Monitoring while recording

[BassPlayer]

Question: How many people use input monitoring as opposed to direct or hardware monitoring? When recording. Thats what it's called in Sonar. I don't know what it's called in other DAWs

[NickT]

I use input monitoring if I am doing midi tracks with soft synths or guitar tracks with guitar rig.

I try to do that early on and freeze the tracks while working.

Otherwise, it's all direct.

 

Nick

[BassPlayer]

So Nick you have the same card as I do. What kind of mix latency do you have when input monitoring?

[NickT]

I think 5.8 with wdm drivers. I can get it down to 2.something if I mess with the buffers or go asio. But the machine gets goofy and unstable at that.



Nick

[BassPlayer]

I have a 3.2 Ghz system and can do 2.7 with 128 byte buffers. Ands it's fairly stable. But I think I'm going to do direct since I think the delay was messing with my head.