decharisma
Heps, I would like to plug my guitar and other gear to VS-20 and record my (crappy) performance into Sonar so that i could hear the output via Audiophile 2496 connected to my monitors. I get it to work somehow but the sound is distorted no matter how i adjust the latency. Ideas?
I tried this exact same idea with my VS-20 and Focusrite. I cabled the output from the VS-20 as a line input to the Focusrite and got very messy, latencied and "over-processed" sounds through the Sonar monitoring (although the VS-20 monitoring was clean) - is that like what you did and like what happened for you ?
I looked at my Preferences>Audio>Devices and found that I could not check the VS-20 input or output boxes while any of the respective Focusrite boxes were checked - so I could use either one device or the other, not both, it seems... is that what you found?
When I had unchecked all the Focusrite boxes, the VS-20 options then became checkable and I checked them.
Having done this, all the effects and functionality of the VS-20 were available and worked nice and clean and I could record and monitor the output through Sonar as reqiured.
I guess you just can't have more than one audio interface operating at once and you can't use the VS-20 signal processing without using it as an audio interface.
I'm no expert in this area so maybe I'm missing something...
What do you think?
Edit:
FWIW: According (loosely) to Craig Anderton (SONAR for Guitarists - great book so far, lots about the VS-20...), "ASIO will, except in a few cases [which he did not expand on loc cit], handle only one interface at once". WDM/KS will handle more than one interface at once. I tried this but the results were horrifying. I couldn't get a latency-buffer combination that worked so I've gone back to ASIO... might work in your setup, though...
post edited by guylemec - 2012/01/06 01:03:50