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Full Plug-in Delay Compensation
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quite matching up with the audio, it’s the nature of Logic’s
AAllll
compensation
mode.
Finally, you need to be aware that Apple designed its
AAllll
plug-in delay com-
pensation mode as a “mixing” mode. Since Logic advances the audio
streams in order to maintain sync, if you attempt to record audio or MIDI
while in
AAllll
compensation mode, you may run into problems, depending if
you have instantiated any delay causing plug-ins. If you are using plug-ins
that cause delay, Logic will advance the audio to compensate for the delay
during playback—so when you record, you will be listening to audio that is a
number of samples advanced from the original song start point. This means
that your recorded performance will be “off the grid” by the number of sam-
ples the audio stream was advanced. If you then subsequently change the
amount of delay compensation that Logic is doing by adding, exchanging,
or removing delay-causing effects, the originally recorded tracks will be
automatically compensated for this change in delay…but the audio or MIDI
you recorded to the previous level of delay compensation will be out of time.
There are two techniques to get around this limitation. The first—and sim-
plest— is to keep plug-in delay compensation set to
AAllll
, and simply never
record any audio or MIDI once you start inserting plug-ins that cause delay.
This has the advantage of being 100 percent foolproof, and allows you to
leave plug-in delay compensation set to
AAllll
. Of course, if you like to record
and mix as you go, this may require an unacceptable change in working
methods.
The second technique is to keep plug-in delay compensation set to
AAuuddiioo
TTrraacckkss aanndd AAuuddiioo IInnssttrruummeennttss
until final mixdown. This compensation method
does not advance tracks to keep the audio streams in sync, but instead
applies a negative sample delay to those regions that have delay. This
means that in
AAuuddiioo TTrraacckkss aanndd AAuuddiioo IInnssttrruummeenntt
mode, you can still record
and everything will be in sync. A limitation of this technique is that you can
only insert delay-causing plug-ins on Audio Tracks and Audio Instrument
tracks until final mixdown, but this is better than no channels being delay
compensated at all. Logic tries to make this technique as easy to use as pos-
sible by including key commands to switch between plug-in delay compensa-
tion modes, so you don’t need to break your workflow by mousing around in
the Audio Preferences window. And at least we finally have a full delay
compensation mode for mixdown!
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