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Gah, I want an 8-track. With Cubase I get a delay and it makes anything over a single track impossible.

Or I could just get a reel-to-reel tape recorder and do it old skool style. :>

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That sounds like a latency issue. You'll want to get hold of a soundcard/audio interface that will shift the processing off the onboard soundchip and will reduce the delay to a few milliseconds. If you want some suggestions I can point you in the right direction.

i take it you've not seen her laptop :>

regardless, a decent USB box with ASIO drivers can produce some unexpectedly good results on shit hardware! Generally with such a box, I find CPU utilisation levels during recording to be about 5-15% over what they would be otherwise on a dodgy consumer-grade PCI* connected soundcard , but the latency is still sufficiently low to be able to shred (to say hemidemisemiquavers at 140+bpm) on guitar listening only to the output from a VST plugin, done in realtime, while recording.

ASIO drivers are fantastic.

I did mean a specialist audio card with all the bells and whistles such as ASIO, but forgot :)

Nope :)

even the latest laptops with asio driver built in soundcards have crap latency. a dedicated usb or firewire soundcard will give better results.

they range from about £60 to £200 for a cheap one and in this range quality is about proportional to price.

My first one cost about £120 (Edirol UA-25) and was really good (except a bit of hiss on recording but I think that was interference from my laptop) If you get an M-audio one then in theory it will also work with some pro-tools software.

what laptop is it anyway?

the same overheating (usb1) celeron that struggles to play ageofempires2 she's had for years :)

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