Vocal Effects and general questions about Sonar LE

When you right-click in an audio track's effects (FX) bin, what effects are listed?

Click on the "Cakewalk" tab and you'll find a vast number of useful effects for vocals, guitar, and more. Just click on the effect's name and adjust it to your liking. In addition, you can find a lot of useful VST effects on the internet.

  Would anyone know why I have delay when recording using Sonar LE. I use an M-Audio I'll record a basic guitar track, then I'll record on another track trying to play in time with the first guitar, it sounds fine while recording but when I finished recording it's off. I've tried increasing the buffer size to faster but it didn't seem to improve it by much. Also I'm fairly certain this is sonar issue as I don't have this problem using Mixcraft 6.0. Chris.

The sampling rate and bit depth in SONAR and the M-Audio have to match. I believe SONAR defaults to 44,100 Hz @ 16-bit. Check the M-Audio's settings and make sure they are the same as SONAR. Or change SONAR's settings to match the Fast Track's.
Make sure you have the latest drivers for the Fast Track for your operating system. You can find those at the M-Audio web site.
Use the ASIO driver mode, too.

In SONAR LE before X1 LE, you'll find the audio settings under Options>Audio.
In X1 LE, you'll find the same settings by clicking P (preferences) on the computer keyboard.
ASIO may not work now if you didn't download and install the latest driver updates. M-Audio's drivers are usually pretty good.
If you've ever used the generic ASIO4All driver, you need to remove that from the computer before installing M-Audio's ASIO driver.
MME is the oldest, slowest, least-efficient driver there is. You were using that when you had the USB mic? Sorry if I'm confusing you with someone else.
By the way, what's your operating system and is it a 32-bit or 64-bit OS?
 
I've never used anything but Cakewalk software, so I can't say whether something else is better or on par with SONAR. It works for me.
My music computer is running Windows XP SP 3 32-bit.
I've read here that SONAR is a little more complex to set up than other DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) by others who have tried them.
 
You don't need another sound card; the Fast Track will be your new sound card once everything is sorted out.

I'm having problems with when using ASIO the driver again.
Is the fast track meant ot be able to use the ASIO drivers?
Evertime I use it it will not play sound or record properly it seems to work ok using the MME driver mode but I still notice delay.
I have the most updated drivers for the M-Audio Fast track interface I'm using.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm using my the interface as the system default for all sound for playback ect.

Chris.

Chris Grant:
EDIT: Got ASIO working! I just hadn't selected the right drivers after selecting ASIO mode.
I'm using Windows 7 64bit to answer your last question.

ASIO is the driver, so what drivers had you not selected? Oh, you must mean the in/out drivers box? You have  Fast Track as the system default (that means in Windows?), but is it also selected as the record and playback timing master in SONAR?

The fact that it's working in  MME makes me suspect another soundcard (the integrated one?) is active, because ASIO only suppports one soundcard at a time.

After a restart of my comp the asio driver is working at the moment.
But it's most likely going to stop working again.

One thing to note is when I change the volume in the main volume slider on windows 7 it doesn't change the volume of the playback in Sonar LE when on ASIO driver mode even though my M-audio is set to default playback device.

But in MME when I change the volume in windows 7 it effects the volume in sonar LE.

Will MME be ok to use?
Asio doesn't seem to be working very well for a long period of time.

EDIT: Apparantly you have to use your soundcard (on the pc) as the default playback device otherwise ASIO will stop working in the recording program. http://forums.m-audio.com/showthread.php?21810-ASIO-Drivers-for-Fast-Track-Pro
That makes sense as I have my default playback device as m-audio fast track.
I guess it means I can't use the internet or other applications to play along to and record though which sucks.
 

57Gregy


What is "Blackmagic Audio"?
 
MME works fine, as long as you don't mind the huge delay while recording. And don't have a lot of tracks playing. Or have several soft synths and/or audio effects running at once.

Blackmagic audio is a capture card I don't use that.
Yeah I really hate the delay on MME haha.
I have the ASIO working but it is a tad annoying how I can't use other applications at the same time itunes ect to play and record at the same time.

57Gregy

Chris Grant

57Gregy


What is "Blackmagic Audio"?
 
MME works fine, as long as you don't mind the huge delay while recording. And don't have a lot of tracks playing. Or have several soft synths and/or audio effects running at once.

Blackmagic audio is a capture card I don't use that.
Yeah I really hate the delay on MME haha.
I have the ASIO working but it is a tad annoying how I can't use other applications at the same time itunes ect to play and record at the same time.

Well, since it's showing up in your Driver Output list, you are using that. Apparently it uses ASIO drivers, too, and is messing up your system.
Have you ever run the Wave Profiler? It should have run the first time you opened SONAR. If everything is connected and on, it should have picked up the Fast Track. I don't even see it on the list, and there are no input drivers at all.
In Options>Audio, what is listed and selected for Recording Timing Master and Playback Timing Master?

Yeah I've run the wave profiler before it's not showing it on the list because I had the m-audio set to default playback device on w7 which messed up all the settings after a restart and assigning my comp sound card as default playback device the drivers in sonar are showing up agian.
See here


Is this latency time good?