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aviationpower

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Sep 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/10/99
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I Have a problem With my Recordings.
I Just cant record wave tracks to go along
with the midi ones.

I Have Sound Blaster Live ( The Full Version )
Please If Anyone Knows How To Make It Work ,
Let Me Know at:
yon...@hotmail.com

Or at this message group.

Thanx.


Unknown

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Sep 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/11/99
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I use Cubase VST 3.7 and SBLive myself (reasonably successfully) and,
given the number of similar questions/problems I've seen and
encountered myself, I seriously fancy putting together an FAQ or
something of that sort to deal with the problems related to getting
SBLive to work with Cubase and other peripherals. Dan Duskin, for all
his knowledge.. (www.studio201.com/cwu/ won't entertain our favourite
card -- don't mean to diss you here mate but there's some horrible
snobbery going on!! .. Always has been in the music business.. We
can't all afford the absolute thing of the moment. I need the likes
of Ian Bland, Lawence Payne and all the rest of my friends here to do
it......Contact chris...@pricey.demon.co.uk

Ian Bland

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Sep 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/11/99
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You need to be more specific. What have you tried? Can you record wave audio
in other apps (try windows sound recorder for instance)?

Ian

aviationpower wrote in message <37D92076...@isdn.net.il>...

jay.b

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Sep 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/12/99
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1. Make sure you use the ASIO MME driver, not DirectX. SBLive can't operate
full duplex otherwise.
2. Make sure sync reference (ASIO control panel -> advanced options) is set
to "sample position - input". Recorded tracks will be out of sync with
existing ones otherwise.
3. Finally, in Creative Mixer, select "line-in" from the drop down menu on
the record section (far left), and set the record level.

You may experience audio-midi sync problems, but I myself haven't gotten
around to sorting this out yet.

Hope this helps. I'm currently setting up my own system with SBLive and VST.
Feel free to email if you still
have problems.

jay.b


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Christian Roth

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Sep 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/12/99
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quoted msg <7rg1us$9ca$1...@plutonium.btinternet.com> from "jay.b"
<ja...@btinternet.com>:

>>
>3. Finally, in Creative Mixer, select "line-in" from the drop down menu on
>the record section (far left), and set the record level.

thanks, jay, for your input.
actually I wondered about a record level for the digital input. do you know
if the digital input really copies the incoming signal 1:1? or is there
some processing involved?

>You may experience audio-midi sync problems, but I myself haven't gotten
>around to sorting this out yet.

have you encountered this problem? is the effect obvious or just sometimes
strange sounding and hard to track down?

cheers,
chris

Ian Bland

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Sep 13, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/13/99
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This issue is now well documented... on this ng at least. The SBLive's
native frequency is 48kHz and it WILL NOT SYNC CORRECTLY AT ANY OTHER
FREQUENCY. This means you need to run all your audio at 48k. The problem
manifests as

a) audio recordings start at successively delayed positions (e.g. the first
recording will be 50ms late, the second 100ms late, the third 150...)

b) audio recordings will be "time stretched" over their length so even if
you sync the start of the recording to the first beat of the song, later
beats will be around 10-15ms/minute late.

It's a bit lame, but not the end of the world, after all 48kHz gives better
bandwidth that 44.1. Just make sure that when you've done your final 48kHz
mixdown you use a good prog to convert it to 44.1 (Wavelab, SoundForge,
CoolEdit Pro etc).

Ian

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David Mason

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Sep 15, 1999, 3:00:00 AM9/15/99
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In article <7rg1us$9ca$1...@plutonium.btinternet.com>,
"jay.b" <ja...@btinternet.com> writes:

> 2. Make sure sync reference (ASIO control panel -> advanced options) is set
> to "sample position - input". Recorded tracks will be out of sync with
> existing ones otherwise.

> You may experience audio-midi sync problems, but I myself haven't gotten


> around to sorting this out yet.

Well, having sample position - input isn't going to help much. You want to
synchronise to tracks that are already recorded. Sample position - output is
the correct setting. Record a 30 second blank track before you record
anything else, as this forces cubase to synchronise to audio before you have
even put anything down.

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