Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE

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2011/03/19 10:43:15 (permalink)

Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE

Dear all,

THis may have been discussed before, but none of the Forum info that I have seen and used so far helped me.

I am trying to record music from ROLAND RD-300GX to my HP laptop (XP, 2 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM) via line-in using SoundBlaster Audigy soundcard connected via PCMCIA.

The sound that comes out of the laptop when I hit a Roland keyboard key is very delayed, so is the recording.

I have tried changing the driver settings to ASIO, WDM, MME - nothing helps.

Is there anything you can help me with?

Grateful in advance,
Vitaly
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    Kalle Rantaaho
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    Re:Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE 2011/03/19 13:21:13 (permalink)
    Welcome to the forum!

    Have you made sure in the Options-dialogue that SONAR is using the Audigy and not the integrated chip? Make sure only Audigy is selected.

    What is your latency set to? I don't dare to say how low your gear could go.

    I'm not at all sure that the Audigy is capable of the job via PCMCIA, because the SoundPlasters tend to have problems also as internal cards as well as with FW etc. DAW-work is not their strongpoint.

    Make also sure that the SONAR project and Audigy are set to same sample rate. SBs usually default to 48 Khz. Are the ASIO drivers downloaded from Creatives site or are you talking about ASIO4ALL, which isn't actually ASIO at all? IIRC SBs work better with other than ASIO, but I'm not sure.

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    Vitality
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    Re:Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE 2011/03/19 14:21:44 (permalink)
    Dear Kalle

    Thanks for a warm welcome!

    Well, I have a number of questions again, as I am only starting to use Sonar.

    Have you made sure in the Options-dialogue that SONAR is using the Audigy and not the integrated chip? Make sure only Audigy is selected.

    Yes, I have un-checked the boxes of the integrated SoundMax, and made sure Audigy is everywhere.

    1) What is your latency set to? I don't dare to say how low your gear could go.

    Where do I set it? and what value should I set it to?

    I'm not at all sure that the Audigy is capable of the job via PCMCIA, because the SoundPlasters tend to have problems also as internal cards as well as with FW etc. DAW-work is not their strongpoint.

    Well, I tried the same SB on WaveLabs (just to make sure it works) and there was no delay in recording or sound at all. So it works.

    2) Make also sure that the SONAR project and Audigy are set to same sample rate. SBs usually default to 48 Khz.

    Again, how do I do that?

    Are the ASIO drivers downloaded from Creatives site or are you talking about ASIO4ALL, which isn't actually ASIO at all? IIRC SBs work better with other than ASIO, but I'm not sure.

    Well, I got them from the installation CD taht went together with the SB, so it should be OK.

    Will be grateful for the answers.

    Yours sincerely,
    VS



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    Re:Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE 2011/03/19 14:26:53 (permalink)
    kalle's a good guy..hes a helper..and a good one   :)

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    Re:Wild latency of sound/recording on SONAR LE 2011/03/20 06:08:59 (permalink)
    The settings for Sonar are done in the Options dialogue. A usable ASIO-latency (set in the ASIO-panel) is about 12 ms or lower. IIRC the default ASIO latency in SONAR is 50 ms (at least in 4PE it was). The settings for SB are done in it's control panel. I don't have one so you'll need to find out yourself. In some SBs there's a mode of its own for DAW-work, I don't remember what it's called, but selecting that (if you have it) might do good.

    I'd guess the help-files give you most of the answers when you know the search word, like Latency, Buffers, sample rate. Just take your time and read them through.

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