Hi, Two questions for you experts in Logic's plug-in delay.... 1. Does this mean that currently busses and auxes in Logic Pro 6, even using standard Logic plugs, are regularly introducing delay? So that if I use Space D or platinum verb or compression or Ad-limiter or whatall on a buss, I'm screwing with the relative positioning of my audio tracks in the Arrange, and that this will continue through a bounce or mixdown? Or does this problem only hold for non-native plugs? 2. What's the relationship of the audio preferences "plug-in delay compensation" to all this? Is it native plugs, or non-, or both? Should it always be activated? Why not if not? steven rowat

On Oct 2, 2004, at 3:54 AM, steven_rowat@... wrote: > Hi, > > Two questions for you experts in Logic's plug-in delay.... > > 1. Does this mean that currently busses and auxes in Logic Pro 6, even > using standard Logic plugs, are regularly introducing delay? So that > if I > use Space D or platinum verb or compression or Ad-limiter or whatall > on a > buss, I'm screwing with the relative positioning of my audio tracks in > the > Arrange, and that this will continue through a bounce or mixdown? adlimiter will definitely screw your timing if you put it on a buss as will the new linear phase EQs and some other stuff. > Or does this problem only hold for non-native plugs? Though I am not sure that all plugs add delay there are a significant number of native plugins that ad delay. For example anything at all that has look ahead will add delay. So basically don't think you are in the clear just because you are only using native plugs. > 2. What's the relationship of the audio preferences "plug-in delay > compensation" to all this? Is it native plugs, or non-, or both? > Should it > always be activated? Why not if not? Keep it on always, there is basically *never* a reason you would want to turn it off. That the factory default is "off" is one of those deep mysteries like "where does the other sock go?" and "who was on the grassy knoll".

dennis gunn <dennis@...> writes: > Keep it on always, there is basically *never* a > reason you would want to turn it off. There is a reason to turn delay compensation OFF. If you are opening an old project that was done without delay compensation, you probably want it to sound the same especially if you already did some manual delay compensation (by sliding the regions earlier, or putting delay compensation plugins on tracks without the latency). > That the factory default is "off" is one of those deep > mysteries A default of OFF makes perfect sense as people were transitioning from Logic4->Logic5 etc.... However, as time goes on there will be less and less reasons to ever turn it OFF. I guess the entire discussion would have been moot if this was a SONG SETTING and not a GLOBAL PREFERENCE. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>