Recorded vocals lagging during playback?

[cubace]

@AudioFreak

@Scab Pickens

You could try installing the ASIO4ALL driver to see if it improves anything, or at least to compare results. For what it’s worth, I had the same interface and ended up getting frustrated with the lack of quality drivers and basically “outgrew” it. I feel sorry for whoever bought it after pawning it off at Music-Go-Round .

That said, I’m not sure that your issue really has anything to do with the interface or it’s drivers …

You still haven’t mentioned what your latency settings are, whether you are monitoring the input directly or through Cubase, or if any plugins are involved.

I have been using the Asio4all drivers. My latency for both input and output are both 3.333. I’ve tried monitoring both input directly and in Cubase. Even if I sing or rap on tempo with the playing metronome, when played back, the recorded audio is lagged by about a second if not, half a second. There are no plugins on any inserts on any of my channels. This is a fresh project. I’m just trying to record vocals. I already tried the record shift and it’s not working either.

You need to specify how many samples you got.

[AudioFreak]

@Scab Pickens

Sorry, I missed that you mentioned you were using ASIO4ALL (also a few other details … oops ). Is that because the Tascam drivers are not functional?

You say this is a “fresh Project”, yet you say any of my channels? Have you tried an empty project with just a metronome beat? Record a single track with absolutely nothing on the audio track or the master out (drumstick clicks or something obviously transient). Compare the recorded WAV peaks with the Cubase grid. Do they line up within reason? I’m just trying to figure out if the “delay” you are trying to describe (it’s somewhat difficult to understand) is happening during recording or playback.

Hello! So I’ve had the opportunity to try this a couple times actually. Opening a brand new empty template, recording to just the metronome and in my headphones, I sound on tempo, but during playback, it is off tempo.

[AudioFreak]

@cubace

@AudioFreak

@Scab Pickens

You could try installing the ASIO4ALL driver to see if it improves anything, or at least to compare results. For what it’s worth, I had the same interface and ended up getting frustrated with the lack of quality drivers and basically “outgrew” it. I feel sorry for whoever bought it after pawning it off at Music-Go-Round .

That said, I’m not sure that your issue really has anything to do with the interface or it’s drivers …

You still haven’t mentioned what your latency settings are, whether you are monitoring the input directly or through Cubase, or if any plugins are involved.

I have been using the Asio4all drivers. My latency for both input and output are both 3.333. I’ve tried monitoring both input directly and in Cubase. Even if I sing or rap on tempo with the playing metronome, when played back, the recorded audio is lagged by about a second if not, half a second. There are no plugins on any inserts on any of my channels. This is a fresh project. I’m just trying to record vocals. I already tried the record shift and it’s not working either.

You need to specify how many samples you got.

Can you clarify what you mean?

[cubace]

@AudioFreak

@cubace

@AudioFreak

I have been using the Asio4all drivers. My latency for both input and output are both 3.333. I’ve tried monitoring both input directly and in Cubase. Even if I sing or rap on tempo with the playing metronome, when played back, the recorded audio is lagged by about a second if not, half a second. There are no plugins on any inserts on any of my channels. This is a fresh project. I’m just trying to record vocals. I already tried the record shift and it’s not working either.

You need to specify how many samples you got.

Can you clarify what you mean?

If you dont have a consistent behaving soundcard you can measure that. It is most likely not. But then you have added the measured latency into cubase it should be consistent. It might have real time latency but the recording should be sample accurate.

[Scab_Pickens]

@AudioFreak

@Scab Pickens

Sorry, I missed that you mentioned you were using ASIO4ALL (also a few other details … oops ). Is that because the Tascam drivers are not functional?

You say this is a “fresh Project”, yet you say any of my channels? Have you tried an empty project with just a metronome beat? Record a single track with absolutely nothing on the audio track or the master out (drumstick clicks or something obviously transient). Compare the recorded WAV peaks with the Cubase grid. Do they line up within reason? I’m just trying to figure out if the “delay” you are trying to describe (it’s somewhat difficult to understand) is happening during recording or playback.

Hello! So I’ve had the opportunity to try this a couple times actually. Opening a brand new empty template, recording to just the metronome and in my headphones, I sound on tempo, but during playback, it is off tempo.

I understand. When you look at the actual waveform displayed after recording, do the peaks line up with the grid? If so, I would guess the problem is more related to playback than recording. Just trying to narrow things down.

[AudioFreak]

@Scab Pickens

@AudioFreak

@Scab Pickens

Sorry, I missed that you mentioned you were using ASIO4ALL (also a few other details … oops ). Is that because the Tascam drivers are not functional?

You say this is a “fresh Project”, yet you say any of my channels? Have you tried an empty project with just a metronome beat? Record a single track with absolutely nothing on the audio track or the master out (drumstick clicks or something obviously transient). Compare the recorded WAV peaks with the Cubase grid. Do they line up within reason? I’m just trying to figure out if the “delay” you are trying to describe (it’s somewhat difficult to understand) is happening during recording or playback.

Hello! So I’ve had the opportunity to try this a couple times actually. Opening a brand new empty template, recording to just the metronome and in my headphones, I sound on tempo, but during playback, it is off tempo.

I understand. When you look at the actual waveform displayed after recording, do the peaks line up with the grid? If so, I would guess the problem is more related to playback than recording. Just trying to narrow things down.

Hello! I’ve had a chance of zooming in and taking a look over the past couple of days cause I was curious myself and unfortunately, it does not. I’ve plugged in my old computer to record and everything is fine so that’s why at first I thought it was my interface since its compatible with XP and has the latest driver updates possible that still are compatible with XP but not so much Windows 10 I don’t think. I’m a newbie when it comes to troubleshooting DAWs so please excuse me if I seem to come off like I know what I’m talking about or arrogant. I’m just explaining my thought process in some possible reasons why I myself think this could be happening and explaining it to all of you to see if my reasons are far off, or possible.

[Scab_Pickens]

Have you tried the Tascam 2.05 driver on the new computer? I’m running out of ideas. I get the feeling something isn’t set up correctly, but I’m not sure what it might be. Do you have, or know anyone who has, a different interface you could test with on this computer?

[AudioFreak]

@Scab Pickens

Have you tried the Tascam 2.05 driver on the new computer? I’m running out of ideas. I get the feeling something isn’t set up correctly, but I’m not sure what it might be. Do you have, or know anyone who has, a different interface you could test with on this computer?

Hello! Yes, I’ve downloaded the latest firmware which was 2013 and update from 2014.

[AudioFreak]

@Scab Pickens

Have you tried the Tascam 2.05 driver on the new computer? I’m running out of ideas. I get the feeling something isn’t set up correctly, but I’m not sure what it might be. Do you have, or know anyone who has, a different interface you could test with on this computer?

I’ve reverted all setting back to default so everything is factory resetted as far as Cubase settings go.

[paya_nadar]

I know what can solve your problem in 1min i had the same issue every time I’m recording.

1-on the screen top right you see one button click on it then click on * constrain delay compensation * and turn it on.
2- on the top left of the screen you see one clock inside one circle. Click on it and it turns orange.
problem fixed