Re: Cakewalk sequences are speeding up when slaved to a Fostex D-108, and the audio is making chipmunks out our music...

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Posted by Stef on August 31, 2003 at 21:38:54:

In Reply to: Re: Cakewalk sequences are speeding up when slaved to a Fostex D-108, and the audio is making chipmunks out our music... posted by Jeremy D. on August 31, 2003 at 20:21:46:


Yeah, I've tried the tempo ratios thing already, thinking it might have something to do with that. All it did is now s l o w down the recording; meanwhile, it's still the same problem with the sequences playing back at double speed.

I've found one neat solution though: the recording part I'm doing right now with Cool Edit Pro, afterwards importing to Cakewalk.
There's some eyeballing to do though, because the live drums in the rough take I did this afternoon seem to drag just a teensy-weensy bit compared to the sequenced drums.

The other thing I'm going to try is to do it all in Cool Edit Pro, and just work with the whatever functions best.

Love, hate... why am I in this business?

: No experience of your hardware setup, but here's one possibility: in Cakewalk you can set different tempo ratios. In my version (an old one, CW Professional 8) this is in the Tempo group of toolbar buttons. 2 is standard, 1 is half speed, 3 is double speed, IIRC.

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: : I'm having two different problems which are essentially the same:
: : #1 - When CW is slaved to my Fostex D-108, the sequences speed up, with the tempo in double time. This happens regardless of whether it slaved via midi or mtc.
: : #2 - When I try to record to CW (instead of using the blasted D-108), the recording is twice the speed. We're an industrial techno hard core band, and sounding like a bunch of chipmunks on acid isn't too inspiring.
: : The soundcard being used is an M Audio Audiophile 2496; I work in a music store and my colleagues told me this is the one to get for Cakewalk if I only need 2 ins/outs for audio... however, my computer wouldn't recognize the first 2496 I purchased, and now (after six months relatively problem-free) it seems to be doing anything I put into it while using Cakewalk at double the speed.
: : If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, let me know. Post a message here, the guys at work are interested in hearing what the other users think.


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