No PDC
Final Cut Pro Soundtracks Pro Garageband
Pro Tools LE and M-Powered

PDC

Steinberg Cubase 4

Steinberg Cubase SX 2 & 3

Steinberg Nuendo 2 & 3

Logic Pro 7.1 or higher

Digital Performer 4.5 & higher

Pro Tools HD 7 or higher

Ableton Live 5

Cakewalk Sonar 5 & 6

Depending on the host application implementation, the delay

compensation feature may not provi de aut omatic compensation when Duende plug-ins are inserted on s ends, groups, or buses. In this situation, the solution is to manually compensate for the plug-ins.

These explanations of delay compensation apply primarily to playback only.

Compensating for latency in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered

 

Because Pro Tools LE and M-Powered do not feature PDC it

 

must be done manually when Duende plug-ins are used. Due

 

to the use of firewire and the nature of how signals are sent to

 

and from Duende, a l atency is introduced which will delay

 

any audio track, aux input, master fader or instrument track

 

by a specific amount.

 

Tracks that use no Duende plug-ins or fewer than the t rack

 

with the most Duende plug-ins will need to be delayed so that

 

all tracks are in time. Because this latency is reported by Pro

 

Tools it is easily compensated for.

 

Here’s how:

 

The track with the most Duende plug-ins will introduce the

 

most latency, those with 1 or 2 plug-ins will introduce less and

 

those w ith no D uende p lug-ins w ill in troduce no la tency

 

(providing other plug-ins that introduce latency are not used).

 

To find out the latency introduced on a particular track by

 

Duende p lug-ins, go to the c hannel in t he mix er a nd

 

Command/Ctrl+Click’ twice in the green text below thefader

 

(normally showing vol). The value shown (dly) is the latency

 

introduced on that track in samples.

 

Now load the ‘Digidesign Time Adjuster Longplug-in on,for

 

example, a track with no Duende plug-ins. Double click on

 

the delay box and type in the latency value of the track that has

 

the most Duende plug-ins. The track with the most D uende

 

plug-ins and the track with none will now be perfectly in sync

 

on playback.

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Solid State Logic 82S6MC060A manual Compensating for latency in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered, Here’s how