Multiple Source Recording In Cakewalk
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Posted on Sep 18, 2002 11:21 am
mlachin
Member Since: Sep 18, 2002
I'm having trouble recording live drums into Cakewalk Pro Audio 8. I have 5 inputs (kick, snare, stereo toms, and overhead) on 3 different interfaces (Echo Gina 20, Turtle Beach Montego II and the on-board sound on my motherboard.) For some reason, when I record, the program will start and stutter, and when it stops recording on its own, there are no waveforms created in the track view and there is no "recording" listed in the history folder. Check out my profile for my setup. I have all the latest drivers installed for each sound card and I'm not sure if this is a limitation in the software or if I'm putting too many eggs in one basket by recording on 3 different sound cards at once. If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
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Sep 18, 2002 11:44 am I strongly assume that it is due to you recording from 3 cards at once, 2 of them being less-than-optimal for recording at all. Do this, try running all five track into a mixer (if you have one) and panning them across the stereo field to retain some stereo imagery and record the whole kit into two tracks using your Gina (kickin card, by thew way, I had a for a while), if that work, then run everything but the kick and snare into the Gina and try to run the kick and snare into your opposite sides of your Turtle Beach and see if that works, if it does, leave it that way, you are best off not using the onboard sound card at all, assuming it's a typical AC97 codec or something like that.
Also, considering the system power it probably takes to use 3 cards at once, you might be well served by bumping your system up to at least double the RAM you currently have...at least...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Sep 18, 2002 09:06 pm I can tell you that dB is very correct. I have tried running a SB card along with my Delta, and they do not play well together. Now an the other hand, playback is tight and locked on sync perfectly when they run together. But as far as recording goes, that is a no-no. It drive's window's nut's, as the card's try to sahre resource's and window's does not no how to handle the overload.
