[kr236rk]

hi,

am plugging these cool drums into M-Audio's USB FastTrack pc interface and reording them into MixCraft4 software. They sound great but there is a slight delay meaning it is virtually imposible to accurately mix the drums with anything else :-|

can anybody help please?

thanks

[robfosters]

Your talking about latency. The length of time it takes for the PC to recieve the audio data and process it through the soundcard.

There are 2 possible ways of helping this.

1. Go into the audio settings on mixcraft. There should be a latency option. Try adjusting that to a lower value. You can lower it until you hear clicking when you play. That is a sign that the PC is not keeping up and it needs to be higher. You want to have it on the smallest number where you can hear clear audio.

2. Make sure you have the ASIO drivers installed. I CANT STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE DRIVERS ENOUGH. ASIO is an audio driver thats capable of extremely low audio latency as it bypasses all the windows processing. Try asio4all at ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver To use it you can select the asio driver in mixcraft as your output device instead of your fasttrack interface. It will still route it correctly as you configure the output device in the asio control panel.

This may sound rather complicated, but it's quite easy once you get to grips with it. I'm sure someone else will be along with other recommendations if mine dont work.

[kr236rk]

Originally Posted by robfosters

Your talking about latency. The length of time it takes for the PC to recieve the audio data and process it through the soundcard.

There are 2 possible ways of helping this.

1. Go into the audio settings on mixcraft. There should be a latency option. Try adjusting that to a lower value. You can lower it until you hear clicking when you play. That is a sign that the PC is not keeping up and it needs to be higher. You want to have it on the smallest number where you can hear clear audio.

2. Make sure you have the ASIO drivers installed. ASIO is an audio driver thats capable of extremely low audio latency. Try asio4all at ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver To use it you can select the asio driver in mixcraft as your output device instead of your fasttrack interface. It will still route it correctly as asio4all knows where to send the audio data.

This may sound rather complicated, but it's quite easy once you get to grips with it. I'm sure someone else will be along with other recommendations if mine dont work.

many thanks - will print out and follow

as you can probably appreciate this issue is driving me nuts :-o

will update

[robfosters]

I've edited it since you posted.

[kr236rk]

thanks again

[kr236rk]

Originally Posted by robfosters

Your talking about latency. The length of time it takes for the PC to recieve the audio data and process it through the soundcard.

There are 2 possible ways of helping this.

1. Go into the audio settings on mixcraft. There should be a latency option. Try adjusting that to a lower value. You can lower it until you hear clicking when you play. That is a sign that the PC is not keeping up and it needs to be higher. You want to have it on the smallest number where you can hear clear audio.

could find no way into MixCraft although the 'help topics' had several links to re-setting latency, but clicking those just took you to another topic, they were not linked to the software as such [grr]

managed to set the latency in FT to lowest - got the slider to function: this has improved things slightly but you still had to wobble the drum line back and forth until it was 100% synched - about 1/10th second out - then it sounded great - like i was hearing in my headphones -so i'm still not seeing daylight yet

2. Make sure you have the ASIO drivers installed. I CANT STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE DRIVERS ENOUGH. ASIO is an audio driver thats capable of extremely low audio latency as it bypasses all the windows processing. Try asio4all at ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver To use it you can select the asio driver in mixcraft as your output device instead of your fasttrack interface.

how please? the asio doesn't show up in the volume control pop-up, i think FT is defaulting everything automatically anyway

It will still route it correctly as you configure the output device in the asio control panel.

have downloaded the ASIO driver and have it on my desktop - no idea how to interface it with MixCraft though

This may sound rather complicated, but it's quite easy once you get to grips with it. I'm sure someone else will be along with other recommendations if mine dont work.

am eager for suggestions

thanks