Visuals (meters) and Sounds Out of Sync

[Scott Kendrick]

In one of my projects my visuals and sounds are out of sync. Visuals being like EQ meters etc... the meter shows the kick drum hitting then maybe a quarter second later I hear it. I'm using ASIO with my Scarlett 2i2, I've tried playing with the buffer size... wehther 5 or 10 msec, no difference. Normally I mix around 10-12 msec and don't have an issue.

Any suggestions?

[reginaldStjohn]

Sounds more like a video card issue then an audio issue. Don't know how to fix it but you could try rebooting your computer, updating your video driver or see if there are some video card settings you could play with.

[Scott Kendrick]

maybe... but it's the sound that's delayed, not the visual. everything else is in normal time - e.g. like my mouse clicks, and I need to double check, but pretty sure the meters on console are in sync, it's just every plugin. I'll check for video driver updates. I first noticed this with Melodyne where the sound was well behind the cursor.

[Xoo]

Check there isn't a plugin which is introducing latency (and likely then not reporting it properly).

[Shane Taylor]

I ran into same problem working with Reaper, and later discovered that it was my Bluetooth headset I was using introducing the lag... duh. Just in case... 😉

[Scott Kendrick]

while I have used a bluetooth headset - this is wired connection for both monitors and cans directly to my audio interface.

@Kevin Perry - I have a feeling it is one plugin because it just appeared on this project. Do you think if I just disable the FX, it should fix it for all (as a way of testing, instead of removing the plugin entirely)? I'll start doing some testing - and think about the new plugins I've added - some Izotope, melodyne, come to mind.

[Andres Medina]

On 1/7/2023 at 6:05 PM, Kevin Perry said:

Check there isn't a plugin which is introducing latency (and likely then not reporting it properly).

Some plugins use "look forward" for proper use, as Pro Channel LP EQ and Adaptive limiter. It introduces a delay.

[Xoo]

18 hours ago, Scott Kendrick said:

while I have used a bluetooth headset - this is wired connection for both monitors and cans directly to my audio interface.

@Kevin Perry - I have a feeling it is one plugin because it just appeared on this project. Do you think if I just disable the FX, it should fix it for all (as a way of testing, instead of removing the plugin entirely)? I'll start doing some testing - and think about the new plugins I've added - some Izotope, melodyne, come to mind.

Yep.  That should show it up.  Also, or alternatively, you could temporarily disable PDC globally which should indicate the same, I think.