How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live?

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Si Powers
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2007/08/26 07:37:59 (permalink)

How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live?

The documentation with Sonar 6 says you can use effects live. I assume this means I can set a reverb on my vocal and hear it in my cans as I record, but how do you do this? Simply putting a plug-in on the channel I am using doesn't effect my vocal.

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    DonM
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    RE: How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live? 2007/08/26 09:30:53 (permalink)
    Click on the input monitor button on the armed channel - you'll hear the effects - you may have to tune your latency in Options Audio to reduce the delay.

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    RE: How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live? 2007/08/26 16:48:01 (permalink)
    Also, if yo can hear yourself coming through the headphones, then that must mean you have monitoring enabled on the audio device itself (as opposed to just monitoring through SONAR). If you monitor through SONAR and in hardware at the same time then your voie will sound flangy or perhaps have a slight slapback, depending on your total roundtrip latency. Hardware monitoring is effectively zero-latency, while SONAR monitoring is > 0 latency, so you don't really want to mix both.


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    Jim Roseberry
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    RE: How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live? 2007/08/27 00:08:19 (permalink)
    The documentation with Sonar 6 says you can use effects live. I assume this means I can set a reverb on my vocal and hear it in my cans as I record, but how do you do this? Simply putting a plug-in on the channel I am using doesn't effect my vocal.



    If you're tracking scenario isn't too complex, you can combine hardware based monitoring and software based monitoring:
    Setup your audio interface to allow hardware based monitoring of the input signal.
    Now... apply a reverb plugin to the Sonar track... and set it's mix to 100% wet. Make sure to enable input monitoring.
    The advantage of this method is that you can raise your latency a bit... and it'll only affect the reverb when monitoring.
    If you keep your effective latency to 12ms or less... this is a very workable (and CPU efficient) scenario.

    FWIW, If you're going to monitor completely via software, your audio interface's round-trip latency becomes a critical factor. Anything above ~5-6ms total round-trip latency starts to feel sluggish.

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    Si Powers
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    RE: How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live? 2007/08/27 14:02:35 (permalink)
    Thanks very much guys, will be trying out your suggestions!

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    RE: How can I hear/use effects while recording, ie. live? 2007/08/27 14:06:22 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: Jim Roseberry

    The documentation with Sonar 6 says you can use effects live. I assume this means I can set a reverb on my vocal and hear it in my cans as I record, but how do you do this? Simply putting a plug-in on the channel I am using doesn't effect my vocal.



    If you're tracking scenario isn't too complex, you can combine hardware based monitoring and software based monitoring:
    Setup your audio interface to allow hardware based monitoring of the input signal.
    Now... apply a reverb plugin to the Sonar track... and set it's mix to 100% wet. Make sure to enable input monitoring.
    The advantage of this method is that you can raise your latency a bit... and it'll only affect the reverb when monitoring.
    If you keep your effective latency to 12ms or less... this is a very workable (and CPU efficient) scenario.

    FWIW, If you're going to monitor completely via software, your audio interface's round-trip latency becomes a critical factor. Anything above ~5-6ms total round-trip latency starts to feel sluggish.



    That's exactly what I do. It really works great.
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