SONAR 3 problem

[AgingYouth]

Hi all,

Just got a Compaq Presario V2000, Centrino Millenium 1.6Ghz, 512MB and 80GB HD. Installed SONAR 3 recently. I've tried to play ard with it to test if i could record any audio into the software.

Tried plugging in a electic-acoustic guitar into the mic input to test recording the guitar. The hiss is unbearable but I'm looking at a pre-amp. Hopefully that'd solve the problem.

What really gets my goat is that I can't hear any audio playback from my instrument source while recording. When I switch on the "input echo" button, the audio from the source instrument comes in 1 sec after I've strummed it. This is damn frustrating and I've no idea to correct this prob.

Pardon me cuz I'm not too good at this IT stuff. Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.

 

[fibredrive]

have u tried playing around with ur settings for the soundcard? under sonar's options, u can tweak the buffer and latency settings i believe. also, what sound card r u using?
as for ur semi acoustic guitar, when u plug into the mixer's inputs, make sure u get ur gain settings right. so that u don't over do it and end up with more noise than signal. hope ur mixer has a manual that teaches u proper gain settings. if not, can try mackie's website where they do have downloadable manuals and just follow from there. concept pretty mnuch the same altho buttons might differ...hope this helps.
go to cakewalk website also and check their list of approved sound cards to see if urs in the list. and check ur sound card website also to see if they have exemplary settings for cakewalk software (e.g. Echo has this info).

 

[lowjk]

What really gets my goat is that I can't hear any audio playback from my instrument source while recording. When I switch on the "input echo" button, the audio from the source instrument comes in 1 sec after I've strummed it. This is damn frustrating and I've no idea to correct this prob.

Pardon me cuz I'm not too good at this IT stuff. Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.

If you are using the notebook's onboard sound drivers, it's unlikely that you are on an ASIO or WDM driver.

Try isntalling this and select this as the sound device driver in SONAR:
http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

jk

 

[AgingYouth]

have u tried playing around with ur settings for the soundcard? under sonar's options, u can tweak the buffer and latency settings i believe. also, what sound card r u using?
as for ur semi acoustic guitar, when u plug into the mixer's inputs, make sure u get ur gain settings right. so that u don't over do it and end up with more noise than signal. hope ur mixer has a manual that teaches u proper gain settings. if not, can try mackie's website where they do have downloadable manuals and just follow from there. concept pretty mnuch the same altho buttons might differ...hope this helps.
go to cakewalk website also and check their list of approved sound cards to see if urs in the list. and check ur sound card website also to see if they have exemplary settings for cakewalk software (e.g. Echo has this info).

Hi fibredrive,

Thanks for your advice. The onboard soundcard is a Conexant AC-Link Audio and I'm not using a mixer as of yet. The signal is just one second late. It's extremely distracting and irritating. Sigh...

Basically, I'm trying out to see if i can just record any audio in from the mic input on the soundcard. You are right abt the noise level but i'm worrying abt tt later.

Thanks for your tip! Will check for any soundcard conflict.

 

[AgingYouth]

What really gets my goat is that I can't hear any audio playback from my instrument source while recording. When I switch on the "input echo" button, the audio from the source instrument comes in 1 sec after I've strummed it. This is damn frustrating and I've no idea to correct this prob.

Pardon me cuz I'm not too good at this IT stuff. Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.

If you are using the notebook's onboard sound drivers, it's unlikely that you are on an ASIO or WDM driver.

Try isntalling this and select this as the sound device driver in SONAR:
http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

jk

Hi jk,

Thanks fo your advice. I'd try that to see if it works...