# Playing Multiple Tracks in Cubase LE 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cubase\ **Tags:** cubase-le-ai\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492 "2011-10-26T18:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/1 "2011-10-26T18:56:30Z")
I’ve been recording multiple tracks with Cubase LE 5. When I play the tracks they are not aligned as I recorded them originally. Where can I change the settings so that the tracks are perfectly aligned when I play them?? The track delayslider is at zero but the track still are not aligned. Your help is much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/2 "2011-10-26T19:17:08Z")
What software/hardware? What events midi/audio? What are you recording? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/3 "2011-10-27T00:13:40Z")
I’m recording vocals with a Zoom H4n portable audio interface device. Wether I record the tracks directly into Cubase or import tracks, they are always misaligned. ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/4 "2011-10-27T08:22:21Z")
Try to describe your problem better. Misaligned to what? how are you going about all this? still don’t know your software? You originally said multiple tracks, so I assumed you were recording several tracks at once, but It would seem you are only recording one track at a time? The better the description of the problem the more likely we can help you. One possibility is a samplerate mismatch, what samplerate is the project and what samplerate is the zoom set to? ---
**Author:** ![Strophoid](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/strophoid/32/182_2.png) [@Strophoid](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Strophoid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/5 "2011-10-27T11:41:10Z")
He said LE5 in the title, so that’s one question answered. 🙂 I too don’t quite understand what the problem is though. You mean the different tracks are not in time? Do they drift apart or is there a fixed delay? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/6 "2011-10-27T12:31:30Z")
I’m using LE 5…got it this time? 😆 What I’m doing is I’m recording one vocal track; then, while listening to the first track, recording more tracks. Also, they do seem to drift apart, because it becomes worse towards the end of the track. ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/7 "2011-10-27T13:11:29Z")
> [@Strophoid](#): > > He said LE5 in the title, so that’s one question answered. 🙂 Oh yeah so he did 😆 What are you using as a timing reference? are you trying to sing to the sung track or what, is this getting a bit like squeezing blood out a stone? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/original/3X/b/e/becc0b2f3a148c189008691bb9be347bc647ba07.svg) [@system](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/8 "2011-10-27T14:36:58Z")
> [@Split](#): > > blood out a stone? Read “info out of a newb?”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/9 "2011-10-27T14:50:41Z")
> [@Split](#): > > > [@Strophoid](#): > > > > are you trying to sing to the sung track or what, is this getting a bit like squeezing blood out a stone? That’s exactly what I’m trying to do. I sing the soprano track the add the bass, tenor, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/10 "2011-10-28T09:16:34Z")
So you are using the H4n as a usb audio interface and even though you sing everything in time, when you play back the tracks it is no longer in time? What driver have you set in Cubase? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/11 "2011-10-31T11:19:25Z")
> [@Split](#): > > So you are using the H4n as a usb audio interface and even though you sing everything in time, when you play back the tracks it is no longer in time? > > What driver have you set in Cubase? Exactly; I have it set for the Zoom H4n ASIO driver. ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/12 "2011-10-31T14:08:48Z")
Have you maybe changed the sample rate between takes 44.1/48? ---
**Author:** ![Wayne195](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4bbf92/32.png) [@Wayne195](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Wayne195)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/13 "2011-10-31T20:49:55Z")
> [@Split](#): > > Have you maybe changed the sample rate between takes 44.1/48? I had been letting it set at the 44.1, but I just changed it too 48 setting and that does fix the problem; however, when I record, it now has a terrible white noise…do you have any thoughts as to what is wrong now? ---
**Author:** ![Split](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/split/32/11_2.png) [@Split](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Split)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/14 "2011-11-01T08:13:33Z")
The only thing I can think of at the moment is to make sure both Cubase and the Zoom are set to 48? ---
**Author:** ![steve](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/steve/32/193789_2.png) [@steve](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/steve)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/playing-multiple-tracks-in-cubase-le-5/608492/15 "2022-04-30T23:01:13Z")
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