Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL

Re:Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (CJaysMusic)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:18:36 GMT

think I'm going to have to disagree with CJ here on part of his post since the US-144 is a USB device and not firewire.

Lol, Yea, i think ill disagree with myself also. I thought it was firewire for some reason..

Re:Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (jtmusic311)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:43 GMT

Thank for all the posts guys, I'm gonna give ASIO driver mode a shot. Zungle, it was just some cheapo Fast Track M-Audio USB device. It had like two inputs and a couple controls.

Re:Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (zungle)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:14:25 GMT

What old cheap M-Audio device were you using?

If it is/was any of the Delta series ......they will all out perform the Tascam . As they are PCI interfaces not USB.

Re:Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (Beagle)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:12:31 GMT

I think I'm going to have to disagree with CJ here on part of his post since the US-144 is a USB device and not firewire.
the other part of his post, however, is correct where you fix your latency. change to ASIO driver mode and then if you still have high latency you need to decrease your hardware buffers in the tascam driver software.

Re:Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (CJaysMusic)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:21 GMT

The thing with tascam is that its uses a Dice II FW chipset and if your pc doesn't have a TI FW chipset, your shoot out of luck as far as tacam or alesis goes. DiceII is great for Mac's and not so great for windows
Try getting a TI FW chipset for your pc and see if you can get low latency without dropping out.
Another thing to check are your driver modes. Try ASIO and WDM
And another thing is to make sure you have the latest drivers for your windows by going to tascam.com

Latency Issues with Sonar 7 Home Studio XL (jtmusic311)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:43 GMT

Hi all,

I recently purchased Sonar 7 HS XL and a new recording interface (Tascam us-144). All I'm looking to do is record some guitar/bass parts over some drum tracks....pretty simple stuff. However, the recording latency is KILLING ME! When I manually try to lower the latency, I get dropout after dropout and Sonar seems to kick my Tascam to the curb. I have no idea what to do, any ideas?????!?!

PS My old and CHEAP M-Audio interface and some 50$ recording software didn't have ANY latency issues whatsoever, and I am seriously thinking about using that stuff again.

My PC specs arent spectacular, but I'd think 3GB of RAM, and a 2.1 GHZ processor would be enough to power this puppy without problems syncing my tracks nice and tight because of latency issues. I would really appreciate any comments whatsoever.