SONAR 3 LATENCY

IM GETTING LIKE A MILISECOND OF LAG WHEN RECORDING IN USING SONAR 3,ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS

get asio drivers and make it 11mis, or 512 for the buffer. that should take care of it. If u dont have an ASIO sound card there might be some drivers on line that do it with directx.

THANKS

THE ASIO BUFFER SIZE ON MY SOUND CARD IS ALREADY SET TO 512

if you are using your computers standard soundcard do a search at google for "asio4all" which is a driver to make your standard soundcard work with 11 mis. it is known to work very well.

i gut the maudio revolution ,sample rate 44100,asio buffer size 512 , i still need the asio forall?

no

Set your buffer to a smaller size until you get weirdness in the audio, then put it one setting up. 64, 128 etc..

now is there a way to go below 512? casue mine bottoms out at that. if i could get a lil more outta it that would be hot.

It depends what your soundcard supports, sometimes updating the drivers will allow you to go lower. The buffer thing really confuses me, the soundcard ones are easy, but then software have their own, Hard disks, AGGHH!! ANyone know what a good HD buffer is?

8mb is about standard across the board for audio recording on a hard drive.

Cool, thanks e.

loo2004ep wrote:IM GETTING LIKE A MILISECOND OF LAG WHEN RECORDING IN USING SONAR 3,ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS

Are you monitoring your sound, when recording, thru sonar or a mixer?
I suggest monitoring thru a mixer.
If you just need to monitor thru sonar's input monitor, then you have to go to option\audio then in the "mixing latency" section set the buffer size as low as you can, I have a delta 66 card as my audio interface and I can usually set it at about 4ms ( for vocals ) and not get a delay, but it'll really put a strain on your computer, for recording sound from a keyboard or something usually anything under 35ms will do the trick. I hope this is what you needed. Peace.

"ANyone know what a good HD buffer is?"

Buffer in itself does not determine a good drive. I've done work on a 1 Meg buffer SCSI subsystem that a 8Mb IDE drive would not handle. The buffer is subject to the same issues as been descibe earlier in this thread. If the drive cannot keep up with the rate of data send to it, then the buffer does eventually fill and the system slows down to empty the buffer. Audio data buffers simply discard the overflow since it is not considered 'vital'. A larger buffer on a drive primarily assist in data bursts, and provide little in helping to stream continuous data.

There's a lot more to this than I can even go into and we could even start another thread. I usually avoid the issue altogether and just use an Akai DPS16.

On the HD topic....don't get any drive lower than 72oo RPM. 10,000 RPM is good.

I think Cakewalk actually suggests using the WDM drivers with Sonar and XP for best performance. I don't remember for sure though.