jen1234 Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Hi guys, I've just got a new imac and have had to upgrade to Logic studio 9. I'm experiencing latency issues when recording which I haven't had before. Soundcard is firewire powered, wondered if this may make a difference? I've messed around with the audio buffer setting, doesn't seem to make any difference but then I'm not totally sure what I'm doing there. Have frozen the tracks which I believe should use less cpu? Is this the same as turning off the pluggins? Is there a simple thing which I'm missing? Had a read through the manual but find it quite confusing. Can anyone help? Thanks, Jen. I've read that I should record vocals with low latency on but this cuts off the buses and I have all my headphone mixes running off buses from the channel strip. A friend came over and set them up this way. So if I press low latency then I can't hear myself when recording.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Are you using an interface? If yes, does it have a headphone output? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jen1234 Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Hi, yes thanks I did some recordings last night using the motu's headphone out and had no latency issues. I have some musicians coming over at the weekend will the latency only effect things when recording vocals? Also can anyone help me with settings for the audio buffers? What are their settings actually effecting? Thanks, Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 The I/O buffer is going to determine how much latency you will have. The lower the buffer setting, say 128, 64, or 32 (certain computer models cannot handle 32) the less latency. Perfect for recording live vocals and instruments. Sometimes when you have overloading messages when playing back your music you have to increase the buffer, thus increasing the latency for recording. It doesn't matter for playback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jen1234 Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 Great, thank you. Also bit unsure of recording delay and process buffer range? I've noticed that dropping in when recording seems to have a second delay or something but this hasn't really changed by altering the settings here....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 When you want to record in a "punching" manner, meaning while it's playing, you have to enable Punch in on Fly. I think it's under Options/Audio on the top Logic menu. This will avoid the delay, unless you have hard drive issues. Keep in mind that you want to be recording to a separate internal or an external firewire drive, and also save your projects there. Recording to the system drive will give you problems once the amount of tracks increases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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