Okay, thanks for the info. Yeah, nothing I try seems to affect the audio delay. None of the latency settings change anything. The tracks are always fraction of a second too slow whether it's WDM or ASIO and I can't seem to even affect the fraction. However, I will stick with WDM because at least I can access the ports 3/4 that way. I will try the higher latency settings if that might help - seems counter intuitive, but I guess I don't understand what the setting means. My CPU is a quad-core Intel i5 3.3GHz with 16MB RAM - not the fastest PC in the world, but I'd think that should be good enough not to have to slide every track over. Thanks.

Deselect the Generic driver
Select the 3 US600 Drivers: US600 Driver 1, US 600 Driver 3 and US600 Driver 5.

The way it works is Driver 1 will give you the following inputs: 
1 - Left
2 - Right 
1/2 - Stereo

Driver 3 will give you:
3 - Left
4 - Right
3/4 - Stereo 

Driver 5 will give you
5 - Left
6 - Right
5/6 - Stereo

That's how most soundcards pair up the inputs so that you can record mono and stereo tracks. Keep in mind, mono inputs, like a microphone or a guitar, should be recorded onto a mono track or you won't be able to pan them left or right. 

daveny5


Deselect the Generic driver
Select the 3 US600 Drivers: US600 Driver 1, US 600 Driver 3 and US600 Driver 5.

The way it works is Driver 1 will give you the following inputs: 
1 - Left
2 - Right 
1/2 - Stereo

Driver 3 will give you:
3 - Left
4 - Right
3/4 - Stereo 

Driver 5 will give you
5 - Left
6 - Right
5/6 - Stereo

That's how most soundcards pair up the inputs so that you can record mono and stereo tracks. Keep in mind, mono inputs, like a microphone or a guitar, should be recorded onto a mono track or you won't be able to pan them left or right. 

I wonder if it also dont have something to do with the Mono Stereo switches on the rear as well.  Ive never messed with a card with that set up

swb909


Okay, thanks for the info. Yeah, nothing I try seems to affect the audio delay. None of the latency settings change anything. The tracks are always fraction of a second too slow whether it's WDM or ASIO and I can't seem to even affect the fraction. However, I will stick with WDM because at least I can access the ports 3/4 that way. I will try the higher latency settings if that might help - seems counter intuitive, but I guess I don't understand what the setting means. My CPU is a quad-core Intel i5 3.3GHz with 16MB RAM - not the fastest PC in the world, but I'd think that should be good enough not to have to slide every track over. Thanks.

On the Delay your hearing,


Go into Preferences


Under the Sync and Caching heading


You will see Playback and Record I/O buffer sizes,  what are they set at?

Your computer should be smoking along without any issues. That is 4x more a machine than I have. 

I think if you mess with the setting that things get buggered up. 

I have never adjusted the latency settings or buffers so cannot comment on which is best, I just let Sonar set this up and it has always worked perfectly for me. 

There is nothing wrong with using the WDM drivers. As a matter of fact I did a little reading and came to the conclusion that for some PC configuration ASIO drivers, which are not native to MS systems, might not work as well as the native WDM drivers. We are even told by Cakewalk themselves to try both and use which ever seems the most stable. 

Just a note on the 3/4 inputs. Under ASIO on some they will share drivers with the SPDIF and you have to select either SPDIF or 3/4 as an input in the Tascam control panel. 

Try setting the Tascam control panel to the second lowest setting, not the lowest. 

There is a test to see if SOnar is not adjusting for latency offset. 

Use a midi kick or snare drum track.
Bounce it to an audio track 
Or use a real snare or anything with a super obvious transient spike. Hit your guitar PU's. anything. 
Patch your output of the Tascam back to a input and re- record to a new audio track. 
Put them side by side and see zoom in to see if the transients line up. 
There is a way to adjust the offset manually. 
But I think there's something gone wrong when you have to do this as Sonar is normally dead on. 
Are your monitoring from the Tascam and with input echo off? 

I wonder if it also dont have something to do with the Mono Stereo switches on the rear as well.  Ive never messed with a card with that set up

Good point. I looked up the manual and it sheds some light on this. 


If you set both to Stereo, then
In 1 goes to Out 1
In 2 goes to Out 2
In 3 goes to Out 3
In 4 goes to Out 4

If you set them both to Mono, then 
In 1 goes to Outs 1 and 2
In 2 goes to Outs 1 and 2
In 3 goes to Outs 3 and 4
In 4 goes to Outs 3 and 4

5 and 6 are used by the coax digital input and output.