Adobe Audition Mix > Smart Input: Monitors the input only when you record a track.To set the monitoring type choose Options > Monitoring and select one of the following: If the delay is too long, it's possible you're limited to monitoring External inputs only.
Sound cards with high latency drivers cause a significant delay between what is being played and what is being monitored. Sound cards with low-latency drivers should perform equally well using any of the three monitoring methods. For more information about monitoring, see the "To hear inputs with effects applied to tracks" section of the Adobe Audition User Guide.
Selecting the proper monitoring type can help to avoid possible problems with driver performance. It's also possible that you require a new sound card with low latency device drivers (for example, an ASIO sound card).Īdobe Audition features three possible types of monitoring for the incoming audio signal. If the device driver for your sound card does not allow a low enough latency, then it's possible that you can't monitor while recording. Although buffer settings (see step 8 below) can help reduce latency, the design of the hardware device driver and the amount of effects processing can potentially make monitoring difficult (or unusable).
Latency over 10 milliseconds can produce an audible delay between playback of existing tracks and monitoring. In Adobe Audition, this discrepancy in playback delay, between existing tracks and monitoring inputs, is where latency is most noticeable. Existing audio (audio files already on a track in the Multitrack) doesn't exhibit the same amount of latency since the tracks are already digitized. Each of these steps contributes to the audio latency, which is measured in milliseconds (ms). Then it's converted back to analog form at the sound card outputs. The audio signal is digitized, routed through Adobe Audition, and processed by any effects applied. Adobe Technical Support can use this information to better assist you, if you call.Īudio Latency is the time that an audio signal takes to pass from the sound card input to the sound cards output. Record the tasks you perform and the results of each, including errors or other problems. To benefit most from this document, perform the tasks in order. It could be the only application that is memory-intensive or processor-intensive enough to expose the problem. Although some problems occur only when you work with Adobe Audition, Adobe Audition isn't necessarily the cause.