14 Feb
2016
14 Feb
'16
9:45 a.m.
On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 20:17 -0600, Brett McCoy wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Sheeler
<dsheeler(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Perhaps we should add, that this does not work for virtual synths, or if
the musician is dependent to hear the long-sustain-over-overdrive-delay-
wah-wah-virtual-amp-plug-in during the recording. A hardware monitoring
done by a sound card or by a mixing console allows to hear the already
recorded tracks + the signal of what you want to record directly, so you
can monitor already recorded virtual synth and already recorded guitars
using the long-sustain-over-overdrive-delay-wah-wah-virtual-amp-plug-in,
but you cannot monitor virtual synth and such guitar plugins without
latency during recording them. You only can monitor the clean guitar
signal and external synths without latency while recording them and
after that, when playing hear the guitar + plug-ins and virtual synth.
What does it mean for a soundcard to provide
hardware monitoring?
And when you monitor a recording, don't you want to hear a signal
coming from the DAW instead of bypassing it or something? I'm just
generally confused about what is meant by HW monitoring :D.
Hardware monitoring is definitely a good thing, especially if you are
recording from external sources to existing material. If you have a
vocal or an instrument being recorded, you want the hardware to send
the monitor signal back out rather than route into the software and
then back out, that introduces latency and additional resources on the
CPU. A good sound interface with zero-latency monitoring usually
provides some sort of mixing interface for the hardware so you can
create a monitor mix of the pre-recorded material coming from the DAW
and the incoming live audio.