erico317
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Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
Newbie question sorry.
I finally got my firepod. Well I tired recording with it. When I monitor what I'm play through the fire pod it works great. When I play back what I record, it's there with no drop outs, but it has a warble sound to it. Any ideas?
HP 1.6g
512k ram
120 g hard drive...
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
ERic
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stevegardner
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/18 21:00:08
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I am using a Firepod with Sonar 4.2. I had some difficulites initially, but not the kind you are experiencing. I did switch to the ASIO drivers and my problems are gone. Have you tried that? Also, make certain the latency settings on the Firepod control panel are in synch with the Sonar settings...
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erico317
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/18 21:02:38
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dumb question so forgive me, but where are the latency settings for Sonar? Firepod is at 44.1kHz Internal and 10.0 ms
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erico317
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/18 21:08:41
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I think I found it now... I'm not getting the warble anymore.. I switched to the ASIO driver, and my problem seems to be gone. But How do you determine the latency settings for Sonar? Is it options audio?
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stevegardner
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/18 21:23:16
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You can change the Firepod latency on the control panel...I think you could drop it down to about 6. Mine is at 3.0...In the Sonar audio options, there is a slider where you can adjust your latency. It is located in the same place where you changed your drivers out....
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erico317
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/19 09:14:15
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Thanks Steve!!!
Should Sonar and the Firepod have the same latency setting? I test recorded last night with the firepod on 10ms. I think the Sonar slider was on 2... Should both numbers be the same?
Thanks,
Eric
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stevegardner
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/19 09:35:10
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Hey Man! I would guess that out of the hundreds of Sonar users on this board that I know the absolute LEAST. But, I have a Firepod and Sonar and it is working. I just want you to know the level of expertise you are dealing with here....
Yeah, those latency numbers should match. After I responded to this yesterday, a thought crossed my mine. I think if you change the settings on the Firepod control panel that Sonar will adjust accordingly the next time you start the program. Either way, with the specs on your computer you gave yesterday you should try to drop your latency numbers down.
Try to see if Sonar reads the settings on the Firepod. If not, set the Firepod to 6.0 or even lower, then slide Sonar to meet that...
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joe b
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/19 10:20:00
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ORIGINAL: stevegardner
In the Sonar audio options, there is a slider where you can adjust your latency.
Yes and no. In general yes, but not when using ASIO (when you are in ASIO, the slider is greyed out). I think the only place to adjust ASIO latency is in the control panel for your sound card, i.e, the control panel for the Firepod.
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erico317
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/21 17:42:34
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More questions....
I recorded with my acoustic and had no problems. I tried to record the drums today and ran into some problems. I'm currently using the ASIO drivers as suggested.(I tried the other drivers listed as well and the ASIO worked the best) I'm getting a digital clip in the audio playback. I'm not clipping on any of the tracks. I'm well below the 0.0 db. I've also tried every latency setting. I'm still getting the clip.
This is how I'm set up... 7 mics coming in. I'm sending Firepod input 1 to track 1, input 2 to track 2, etc.... I'm sending all of the tracks in sonar to the master. From the master I'm sending it out to line out 1 and 2. From there I'm going to a amp and studio monitors.
I guess I'm wondering how everyone else is setting up. Where are you sending your output? How do you get your output to the studio monitors via the firepod? Also any ideas on the clipping?
Sorry for being the newbie...
Eric
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joe b
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/25 17:11:39
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Sorry for the delay in responding. Clipping: I ran into a similar problem a couple of months ago. It turned out that the signals from all the tracks were being "summed" in the master bus. I turned down each track that was routed into the master bus until the signal in the master bus was OK. Routing: Sorry, I'll have to leave this part for someone else.
post edited by joe b - 2005/05/25 17:15:32
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stevegardner
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/25 20:41:36
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I just saw your last question ERico. Are you using inputs one and two on the front of the Firepod? those are much hotter than one and two on the back. Try using the two on the back of the pod and the rest in the front...Sg
post edited by stevegardner - 2005/05/25 20:43:26
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erico317
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/05/26 14:33:24
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Well I've called Presonus tech support and worked with them... After trying every different option they had, I was told to try and hook up the firepod to another PC. I've already tried using 2 different hard drives. There was no change. The problem I'm having is that I'm getting a digital clip, or pop in audio playback. I've even gone as far as using Windows Media Player and using the Firepod as an over priced sound card. And it was still there. We hooked it up to a different PC and it seems to be working. But the PC that it is on, is not much better than the min requirements. So I'm basically out of luck with the PC I'm using. I even went as far as buying a firewire PCI card that they suggested. Still nothing. The PC works fine with everything else I do. Just not this. The old sound card doesn't give me these issues. But Presonus doesn't know what it could be.
So what are you guys using for a PC and the Firepod? I'm now looking at a HP Pentium 4 3.06 gHz 512K. It's using a ASUS mother board.
Thanks,
Eric
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Primus Productions
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RE: Sonar 3 and Pre Sonus firepod
2005/06/05 15:58:43
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i dont have any problems using SONAR 4... but i noticed that you have SONAR 3... that might make a difference... stevegardner and you have different versions of SONAR...
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