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terence1212 
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Joined: December 09 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
 Topic: Recording music on the PC ...Posted: December 09 2008 at 19:19 |
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Hi guys, I have a slightly related problem...much simpler think. Can sombody tell me where the toggle for "Monitor through Live" is in Ableton Live. I keep reading in forums that this is in Preferences>Audio...well, not in mine it isn't. Nor is it mentioned in the manual. I want to set it to OFF and monitor externally. Tada!...zero latency.For years I've used Adobe Auditition/ Cool Edit Pro. That had an "External Monitoring" toggle - but I recently switched to AL as I got into loops etc. I love this program but this issue is driving me nuts!
FYI my interface is a Yamaha n12 firewire.
Cheers in advance,
Terence
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weetabix
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Joined: January 20 2008 Status: Offline Points: 170 |
Posted: October 09 2008 at 00:30 |
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I want to thank all for the advice. I will try a much better adapter if I can borrow one from a mate, just to test the ground issue. By the way I am in China right now and all is weird, electically speaking.
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Dean
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 03:21 |
It could be that the step-down is not powerfull enough for the amp so the loading is causing the output of the step-down to drop below 110V.
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weetabix
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 00:03 |
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It's as if my sound, at different points into the recording, become weaker and as you asked, Yes, the levels drop drastic like. I really think I should get a new system.
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Dean
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Posted: October 07 2008 at 16:07 |
The supply voltage should have no bearing on the audio signals - the step-down is a passive device (ie it's just a transformer)
What you are probably experiencing is an earthing issue caused by the step-down - could you describe the loss in quality a little more - is there more background noise? are the levels lower? |
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mystic fred
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Posted: October 07 2008 at 14:31 |
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don't know, but i have step-up adaptors for a couple of my units and haven't found any loss in quality..
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weetabix
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Posted: September 27 2008 at 23:38 |
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I have another item to discuss, when you are traveling and you encounter 220v vs. 110 v or vice versa there is a weakness in recording results even with a step-down i still have to plug in my 110 amp to my 220 computer there is no other way to address this lose in quality of sound?
Edited by weetabix - September 27 2008 at 23:40 |
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 13 2008 at 04:04 |
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just to add my two penn'orth, i have used various ACID programs for years, including ACID 4 - i have never had any latency issues, though it doesnt need a particularly fast PC to run, i recommend the use of good quality soundcard (M-Audio Audiophile 2496) .
Acid 4 is a brilliant programme - quality and useability is top notch, includes time-stretch and speed change without altering the pitch, and key change which are very useful, and has live input which Reason doesn't have, but the two can be linked together. Since Sony bought the Acid program their customer service has become non-existent, you can't even register the thing anymore, but as i publish the results out to wav/mp3 on another program no problems. the simpler you keep your setup the better i always say.
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weetabix
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 23:36 |
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Eh! Thank you Certif1ed I will follow your advice. It's not looking good. Thanks again.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 08:45 |
That sounds like driver issues - are you using the ASIO driver for your soundcard (and what is your soundcard, out of interest)?
ACID only reproduces what goes into it. I assume that by "sync" you mean audio latency - or do you mean MIDI clock synch?
Neither of those are specific ACID issues (and no, I don't work for SONY
 ). Check out this article: http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/sound/latency1.htm
Which version of ACID are you using?
Hopefully the answers to these questions will fix your issues. Edited by Certif1ed - September 11 2008 at 08:57 |
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weetabix
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 08:15 |
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Well to further whine about this ACID sh*te,It sounds like a tin speaker, and fuzzy at times and it's constantly out of sync. I need to know what I am doing wrong (if anyone has one of these things) and maybe, I hope not, I should buy a better piece of sh*te? Sony doesn't answer my E-s.
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jimidom
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 14:45 |
I don't own Music Studio, but I've been a faithful ACID Pro user for about 5 years, ever since version 4. It certainly isn't easy, but it is much simpler than either Sonar or Cubase in my experience.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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Certif1ed
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 13:12 |
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I've never used ACID Music Studio, but I've used Express, which is OK. It's not particularly "easy", but once you've learned the quirks, I find it the best DAW software I've ever used - and I've tried Sonar, Cubase and many of the other big names. It suits my way of working... I got a 2nd hand copy of ACID Pro v3 on eBay, and it's brilliant - but a friend of mine has v6, which is just superb - you can move takes between tracks, which is the one feature I really, really need.
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weetabix
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 07:21 |
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Does anyone else have an ACID MUSIC STUDIO by Sony? Maybe i bit off a little more than i can chew but when I bought the thing it was cheap and had a picture of this teen w**ker on the box, playing a Strat, I thought it would be easy to operate but it is not .
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Certif1ed
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 09:43 |
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A 16x12 HALF STACK under a 25-valve, 600-Watt Crate Amp.
Sounds like poop, though.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 07:54 |
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^
 what's that ... a 16x12 cabinet?
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Certif1ed
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 07:50 |
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Would you stand 1m away from this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7mvH8wFdE&NR=1
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 07:20 |
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^ the only problem with the generic ASIO driver is that it only supports inputs 1&2 of the Line6 interface ... in order to use the plugin I would need to use direct monitoring of the processed signal, but route the unprocessed signal to the DAW. Well, *maybe* the latency is low enough that I can use the plug-in for monitoring. Maybe if I use headphones ... after all, 1 meter distance between the ear and the cabinet adds approx. 3ms latency too.
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Certif1ed
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 06:34 |
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I've bought the plugin - it's really cool.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 05:33 |
Since you asked: Yesterday I tried disabling multiprocessor support ... but it had a dramatic impact on overall performance. I used the Ableton Live Suite demo project, which utilizes several software instruments and audio effects ... apparently they're each running in separate threads. It was amazing to see (with multiprocessor support enabled) how small the performance impact really is ... I'm tempted to buy the Gearbox Plug-In and record the guitars dry, so I can tweak all settings (except choice of pickup of course) after the fact. |
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