USB mic delay

sonnecheinspak wrote on 11/7/2013, 12:35 PM

I am using Magix Music Maker 2014 with Windows 8 x64, 6GB of DDR3 ram, and the onboard sound card (not sure how to acess what kind of sound card it is). When I plug in my USB mic, it works perfecty with no delay at all, until I start Magix. Magix is creeating the delay, and prohibits me from doing any recording of my own voice or guitar.

I have followed the program's suggestions and tried switching drivers, and I have played around endlessly with the "Recording Device" and "Playback Device" settings in my laptop. Nothing is working. What do I do? Magix is pretty much useless to me if I con't record my own music with it!

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gandjcarr wrote on 11/9/2013, 8:48 AM

Hi,

If you are expecting music maker to behave as a DAW (digital audio workstation) such as Cakewalk, PreSonus Studio, Acoustica Mixcraft, Sony Acid Studio or any of the other DAWs out there, you have probably chosen the wrong product.  It was not really designed as a multi track studio recorder or workstation with multiple live external inputs.  You can use MM to do this but it really has some limitations in terms of how it performs versus dedicated DAWs.  Also, USB is probably the worst way to input instruments into any DAW because it is the slowest form of communication between a computer and an external device, especially if you are not using USB 3.0 because this method of communication has definite latency issues.  Firewire is faster and has better stability and less latency and PCI is probably the most stable with the least latency.

George