I must be STOOpid! Wanna Help?

[midlife]

What a challenge I've created - and all I wanted to do was lay down some bass and drum backing tracks, practice vocals and guitar (then erase before playing "live)

So I bought an Alesis Multimix 8 USB - came with Cubase LE
Have an Alesis SR 16 on channel 5/6 ( I can hear itin headphones through the mixer so I know it gets that far, and see levels on the mixer)

PC is XP Vaio Multimiedia Desktop - Pentuim 4, 1.5GB ram - Mixer connected to USB.

Can't hear or record any thing through the PC - or "see it" in cubase when I start a project - been through the tutorials - still I'm STOOPID.

(scary thing is I'm in the technology biz - and used to do a little 4 track tape editiing - so far that was easy in comparison)

[midlife]

Ok -

Set the VST multichannel to ASIO Direct X full duplex - then to control panel USB Audio in and Realtek HD audio out - works! But loads of delay triggering drums - and no way could I play bass and use the speakers as monitors - is this normal?

Now I wanno gro from Dumb to "a little slow"

[brandondrury]

But loads of delay triggering drums - and no way could I play bass and use the speakers as monitors - is this normal?

It's normal when you use the stock soundcard as your output. I've seen those have 250 ms latency. Set your Alesis audio interface/mixer as the output and make sure your latency is set fairly low (but not too low, this will cause clicks and pops).

Brandon