What's a good, intuitive free recording software?

[RaceU4her]

Ok I downloaded the driver from Asio4all and still getting latency, because this stuff is all greek to me lol If I knew the name of the problem I'm having I may be able to watch a video on how to fix it.

go into options, then go down to preferences, click on "device" under the Audio part, youll see a box that says "request block size", make sure this is at 32, its probably at 256 or something which is gonna cause latency, at 32 it should be good

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Ok, so a guy on FB helped me figure out the big phase/delay issue I was getting. When I open Reaper and have no tracks inserted, it plays great. The second I add a track, even w/o recording, instant phase/delay issues. I clicked the speaker icon to get rid of monitoring and BAM! Instant clean sound just as if I was playing through my combo amp only. Now, I just need to figure out how to tweak the monitoring function at least, because don't I need that to play an already recorded track in the background while I record a 2nd track for harmony/solos?

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Fuck recording, I'm going back to just forgetting riffs and shit.

 

[IHateRap]

Doesn’t the 2i2 have direct monitoring?

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Doesn’t the 2i2 have direct monitoring?

It's got a button for it on the front that has 1 circle, 2 circles overlapping, and then neither selected, but I dunno what any of that means.

 

[IHateRap]

It's got a button for it on the front that has 1 circle, 2 circles overlapping, and then neither selected, but I dunno what any of that means.

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en...5-Scarlett-1st-2nd-and-3rd-Gen-Direct-Monitor

 

[Matt300ZXT]

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en...5-Scarlett-1st-2nd-and-3rd-Gen-Direct-Monitor

So with that mumbo jumbo/greek stuff in that article, is that suggesting that having the on-board interface monitoring turned on could probably be the cause of some of the phasing/delay I'm getting and I should turn it off?

 

[dead-pan]

Bandlab Cakewalk for me.

 

[IHateRap]

So with that mumbo jumbo/greek stuff in that article, is that suggesting that having the on-board interface monitoring turned on could probably be the cause of some of the phasing/delay I'm getting and I should turn it off?

Use direct monitoring on the interface. The input (you) will go directly to the outputs (monitors/headphones). Turn off input monitoring (software) in your daw.

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Bandlab Cakewalk for me.

Cakewalk seems SOOOOO much better, at least for my level of understanding. I recorded a simple track once I figured out how and there is absolutely zero latency at all. Seems like the factory settings are much better suited for what I'm doing. Now to just figure out how to record a 2nd track while playing the first track as a backing track to solo over.

 

[dead-pan]

Cakewalk seems SOOOOO much better, at least for my level of understanding. I recorded a simple track once I figured out how and there is absolutely zero latency at all. Seems like the factory settings are much better suited for what I'm doing. Now to just figure out how to record a 2nd track while playing the first track as a backing track to solo over.

Just hit the record button on track 2 and unchecked it on track 1.

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Just hit the record button on track 2 and unchecked it on track 1.

Holy shit dude, that's very easy. Thanks for the help!

 

[romanianreaper]

Cakewalk seems SOOOOO much better, at least for my level of understanding. I recorded a simple track once I figured out how and there is absolutely zero latency at all. Seems like the factory settings are much better suited for what I'm doing. Now to just figure out how to record a 2nd track while playing the first track as a backing track to solo over.

I used Cakewalk back in the day but I love Reaper. I recorded tons of songs and put them up on Bandcamp years ago and had a blast doing it. I use EzDrummer 2. I haven't recorded in years but going to get back i to it soon I think.