Creative 1820M Cubase VST or Cubasis, PatchMix, Delay Compensator Use, Delay Units Parameter

5 - Effects

E-MU E-Wire VST

Currently automatic delay compensation is supported by the Steinberg 2.0 family (Nuendo 2.x, Cubase SX 2.0, Cubase LE 2.0,), Magix Samplitude 7.x, and Sonar (using the Cakewalk VST adapter 4.4.1), but not by Steinberg Cubase VST 5.1 and Cubasis.

The E-Delay Compensator utility plug-in is used to manually compensate for the transfer delay for hosts that DO NOT support plug-in delay compensation.

The E-Delay Compensator plug-in is used to delay the “dry” tracks (tracks without a PowerFX or E-Wire as an insert effect) or auxiliary (send) channels. For each dry track or send, add an E-Delay Compensator plug-in to re-align the track. The E-Delay Compen- sator is automatic and requires no user interaction to operate.

For example, consider a Cubase VST session with two audio tracks. If PowerFX or E-Wire is applied as an insert effect to the first audio track, but not to the second, the first track will be delayed in relation to the second track. The E-Delay Compensator should be added as an insert effect on the second track in order to provide delay compensation.

Cubase VST or Cubasis

Track 1	Track 2
Insert	Insert
E-Wire	E-Delay

Track 3

Insert

E-Delay

PatchMix

DSP

E-Delay Compensator Use

For host applications that don’t support automatic delay compensation.

1.An E-Delay Compensator should be used when unprocessed audio tracks are played alongside tracks using a PowerFX or E-Wire plug-in.

2.Simply insert an E-Delay Compensator into each track that doesn’t use a PowerFX or E-Wire send.

E-Delay Units Parameter

The Units value in the E-Delay dialog box should be set for the number of times you send ASIO down to the PatchMix DSP mixer and back in a single track. A single PowerFX insert chain with any number of effects only requires one delay unit because there was only one trip to the hardware and back. If you use two Cubase inserts in series on a track both using PowerFX or E-Wire, you would set the number parameter to 2 on all other audio tracks. Each trip down to PatchMix DSP and back to Cubase equals one unit.

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