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

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 Long’ plug-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
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