SculliD Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Plug-in Delay Comp. I'm wondering when to shut it off and when to use it and why? Please enlighten me. Thanks very much! Peace, Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Hi Kevin, that's quite a broad subject. Basically you usually want PDC set to 'All' when mixing, and play with the two other settings (depending on the situation) when recording. Have you read what the manual has to say on the topic? --> Working with Plug-in Latency Compensation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanviewstudio Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 My understanding is this: The PDC takes the latency informations from all channels and performs the delay time, advancing a stream or delaying it, to put all streams back into sync. (1) PDC OFF - Audio only - Mixing and playback without plugins This is a rather rare case, say your project has audio files only on the tracks with no plugins inserted, or aux busses used to send effects - I believe aux busses themselves do not induce latency, so for grouping purposes alone, no PDC is required - In this case I would shut off PDC, as there are no latency inducing plugins. (2) PDC ALL - Audio and/or Plugins - Mixing and playback with plugins As David said, use this mode for mixing or playback. Interesting side Informatiom - Hat tip to Steve Horelick -Bypassing inserts on the output bus and aux channels in ALL mode does not bypass the latency of those plugins. (3) PDC Audio and Software Instrument Tracks - Recording You could call this the recording mode. Here PDC is not applied to Aux and Output channels but the payback of your virtual Instruments and pre recorded audio such as apple loops. However, note that using inserts that induce latency in this PDC mode must be bypassed. (4) Low Latency Mode - To be used in combination with (2) ALLmode only This can be activated from your transport bar and reflects the limitation setting as seen here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4914840/lowlatency.png It basically applies the bypass as described in All mode, and selectively bypasses inserts on your instrument channels, selectively according to the limitation setting. So in this case, any plugin that induces more than 9ms latency will be bypassed, and displayed in orange on your list of insert plugins. Hope that's all correct... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SculliD Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 Wow! Some much to take in! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceanviewstudio Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Wow! Some much to take in! Thanks! You're welcome, I am just learning all this myself, it is daunting at times, you understand one thing, and it trails 10 more questions behind. Then again, there is only one way to eat an elephant.... A spoon at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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