Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 problem - recording 1 audio track

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:09 pm

Hello,

I am using cakewalk home studio 2002 to record my guitar through a microphone that is plugged directly into the sound card in back of my pc and there is some sort of problem because when I play the track back the pitch and tempo of the guitar is distorted. I recorded a short 50 second track and made it into an mp3 file so you can hear what I am talking about. I uploaded the file to the site below:

http://www.mediafire.com/?dd4gtevsqzt

I don't know what is causing this problem and I would really appreciate any help that somebody could provide. Keep in mind, I am a newbie in terms of knowledge of audio recording. Here is some info about my PC that I hope will be relevant and helpful in diagnosing this problem:

OS: Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE

Audio Options from Home Studio 2002:

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:26 am

Have you tried changing the bit depth setting. Now it looks partly 16 and 24 bits. I think they should all have the same setting, most propably 16 would work best. Also, change the sample rate to 44100Hz as 48kHz may cause problems when mp3:ed.
Normally you shouldn't have the read and write cache boxes checked. Try uncheck them and see what happens. You can also move the buffer size slider to the right a little bit and see if it's any help.
A right combination of these changes should do the trick. I hope...

What I don't know is how your (seemingly) aged software handles dual core processing.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:56 am

Imu2002,

I made the recommended changes and it appears to have solved my problem! Thanks so much, I have been trying to solve this problem for weeks now and it has been driving me crazy.

Bob

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:25 am

I hope it will stay that way.

Isn't this what this site is all about...

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