yeto Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 In the below picture, where it says Timing Offset(msec), is this where I would sync vocals to my instrument recordings? Thank you, yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 If anyone is interested I was able to get this solved, "I think", here. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/cakewalk-sonar/1254052-does-cakewalk-have-some-type-latency-compensation-feature.html?posted=1#post13863218 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) After more research maybe I would adjust here (see photo). Can someone provide any help as to how I would do this? Thank you in advance for any help, yeto Edited March 10, 2019 by yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 I have tried both "Full Chase Lock" and "Record latency Adjustment - Manual Offset" and I just can't get the Audio/Vocal track to line up with the Instrument Tracks. BandLab's "Online" DAW has a Latency Test does Cakewalk have something similar? Thank you in advance for any help, yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 (edited) Is the "Nudge" feature what I have been looking for all along to align the vocal track with the instrument tracks because there just does not seem to be a way to do this during the actual recording of the vocal track? https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=Arranging.24.html Edited March 12, 2019 by yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 I take it Cakewalk does not have a "latency compensation" feature/setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 msmcleod Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 (edited) On 3/12/2019 at 11:11 AM, yeto said: I take it Cakewalk does not have a "latency compensation" feature/setting? Cakewalk has always had latency compensation built in from the early days of Sonar (unlike the cheaper versions of Pro Tools). It's automatic and doesn't need to be enabled. Cakewalk relies on the information provided to it by the driver. As the vast majority of users here don't get issues with latency compensation, I suspect it's your audio driver that is misrepresenting the actual latency values. Edited March 13, 2019 by msmcleod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Larry Jones Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 On 3/12/2019 at 4:11 AM, yeto said: I take it Cakewalk does not have a "latency compensation" feature/setting? Sorry you haven't been getting any help here. Can you tell us what PC you are using, what audio interface (or no audio interface), and how you are going about putting vocals onto your backing tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, Larry Jones said: Sorry you haven't been getting any help here. Can you tell us what PC you are using, what audio interface (or no audio interface), and how you are going about putting vocals onto your backing tracks? Dell desktop - Windows 10 - motherboard sound card - "no" audio interface I am running my mic into a usb port. Edited March 14, 2019 by yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Larry Jones Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Right off the top I'll say that you'd be far better off with an audio interface designed for this kind of work and a "real" microphone. Your computer is seeing the mic as an audio device. The mic is used as an input, but it can't be an output (for playback/monitoring), so the internal sound card is used for that. Under Edit|Preferences|Audio|Driver Settings you will probably see your internal sound card as the Playback Timing Master and your USB mic as the Record Timing Master. That should screw up your sync right there, but it's the only way it'll work at all. Maybe if you go to Edit|Preferences|Audio|Playback and Recording and change the "Driver Mode" to one of the WASAPI choices you'll get better results. Also, the mic may be a 16-bit only device, so make sure you're not recording at a different bit depth (like 24). Cakewalk is designed for use with a single, fast audio interface and if you use one your latency and sync should not be (much of) an issue. You would never, for example, have to slide a recorded track around on the timeline to get it in sync with existing tracks. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Larry Jones said: Right off the top I'll say that you'd be far better off with an audio interface designed for this kind of work and a "real" microphone. Your computer is seeing the mic as an audio device. The mic is used as an input, but it can't be an output (for playback/monitoring), so the internal sound card is used for that. Under Edit|Preferences|Audio|Driver Settings you will probably see your internal sound card as the Playback Timing Master and your USB mic as the Record Timing Master. That should screw up your sync right there, but it's the only way it'll work at all. Maybe if you go to Edit|Preferences|Audio|Playback and Recording and change the "Driver Mode" to one of the WASAPI choices you'll get better results. Also, the mic may be a 16-bit only device, so make sure you're not recording at a different bit depth (like 24). Cakewalk is designed for use with a single, fast audio interface and if you use one your latency and sync should not be (much of) an issue. You would never, for example, have to slide a recorded track around on the timeline to get it in sync with existing tracks. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I hope this helps. When I try to use ASIO my mic won't work. Do you see anything I am doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Larry Jones Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Can you change the Record Timing Master to your USB microphone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 scook Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 The ASIO specification requires the host to use one I/O driver at a time. If the microphone has an ASIO driver and the driver is installed, in order to use the microphone in ASIO driver mode, all audio input and outputs in preferences must be deselected before the microphone may be selected in preferences. Once selected in preferences, the device will appear in audio input and output drop downs. To use the Realtek chip for output and the microphone for input requires a different driver mode or ASIO4All which aggregates WDM drivers and presents them to the DAW as a single ASIO driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 30 minutes ago, scook said: The ASIO specification requires the host to use one I/O driver at a time. If the microphone has an ASIO driver and the driver is installed, in order to use the microphone in ASIO driver mode, all audio input and outputs in preferences must be deselected before the microphone may be selected in preferences. Once selected in preferences, the device will appear in audio input and output drop downs. To use the Realtek chip for output and the microphone for input requires a different driver mode or ASIO4All which aggregates WDM drivers and presents them to the DAW as a single ASIO driver. I deselected > then clicked apply > I don't see the mic if I did everything correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 scook Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Either the device does not have an ASIO driver or the ASIO driver is not installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 msmcleod Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 I think the Realtek Speakers & Microphone are different devices from the Realtek HD Audio, and they are all presented as separate devices within Windows. It would seem Realtek have provided ASIO drivers for the HD Audio part, but not for the Speakers or Mic. Note that the analog ports (certainly on my motherboard) are the speakers/microphone, whereas the HD Audio can only be used via an adapter to the digital output on the motherboard, or through HDMI. The reason there are 3 HD Audio output devices is for surround support. My recommendation would be to get a dedicated audio interface. Failing that, use WASAPI or ASIO via ASIO4ALL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 yeto Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 2 hours ago, msmcleod said: My recommendation would be to get a dedicated audio interface. Failing that, use WASAPI or ASIO via ASIO4ALL. I studied some old threads related to ASIO via ASIO4ALL and I don't think I want to go down that road. I am going to experiment with WASAPI and I will report back. Thank you for taking time to help, yeto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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