Software Amps in Garageband...

[loudriver23]

I'm pretty new with compu-recording, but I have been messing around with Garageband. I had a buddy with an M-Audio FastTrack Pro USB not Firewire sadly.
I don't have the ability to record my main rig (Bassman), so I've been using the included amps provided within Garageband. While they don't sound too bad, I've been noticing however a bit of lag for lack of a better word.
As I play a note it sounds a milli-second after I've struck it. Not horrible mind you, just annoying enough to have me ask the question.
Are there some setups I'm not thinking about?
I've looked through the basic setup options listed for the M-Audio box.
Oh, I have a 1 year old MacBook Pro with the beefier video card, and 4gb of ram.
Is this just the nature of the digital recording beast? Or is there a setting somewhere I've overlooked to improve this?
Thanks in advance,
Louis

 

[Left_Hand_Strat]

Re: Software Amps in Garageband...

could just be the nature of the beast.

what i tended to do was set up the software amp, put my headphones on listen to see if the settings were right, once that was done, headphones off, and i just hit record and played cause listening whilst recording did my nut in anyway, lol

 

[loudriver23]

Re: Software Amps in Garageband...

could just be the nature of the beast.

what i tended to do was set up the software amp, put my headphones on listen to see if the settings were right, once that was done, headphones off, and i just hit record and played cause listening whilst recording did my nut in anyway, lol

I should try that, thanks for that advice. It does however feel much different to play an electric without any kind of "Amp" feedback. Maybe I should just get an attenuator for my bassman and mic it up.

 

[some_dude]

Re: Software Amps in Garageband...

Most USB interfaces have a headphone jack that's meant to mitigate the lag.

 

[woemoejack]

Re: Software Amps in Garageband...

yes, either use headphone out on the maudio box or play without the amp plugin turned on, record dry, then apply amp plugin afterwards.