Audiobox USB

[Oinkus]

 Got a recording interface finally and after much cursing and jumping through hoops I got the 2 DAWs to recognize it and made sounds go into them. Most likely will do a demo with Devin when he shows up and we look at all the stuff we both have acquired since the last time he was here . Hopefully someone around here is a Studio One 3 expert , bunch of crap to sift through to figure out how to do the simple , basic live recording. Grabbed a SM 57 and a fancy Planet Waves mic cable to record amps and acoustics. Progress will be recorded and shared but I warn you it WILL NOT be pretty.

[GoldenVulture]

Good, I don't think I want to hear " Pretty " music. Let there be noise .

Congrats on the new gear.

[Oinkus]

You just have no clue what a god-awful hack I am do you ?

[GoldenVulture]

Apparently not.

[Oinkus]

I can here the mouse through my PA when it goes over words and links with all of this stuff hooked up to my computer . Of course there is also some latency going on that obviously has to be my fault somehow ? I will use that in my first test to make even more delay.

[GoldenVulture]

I can here the mouse through my PA when it goes over words and links with all of this stuff hooked up to my computer . Of course there is also some latency going on that obviously has to be my fault somehow ? I will use that in my first test to make even more delay.

" Buss Noise " which tends to be the result of poor filtering in sound cards. Even good systems produce Buss Noise when you plug into higher volume amplification. If I use the monitor out on my Interface it's pretty quiet but monitored through the PC's sound card there's a lot more noise. None the less the noise is most likely not in your recordings. It's a product of the output.

There should be a facility with your interface to adjust the latency [ input ], this is definitely not your fault, it is inherent in Sound card/interfaces. I obtained a fairly high end Asus Xonar card a couple of years back. It's latency in monitoring is atrocious and non adjustable. It's useless for monitoring live recording.

[Oinkus]

I just made $300 bucks so I ordered a pair of monitors http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio...air?pfm=rv Output will be from the interface not the PC.

[GoldenVulture]

And according to PreSonus

we included an internal analog mixer with zero-latency monitoring, enabling you to monitor recorded tracks and overdubs with no annoying delay time.

[Oinkus]

I read that too , but WTH do you expect from a $99 interface ?

[Dr. Vegetable]

I read that too , but WTH do you expect from a $99 interface ?

Actually, that's a Good Thing.

<science>
Analog-to-digital conversion requires hardware that samples a waveform and produces a buffer of memory containing numbers that represent the shape of that waveform.  Waveforms are processed in chunks, for convenience and efficiency.  Since the hardware has to wait for the entire next memory buffer before it can do anything with the sound in that time region, this creates a delay.  The processor has to wait for, say, a full 1/4 second of audio to come in before it can do anything with it.  And if you want it to then send that same audio back out to a "live" monitor, you will endure another ~1/4 second of buffering on the way back out.  So the "live" monitors would be 1/2 second behind what you just played if they go through an A/D conversion.  Digital systems try to minimize the size of the buffers in order to shorten this delay, but it is always there.

With an all-analog mixer, they can echo the recorded audio back out with (virtually) no conversion delay.  This means that you can actually use it for live monitoring.
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