Help (strange retarded recording problem)

[johnscott]

Gentlemen,

Having tried every way I could imagine, I still can't fix this following problem. Let me explain in point form ^^

1. I plug a guitar in (In 1 or In 2)
2. I have prepared a track selected corresponding input
3. and the red RECORD button pressed
4. and I play my guitar
5. the sound respond is around 0.2 to 0.3 second slower than my playing

The strange thing is, actually at the moment I plug my guitar in, there is a sound respond from the monitor connected to my MBox no matter I have made an audio track or not. Such guitar sound is not affected by any plug-ins of course, and it has no delay in responding.

My Yamaha M88 keyboard USB-connected to my desktop has the same problem, approximately the same time interval of delay.The only thing that makes a difference is no track, no sound, of course.

This really isn't affordable cos I have to try for faster playing. Thanks for reading.

[yamlan]

Google (search this forum, and your Mbox manual) the word Latency. In the meantime in Pro Tools go to Setup, Playback Engine and change H/W Buffer size to 128 or 256. It's set to 512 by default.

[albee1952]

The manual is your friend. As is youtube. Read up on the MIX knob and how to use it.

[johnscott]

Originally Posted by yamlan

Google (search this forum, and your Mbox manual) the word Latency. In the meantime in Pro Tools go to Setup, Playback Engine and change H/W Buffer size to 128 or 256. It's set to 512 by default.

Thanks very much. I'm sorry I couldn't access to the internet these days so finally I couldn't reply and say thanks. The problem was solved, thanks to the suggestions.