Playback error

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March 5, 2018
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I am new to Adobe Audition CC 2018. I am recording vocals in a multitrack session with an instrumental. When recording with my microphone, I can hear the music in the headphones that are connected to the microphone when I record my singing so I know it matches. But when I am listening to what I recorded, the vocals do not match up with the instrumental. Is there anything to do to correct this? Why doesn't it match up?

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Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

One thing I've noticed is that you are using the MME driver (in the device class setting). Do you have any other options available, like WASAPI? That would be worth trying, as MME is getting a bit long in the tooth now... You may also want to try setting the latency figure somewhat lower, and see if that makes any difference too.

JaiPriceAuthor

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You were right. It was latency issues. Once I change the latency to a lower setting, it synced just fine.

But the issue with MME over WASAPI. I changed it to that option and it made my voice sound robotic. Not sure why. I probably need better hardware and software. I appreciate the help and I can't wait to keep playing around with this so I can create some great music.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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Ideally you need an external USB-connected sound device with an ASIO driver - there are plenty of these around at a variety of price points. Using ASIO makes everything a lot smoother, as it bypasses most of Microsoft's OS layers of bloatware between you and what you want to achieve.

JaiPriceAuthor

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When I tested it out, it seems that there is about a 1 second delay. So maybe that's the issue??? But how would I fix it so I can actually record a whole song and hear it beforehand so I can edit it before I export it. Sorry if I'm not explaining it better.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Correct answer

Community Expert

One thing I've noticed is that you are using the MME driver (in the device class setting). Do you have any other options available, like WASAPI? That would be worth trying, as MME is getting a bit long in the tooth now... You may also want to try setting the latency figure somewhat lower, and see if that makes any difference too.

JaiPriceAuthor

Participant

I am using an Audio Technica ATR2500-USB. I plug my headphones into the microphone and plug the USB into my laptop. I import my instrumental into a multitrack track 1. Then I record my vocals on track 2. When I hit record on the vocal track, I hear the instrumental through the headphones and I sing to the instrumental into the microphone.

But once I play it back to listen to it, my voice is a few seconds delayed from the instrumental

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

JaiPrice wrote
But once I play it back to listen to it, my voice is a few seconds delayed from the instrumental

On the face of it, that doesn't sound like latency at all - we'd be talking milliseconds, not seconds.

If you just record your voice on a track, how long does it take the waveform to appear on the screen? And just to be sure, could you provide us with a screen-grab of your audio hardware settings in Edit>Preferences?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Fundamentally this is caused by latency. Assuming you've got a music track recorded in Audition and that's what you are listening to, then you have an immediate conflict - this track, in order to be played back to you, has to pass through a buffer which evens out the feed of it from your hard disk. So when you are recording a new track along with this, the feed to your ears is delayed by the size of the buffer - usually some milliseconds, and if the buffer is very large, quite enough for you to perceive a delay, although normally this is compensated for...

But you said "I can hear the music in the headphones that are connected to the microphone when I record my singing so I know it matches." Can you tell us a bit more about your set-up?

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