slide the Latency slider to the 'Fast' side. Going too far will cause glitches, pops, static-sounding noise or outright audio dropout. Try to find a setting where you don't have a lot of latency and you don't hear any bad noises.
I'm not optimistic, though.
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mark5656
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/29 21:29:06
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Thanks! it worked. i was about to kill myself over this 
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/30 07:46:21
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No need to do that..... Mc5 is a good platform, I'm thinking you probably got the LE version... ? Have fun... got questions? come back and visit.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2011/03/30 07:47:26
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/03/31 17:41:03
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Kill yourself? Really! Aw i know he was kidding, but heck kill other people at least you live to regret it!
Nah don't kill anyone if you do they bring back the 60's and we'll have a whole new crop of hippies around here!
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mark5656
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/04/03 02:50:49
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heh, hippies  but yeah i have the LE version......
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Re:Prob with guitar bieng late
2011/04/03 03:13:44
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I use a UA-G1 and it's not too bad. Best I can get is 10ms delay which is doable. Once the track is completed, just "nudge" the audio up (to the left) just a hair and it will be perfect sync wise.
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