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Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 12 2008, 04:09 PM

GMC,

I plugged in my guitar, via a Korg AX5G to the pc's line in. Then I put line in volume to a certain level, and tadah!! no latency at all. Now I open Reaper and click on arm. I start playing and then I do have latency! that's weird isn't it? I use the direct sound. ASIO doesn't work either because I get this:
It sais, beyond logic.. pls help.. as you can see I have a Realtek AC'97 Audio device, aswell box as digital, but the digital doesn't output . I also played alongside a metronome, and that also said latency or bad timing. I think my timing is right. But the latency isn't!

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Feb 12 2008, 07:20 PM

Well, you will always have latency issues in your app while recording. Your sound card is too slow to record and convert the signal at the same time. I'm afraid there is no cure for this. You have to move every recorded take by a certain number of milliseconds. That's how I've done it for years when I worked with my integrated card.

Posted by: Dejan Feb 14 2008, 09:26 AM

It's not weird, when you just play then the sound is just going from LINE-IN to LINE-OUT, not leaving the sound-card..

But when you record in Reaper the sound goes from LINE-IN, through Sound card, Processor, Operating System, Reaper, and if you want to monitor while recording it goes all the way back.. The problem of cheap sound-cards is that they put the heaviest burden on Operating system, and ASIO drivers are designed to avoid it as much as possible.

So you can do what Ivan told you, to move back the recorded take a bit to match the backing, or to get a decent sound-card, something like CreativeLabs Live or Audigy

Posted by: Jakub Luptovec Feb 14 2008, 10:31 AM

LOL at "Simple" button picture :D:D (Sorry got to say that )

Posted by: blindwillie Feb 14 2008, 10:48 AM

Haha haven't noticed that before

Ontopic again, I can't tell why your ASIO4ALL doesn't work, I've used it on AC97 without problems, except for higher latency ofc.
Just a thought, is it neccessary to resample to 48 kHz?
Especially with a soundcard at this level?
I would guess that put's some load on your system.

Posted by: Muris Feb 14 2008, 12:30 PM

I would go for a bit better audio card,
matching and editing audio takes all the time is quite irritating,I can tell

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Feb 14 2008, 12:38 PM

That sound card is awful and you can't get a good latency with it. I think you're best off buying a better sound card. It is an onboard sound card. Anything onboard isn't of much use.

Posted by: Muris Feb 14 2008, 12:50 PM

True but sounds sooo odd

Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 23 2008, 07:39 PM

How do you match those takes? I can't find a way in reaper to match the takes. I want to start like 40 ms earlier then it does now.

Posted by: Smells Feb 23 2008, 08:14 PM

you can click and drag the recorded part (or any part come to that) in Reaper, you`ll have to disable the snapping option by clicking option, then remove the tick from snapping, then you can move it to exactly the point you want, bit of trial and error sometimes.

Posted by: swingline Feb 23 2008, 08:29 PM

Thats what I do, I wish you could type in the lantecy amount i.e. 35ms and then it scoots it forward 35ms. That would be handy.

Posted by: Toni Suominen Feb 25 2008, 03:05 PM

I agree with Muris here. A decent audio card isn't that expensive, and you will save a lot of time with it

Posted by: kaznie_NL Feb 25 2008, 03:07 PM

When the BT starts to do the "one two three four" tick, then I play along with the note I want to start with. Then after recording, just zoom in and get those beats in line with eachother, then it sounds nice!

THNX for the tip on moving the track!