recording help needed - recordings playback off tempo

[C.Thep]

i've got the lexicon lambda and i am using cubase le.

i am a total recording noob, help!!! I record a drum track, then guitar track, but when i play it back, the two parts are horribly out of sync.

[Wild_Child]

Are both the tracks live audio, or is the drum track sampled with midi?

It might be an issue with your sample rate. Make sure you have configured your sound card correctly in cubase so you can use it's own ASIO drivers. Go to the set up menu in devices, and make sure it's selected under the vst options, and set the clock source to internal. Restart cubase, and see if it's solved the problem.

[C.Thep]

yes both are live audio


the clock source is internal, and the Lambda ASIO is selected.

i restarted it, but it is still doing the same thing.

[C.Thep]

also, i don't know if this has any significance, i think that it might be a recording issue, rather than a playback issue because the the high points on the wave-things don't line up.

please bear with me, i am just a helpless noob

[yoyo1299]

do you have the tracks aligned properly? like the start of the guitar with the start of the drums?? remember, the start of the recorded track will probably not be when you started playing...

[C.Thep]

yes, i record over the recorded drum tracks while they are playing.

[yoyo1299]

make sure the placements of the tracks are aligned together. play one track with the other muted, then vice versa. make a note of at what time on each track the music starts. then compare notes

[Jamie]

It sounds like for some bizarre reason, the sample rates of the two tracks are different.

An example would be that whatever you are recording the guitar through, is providing a 48khz feed to your sequencer which is set to 44.1. The audio is 'squashed' to fit the sample rate.

When the sequencer plays back, it plays both at the same rate in its eyes, but its resampled one track to make it slower.

If it was this, they would start at the same speed and move out.

Or are they the same speed but out of sync? What is the exact problem? If its this latter, then you are recording with latency which you need to compensate for in the control panel.

Give an exact signal chain and fuller description pls.

[C.Thep]

thanks again jamie, but i already got the problem fixed.

if anyone else has this problem, just make sure to set the CPU setting to a higher setting, or to whatever your computer can handle.

i have a dual processor, so i just slid it all the way up, and it works great now.