I recently purchased an external USB creative X-fi sound card for my Core2Duo 2Ghz laptop. I have playback ok within winamp but in SONAR 4 and 6 there is a bad latency (tested with normal 192kbps MP3...bee gees :-D) and recording is impossible as its so bad. I was under the impression that this sound card is pretty good for basic recording (48Khz, 16-bit) but i cant achieve this. My setup is a basic DI using a Fender amp (sounds pretty nice with another laptop i have with just Mic-in). My laptop is a samsung Q70 with 2gb RAM 2Ghz Intel Core2Duo processor 120gb Hard disk (1TB external) Internal Realtek HD Audio (Tried recording with hardware enabled and disabled) Aiwa Hifi using Aux-in, ideal as monitors Any ideas would be awesome, thanks fat.tony
Does it have a buffer size you can reduce? What i tend to find with sound cards is the bigger the buffer, the higher the latency, but the better chance you have of getting a good recording. Push the latency too low and you start getting crackles, where your best spot is will depend on the card.
well after messing about ive discovered its SONAR's playback thats causing problems cos the recording sounds alright when saved and played in winamp or whatever. Within sonar ive messed around with the latency levels but it either plays slow and choppy or it plays and tries to catch up with itself...im not quite sure where to go from here :-(
thats fair enough, il need to google the web a bit more but the answers dont sort the issue, i will post bk if i get somewhere :-D
Right, for people with the same problem as me Options > Audio In the Playback and Recording select driver mode to MME (32-bit), let it check your hardware (May take a while) and all works perfectly :-D
