Latency compensation

[keysson01]

Hello on my Mac Pro ultra m2 I have a problem with latency compensation. I use 5 or 6 plug in and it’s already not capable of doing latency compensation
What could it be ?


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[Sardi]

What plugins?

Do they happen to be restoration plugins?


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[jeff markham]

May I ask what you mean by "it's not capable of doing latency compensation"?

Protools does delay compensation to make sure that all of the audio
arrives at the same time when summed. The plugins determine what
that delay is (in terms of the processing).

Like so:
Track 1: Plugin-A 10ms delay
Track 2: Plugin-B 5 ms delay
Track 3: Plugin-C 25 ms delay

Track 3 is the "longest delay path", so PT will add 20 ms delay to
Track 2 and 15ms delay to Track 1 . so the audio all arrives at the
same time.

The overall latency contributed by the plugins will be 25ms.

The other factors that lead to latency are the hardware buffer size and
any hardware inserts that you have (and the inherent latency of whatever
converter(s) that you're using).

Protools can't compensate for latency of the plugins themselves .. the
plugin authors and the processing that they do determine that.

So .. given this .. first thing . . make sure you have Delay Compensation
enabled.

You might be able to reduce the overall latency by reducing the hardware
buffer size. But, the smaller the buffer size, the more CPU you'll need.

Another thing to look into is the "Low Latency Monitoring" option..
which effectively bypasses the plugins when you're in record mode.

If you really want zero latency plugin processing, you're going to have to invest in
some HDX hardware, Universal Audio, Waves boxes, etc..

I'm not runnning Apple Silicon .. are you running Protools under Rosetta? That's another set of issues.


jeff