I recently purchased Cubase 13 Elements and a Focusrite Scarlett Solo, for recording vocals.
When singing, the audio qualit of what’s played back, is very bad. It’s lacking mostly the low frequently sounds and my voice sounds tinny and thin.
When recording my vocals and listening to them after recording, they sound as they should.
When I go into Studio Setup and below Audio System select the Focusrite → Control Panel and change the buffer size to 1024 or 2048, the audio quality increases to great or amazing respectively, but as expected the latency is horendous and makes singing impossible.
The performance seems good (this is while playing a song and singing along):
I’m using Cubase on a Macbook Pro with an M2 processor and 16GB of RAM.
So my question is: Do you guys know of any settings in either Cubase or in MacOs which I could change to improve Cubase’s performance and thus the audio quality?
The audio quality is not affected by the Buffer Size at all.
Please consult the Focusrtie manual on how to use Direct Monitor with your hardware. Then doesn’t enable the Monitor button in Cubase, while recording. This way, you will get direct monitor through Focusrite (the signal will not go to Cubase, thru the Track/Channel and Out), so you will not get any latency on the recorded Track.
I know that my FocusRite has a direct monitor button, but that way I can’t put any effects like reverb on compression on my monitor. Which is exactly what I want
In this case, make sure, the Direct Monitoring is disabled, please.
How does it sound like, if you use Constrain Delay Compensation? I know, you will not get the plug-ins on the channel anymore. I’m wondering if the sound is OK if it goes through Cubase.
