Audio is seriously delayed...Many weeks and still can't fix it????????

[CrAsHhh]

My friend is having a problem that I have not been able to figure out and it is really aggravating me. His wife bought Guitar Tracks Pro 3 for him and then I set him up with more memory and a new sound card. (((all specs are listed below)))

The problem is... no matter what we use to link his guitar or mic (guitar amp stereo head phones jack or effects processor with all effects bypassed) the sound is seriously delayed. But the funny thing is, it is not being recorded delayed. The delay is only heard from the computer speakers. As he is recording over a drum track everything sounds really delayed but when he plays back what he just recorded, it sounds ok.

I have narrowed this symptom down to arming the track. Open GT Pro 3, select track, Playback sounds ok. Arm track to record, now it is delayed. I don't understand how to fix this. We have tried the latency settings, buffer, and everything else that I could think of. There is no good reason why this should be happening. His computer is more than able to run 10 applications of GT Pro all at once!

Can someone please help!?!?!? I feel really bad about this. Thanks… CrAsHhh

HP Pavilion A815n Specs:
Windows XP Home
3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor 519J
160GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA hard drive
>>> 2 Gig Kingston Hyper X (4 x 512 Chips) Cas Latency 2
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 Video Card
>>> Sound Card >>> Audiophile 2496. Which I used for about 2 years with GT Pro 3.

[axe2grind]

Check the audiophiles latency in its control panel....should be set to about 10-20ms for good latency playback, or below if the PC can cope with that. My latency is about 10ms. I reckon the cause of your problem will be that the audiophile has a very high latency...should be setup to a very low or mid latency as above, and you have direct monitoring enabled. I'm not familar with Guitar Track Pro3 but with most recording packages, there is a setting called direct monitoring where you monitor or hear the signal direct from the sound card and not through the software, cause if direct monitoring is not enabled and you have a high latency setting on your card, it will cause very noticable delays.

As I said, I'm not familiar with GTP3 but that normally is the case, from my own experiences.

[Goport]

cakewalk use WMD drivers for best results. It sounds like you are using multimedia drivers - I haven't used GTP but try looking at the soundcard settings from within GTP and making sure you have the correct driver associated and not just a generic one.