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irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 3:22 pm

So, the past few projects I've done have been recording straight into Waveform (13). Was still adjusting to minor things, but today something major stopped me in my tracks (no pun intended).

Having not changed anything, today the recorded tracks kept coming in a beat late on playback. I re-checked the audio set-up in settings. Was fine. Went ahead and turned off live monitoring just in case. No go. Restarted my PC. Nope. Even reinstalled the software. Nothing.

It's not latency. Again, I didn't change any settings with respect to that -- and it had been working and recording just fine until today. But it was always a beat late coming in, which made recording additional tracks impossible, since I like to emphasize the first beat.

Any suggestions/thoughts?

talby · Post by **talby** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 3:35 pm

2 beats or 1 bar are the smallest values which can be set for the count-in of a click. But 1 beat? No idea.

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 6:13 pm

The only time anything like this happened to me was caused by a plugin that audio was passing through. Disabling the plugin put everything right (it was a reverb plugin or something like that).

But I imagine you'd remember if you recently added a plugin between the last time it worked and this next time that it didn't.

Is it just this project? Or can you replicate this on other projects?

irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:13 pm

Watchful wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 6:13 pm The only time anything like this happened to me was caused by a plugin that audio was passing through. Disabling the plugin put everything right (it was a reverb plugin or something like that).

But I imagine you'd remember if you recently added a plugin between the last time it worked and this next time that it didn't.

Is it just this project? Or can you replicate this on other projects?

Hmm...not sure. Put all my gear away for the day, but will try it in different projects in the morning and give you a heads-up.

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:42 pm

Not sure if it's the audio interface. There are a couple of places latency could be introduced. Interesting that it's off by 1 beat, though. That's weirdly specific.

I wonder if that's coincidental. Changing the BPM of the metronome would confirm that.

Peter Widdicombe · Post by **Peter Widdicombe** » Mon Apr 06, 2026 11:26 pm

This is audio or MIDI? What is the reference you're adding on top of (i.e. a click track or loop)?

For some reason, and I don't remember setting it, somehow my audio offset had been set to something unexpected; and the only thing I could think of that I thought I had changed was the input gain on audio...

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 12:53 am

I presume it's audio, knowing a little about how Tony records. If it's MIDI, though, that's a different animal and might be some quantization setting that's too rigid.

irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 9:33 am

Yeah, it's audio. Playing an acoustic guitar into an SM58 into a Behringer UMC204HD.

I'm using Waveform's default click, emphasizing the 1.

irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 10:33 am

Okay, so I just went back in and tried it. It does that now in all projects.

Don't get it. Like I said, I left all the settings on the Behringer the same, the audio settings in WF the same. Not sure what's the issue.

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 12:21 pm

It's not the metronome, is it? Is it clicking on 2 or 4, throwing you off? I recall you saying the recording is off when you're recording and you can hear everything.

If it happens now in any project, that tells me it doesn't matter what the project BPM is set to...it's consistently off by one beat. That rules out a lot...such as the driver or audio interface.

Weird thought, but what happens if you record without the metronome and instead use a Tony-made click track?

irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 4:32 pm

Watchful wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 12:21 pm It's not the metronome, is it? Is it clicking on 2 or 4, throwing you off? I recall you saying the recording is off when you're recording and you can hear everything.

If it happens now in any project, that tells me it doesn't matter what the project BPM is set to...it's consistently off by one beat. That rules out a lot...such as the driver or audio interface.

Weird thought, but what happens if you record without the metronome and instead use a Tony-made click track?

All right...

I'm embarrassed to say, but when I reset both the input and output devices within WF's settings area, that fixed it.

I'm so sorry, guys. But I do appreciate y'all brainstorming the problem with me.

I was able to do all my desired tracks for this project this morning.

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Tue Apr 07, 2026 4:44 pm

Wow. No apologies needed. What caused THAT?!?

I frequently need to reset my devices from WF as well--or I get a build-up of static on some takes and not others. But your situation is totally new to me. So glad you got that sorted.

Now more than ever I wish I could assign a hot key to the ability to reset input and output. It happens a lot.

Also glad you got all that work done!

irpacynot · Post by **irpacynot** » Wed Apr 08, 2026 12:49 pm

Watchful wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 4:44 pm Wow. No apologies needed. What caused THAT?!?

I frequently need to reset my devices from WF as well--or I get a build-up of static on some takes and not others. But your situation is totally new to me. So glad you got that sorted.

Now more than ever I wish I could assign a hot key to the ability to reset input and output. It happens a lot.

Also glad you got all that work done!

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