Q:Steve H Master Class 1 Plugin Delay Compensation
Feb 25th, 2010, 02:10
Hi Folks,
I think this may be my first post here, so apologies if it's in the wrong section. I was watching the master class videos yesterday and was so glad to see a section on the plugin delay compensation settings in Logic as they have always confused me slightly. Perhaps I missed something, but the setting Instruments and audio tracks, as Steve says does not compensate for bus or aux tracks? So what happens if you are using a multi out instrument that makes use of aux tracks? Are these not compensated for? It's kind of a non question I guess as I tried it briefly yesterday and it all seemed 'tight' when using multi instrument outs (although it was a very basic project). If I had a project that was say near completion, eg I had started mixing but decided to add some more parts, would it be best to leave the setting to 'all' and use the low latency button instead of switching to audio and instrument tracks? I suppose what I'm really trying to ask is, if I have finished a mix and want to lay vocals over it that will be recorded as tight as possible, what are my best options with regards to these settings? I'm guessing pdc to 'all' and make use of the low latency button? Or bounce the track to stereo and track over that perhaps and bring them back into the project? Also, there is no reference (as far as I can remember!) to the setting in ms of the LLM, I see it is default at 5ms in Logic. Does this have any relation to the buffer size settings? I realise that any plugins with a latency above this setting are disabled, but for the sake of recording vocals does this setting affect that or not? Sorry if thats a lot of questions, perhaps I have the wrong tutorial! Many thanks for such great clear and concise videos though. I have learnt so much from these great Steve H tutorials and look forward to purchasing more in the future.
All the best,
Adrian.
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