Setting record delay?

[Vid_Wegner]

Does anyone know what the ratio of samples to microseconds is in logic when setting the record delay in audio preferences?

 

If not, could anyone throw me a number they use so that the very beginning of an incoming sound doesn't get snipped if I want to punch in and am snapped to a 1 on the click track?

[Eriksimon]

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As the manual says: you should normally not need to touch this parameter.

http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=44%26section=4%26tasks=true

 

Example ratio of samples to seconds is given by the inverse of the sampling frequency: 1/44,100 seconds per sample at 44.1 kHz = 44.1 samples per millisecond.

[Vid_Wegner]

Well, I see that I shouldn't have to worry about actual information delays, it's recording it where I tell it to and for all intensive purposes, when it is actually happening, otherwise that would be a direct latency issue.

When I want to do a punch in for a particular note, I have noticed that the humans I'm working with tend to jump the gun a little bit and I will lose the first rise/attack of the incoming audio. It makes it sound as if it's just popping on out of nowhere; it's very unnatural. What I've been doing is setting the playhead to maybe an 1/8 or a 1/16 note ahead of where I actually want the punch, so that I capture that tiny little bit before.

I guess I'm more looking for a way to just have logic capture a couple of milliseconds before hand so I don't have to fuss with it.

[Eric Cardenas]

The Recording Delay slider is there to help you compensate for any mismatch or anomaly not reported by the CoreAudio driver of your interface.

Some manufacturers will not report the correct round trip latency to Logic.

Or you may use a complex ADDA chain with separate ADC, interface and DAC.