Cubase and audio monitoring

[hummingbird]

Ok Hummingbird, if you have the fast track pro, there is a different knob. Input/playback mix knob. Fully counterclockwise you should hear only your voice. Fully clockwise should be only cubase music. anywhere in between is both signals mixed, more left more voice, more right more music. It also says to make sure you mute the tracks you will be recording your voice on because if not they will be sent back out of cubase and you will hear both versions of your voice and the cubase music.

http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/ma ... N01_V3.PDF


scroll down to "monitoring your inputs for recording" in the manual. (bottom of page 12 of the pdf document)

If you have some other model,lol, if you let us know specifically which one we can find how to get this done I am sure!!

I have an M-Audio FastTrack. It's a single channel - the basic model. It's several years old. Thanks for the link. I found the manual for it. It does say "engage the Direct Monitor button for low latency monitoring". The diagram indicates a Direct Monitor button, but my model doesn't have it. Likely too old.

[hummingbird]

You change the latency (buffersize) from the fastracks asio controll panel, not inside Cubase. You should be able to go down to 10ms or less when you're recording and increase the buffer size when you're mixing. On some systems you have to restart the computer when you make changes, Cubase doesn't always like the changes on the fly.

Thanks!!! I was able to change the buffer size on the FastTrack down to 128. There is still latency but it's a little better. It's okay on long notes but distracting if I am singing several words. I found if I turned the volume down so I could just faintly hear my voice it was almost liveable.

[mojobone]

Mute your vocal track in Cubase while recording, so you don't hear both the incoming and outgoing audio, then adjust the blend knob.

[Dwayne Russell]

It is only the audio monitoring that is the issue. We're closer, though!! Output latency reduced for sure. My head is spinning with all this so I think I'll take a break and come back to it in a couple days.

Don't use "audio monitoring'" when you are recording honey. Leave it off. The only reason you will want to use that is if you want to record hearing reverb but not recording the reverb.

If you want to hear reverb while recording but record the reverb you will need to put your sound card all the way down to 64 and then use your "audio monitoring" And your computer might not handle that.

Hmmm. Thanks. Not sure if we're talkin' bout the same thing. Every recording studio I've been to provides a headphone mix of music & voice. It's better for a singer to hear themselves singing, since the headphones block the sound. That's all I'm attempting to do here. I don't want to record with reverb because it can't be changed. Better to record dry and add effects later if needed.

However, I've been recording vocals without monitoring for 3 or 4 years, if I can't get this to work that's okay. Just wondered if it was something I could resolve.

ok. How many outputs does your sound card have? Use one or two of them for your headphones.

[hummingbird]

THANK YOU ALL

this problem has now been resolved! Whoo hoo!

The trick was to select the FastTrack driver in the Device Manager in Cubase, and then plug the headphones into the FastTrack - and turn up the output. Now I can hear the music, and hear my voice without latency.

Oh boy! I'm gonna have fun now.

Thanks again!

[Dwayne Russell]

THANK YOU ALL

this problem has now been resolved! Whoo hoo!

The trick was to select the FastTrack driver in the Device Manager in Cubase, and then plug the headphones into the FastTrack - and turn up the output. Now I can hear the music, and hear my voice without latency.

Oh boy! I'm gonna have fun now.

Thanks again!

That is what I said. You are not monitoring through Cubase now.

[hummingbird]

the initial problem was that I didn't have a driver installed for the Fastrack - and didn't realize I needed one. Casey suggested I download one.

I tried monitoring through the Fastrack, but of course it didn't work. Because I didn't have it selected as the driver.

Thanks again everyone!!!

[mojobone]

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