Latency after recording

There is a big latency after I record audio (it is shifted in time), low latency mode helps to avoid it, but I can't remember to turn it on and off for recording and playback every time. I/O also can't be low — a lot of stuff in this project.

 

Any salvations? Ideally if low latency mode would turn on automatically while recording.

Low latency mode is expressly for monitoring—doesn't affect the results of the recording. When you say I/O can't be low, are you referring to your buffer? That's likely where your answer is.

Low latency mode is expressly for monitoring—doesn't affect the results

 

of the recording. When you say I/O can't be low, are you referring to your buffer? That's likely where your answer is.

Yeah, it does, try recording in a heavy session

 

Gotta solve a riddle to find the answer?

No no, my point is that Low Latency Mode does not do anything to the recording signal flow. It simply bypasses plug-ins that introduce latency so the input can be monitored more directly, but what you’re hearing is monitoring, not the recorded file.

 

If Low Latency Mode fixes the issue for you, then decreasing the buffer is your solution. To free up resources to that end, you can bypass effects, or freeze or bounce tracks in place, or even deactivate them, depending on what you have going in your project.

Update, I used 64 buffer size and froze most of the tracks and there is still big latency after recording.

If you have latency-inducing plugins everywhere, and you wanna record, there's no other way than bouncing in place and remove the latency inducing plugins, in my experience.

I think you might find that it's easier to just shift the audio after you've recorded it. This is what I find myself doing even when I'm printing midi-generated virtual instruments to audio.