Delay Compensation Nightmare
 

Hi there,
running HD 10.1.0/hdx (couldn't update to later versions because of interface issues, not the issue here. actually tried 10.1.1 before but had to revert.)

Been mixing for about a month on different projects.
Now one particular project at 96k comes back with phase issues, hollow sound etc.
Delay compensation is not in the red, but sound is changing back and forth.
Lots of hardware inserts, parallel compression, subgroups etc. Never was an issue with TDM, and hasn't been while I'm mixing these particular songs.

Just now trying to recall and ALL six songs show same behaviour, even on different earlier versions of the session so it's probably not a corrupt session.

Tried external clocking, internal clocking, loop sync, eliminating interfaces, word clock cables and digicables and seems to not fix it, so I believe it's in the software.

Reaffirming word clock setups in session setup window sometimes helps for a moment, then drifts apart again.

Reinstalled 10.1.0, still there.
Tried different buffer sizes, processor amounts etc.
Trashed prefs etc.

Will try 10.1.3 in a moment, but was wondering if anybody has seen this?

Thanks

Re: Delay Compensation Nightmare
 

A friend was having a similar problem. He found that an inactive track that HAD and assigned output seemed to be the culprit. He says that whenever he makes a track inactive, he first sets the output to "no output" and this seems to eliminate this problem.

Re: Delay Compensation Nightmare
 

Thank you!
I'll try that.
Anybody else seeing this?

Re: Delay Compensation Nightmare
 

I've seen this too. Very obvious when you've got parallel processing going on.

Restarting the computer has cleared this up a few times for me.

Re: Delay Compensation Nightmare
 

I've seen this problem. Changing the buffer size got it for me.