C-Media Soundcard + Guitar + Soft issue

lajos · 06-07-2009, 08:31 AM

Hi!

I have an Ibanez guitar, connected to my PC via Line-in port. The mobo im using is M2N-E SLI, with an onboard usb soundcard C-MEDIA CM6501. Everything works quite right!
But when i'm using softs like Guitar Rig, GTR, Guitar FX (thru asio ofc) or anything similar, i get a very annoying problem, and here it is: If i strum only 1 string, it sounds perfect, but if i strum another one, and the former string is still oscillating, the 2 strings make a mixed noise, which makes impossible to play normally, its like if i try a series of chords, its horrible what noise it makes. So there is no problem at all if only one string is vibrating in the soft.
When no software in use, and the basic line-in sound can be heard, there is no problem at all.
So i assume that it cannot be the soundcard... neither the softs becouse i tried a lots of them, and they all do the same noise-bug when i strum more than 1 string. Maybe the asio driver?

i don't know, please help me...

dduckett · 06-07-2009, 01:18 PM

1) I would update your ASIO driver. Also, you might want to try the following and see if it makes any difference:

Quote:

With GR standalone, you can use Direct Sound, but it is better to use asio :
download asio4all , install it without uninstalling anything, then select asio as the driver type and asio4all as the audio driver in GR (check audio input and output too).

ASIO4ALL

(http://www.nativeinstruments.de/foru...ad.php?t=24619)

2) Not knowing much about your soundcard, I cannot say too much, but I would update the drivers for it too.

My guess, and it is only a guess, is that your sound card may not be able to handle the low latency and so you may need to raise it on your ASIO card (or within the program). Of course, you want the latency to be low, but if your soundcard cannot support it then there will be problems. I know that whenever I try recording, if my latency is too low, then I get bad distortion because the card gets overloaded, and reverb, unfortunately, sends it over the edge. In the same way, when you play the guitar straight through line in it sounds clean because it doesn't have to allocate resources towards adding effects, but when you run it through external software, then it starts to have problems. Again, this might not be the problem.

lajos · 06-08-2009, 09:42 AM

hi,
well i'm using asio since the first time, everything is updated, the problem isnt with that. My card has to support this, cos the latency never goes higher than 13 ms even with a bunch of effects and stuffz (and sounds perfectly). Directly through line in sounds totally clean becouse the sound is completely unprocessed.

06-07-2009, 08:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
lajos Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP, Home Edition no sp	C-Media Soundcard + Guitar + Soft issue Hi! I have an Ibanez guitar, connected to my PC via Line-in port. The mobo im using is M2N-E SLI, with an onboard usb soundcard C-MEDIA CM6501. Everything works quite right! But when i'm using softs like Guitar Rig, GTR, Guitar FX (thru asio ofc) or anything similar, i get a very annoying problem, and here it is: If i strum only 1 string, it sounds perfect, but if i strum another one, and the former string is still oscillating, the 2 strings make a mixed noise, which makes impossible to play normally, its like if i try a series of chords, its horrible what noise it makes. So there is no problem at all if only one string is vibrating in the soft. When no software in use, and the basic line-in sound can be heard, there is no problem at all. So i assume that it cannot be the soundcard... neither the softs becouse i tried a lots of them, and they all do the same noise-bug when i strum more than 1 string. Maybe the asio driver? i don't know, please help me...

06-08-2009, 09:42 AM	#3 (permalink)
lajos Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP, Home Edition no sp	Re: C-Media Soundcard + Guitar + Soft issue hi, well i'm using asio since the first time, everything is updated, the problem isnt with that. My card has to support this, cos the latency never goes higher than 13 ms even with a bunch of effects and stuffz (and sounds perfectly). Directly through line in sounds totally clean becouse the sound is completely unprocessed.