Hi,
  Just wonding if anyone might have some suggestions on getting rid of the latency when recording vocals.  I have Sonar x2A.  My machine is a ci7 with a 3 ghz processor and 12 gigs of mem.  My audio interface is a MOTU 2408 mk3 using a pci 424 card.  I also have an original 2408 on the same card.  I use a focusrite octorpre dynamic for my mic pre.  I use the adat interface from the focusrite to the mk3.  I am using the asio drivers.  I have adjusted the buffers on the interface from 1024 to 64.  When I record I have the echo input initiated.  However, I still get a noticeable and very dristracting latency when I attempt to record my vocals. 
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks
Dave

Do you have any CPU hungry FX such as Perfect Space running, or any look ahead effects?
 
What are your buffer settings?

Hi - You may want to considering monitoring via the MOTU, so you wouldn't have to monitor via the echo input function within Sonar.

Yea, use the moto soft mixer to get a zero latency feed.

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Here are a couple of thing I have done to reduce latency. If i am using lots of processing, reverbs, effect, compressors, guitar rig etc. I freeze the tracks. This will free up psome resources so I can reduce my ASIO buffers down to 256 or 128. Or I just simply turn off reverbs etc. on a couple of occassions, I have bounced a stereo mix, used in current project, or created a new project with the 2 tracks bounced and recorded vocals, and then imported them back into the main project. However, that was when I had a single core computer / sonar 5, a few years ago.  May not be ideal, but ut has gotten the job done.   There is probably better ways to do this, however I haven't figured them out yet. hopefully someone will post it.

Whenever I record anything the first thing I do is to globally bypass all Effects.

Bristol_Jonesey


Whenever I record anything the first thing I do is to globally bypass all Effects.

 
 
 
See, i learn something eveytime I vist the forum. I did not know you could globally bypass effects. I need to figure out how to do that! Thanks Bristol!!

In the near future, I will publish on YouTube, through a screencast, or simply good illustrations how (in Sonar X2) to compensate for latency down to the sample! Even the ASIO driver "measured" latency is not accurate enough for me, so I will show a method of how this can be done, and it relies solely on YOUR actual hardware/software/drivers and such, so that you don't have to trust any of it beyond stability. If/when I get this done (hopefully in the next week)

Bristol_Jonesey


Whenever I record anything the first thing I do is to globally bypass all Effects.

^^^^^
I sometimes do this, but usually if I bypass the effects in the master bus I can get latency down to 128 or 64.

TraceyStudios

Bristol_Jonesey


Whenever I record anything the first thing I do is to globally bypass all Effects.

 
 
 
See, i learn something eveytime I vist the forum. I did not know you could globally bypass effects. I need to figure out how to do that! Thanks Bristol!!

There's a button in the Control Bar, I forget which module, but it's Labelled Fx. Toggle it on/off here.

Or...... there's a keyboard shortcut, I think it's 'E'