FJ Lamela Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Hello and thanks to all member of this forum. My question is simple. There is any way to know how much latency added the total plugins in the project?. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 (edited) in general, you need to know the "maximum" or "largest" latency which is used by the DAW to then set it across the board so everything plays in sync. so if i have only a single track with 5 plugins and none of the other tracks have anything on them, all the tracks will use the latency reported from that one track to set the overall latency so everything plays as expected. e.g. if that one track plugins add 10ms of latency, then all other tracks will be delayed by 10ms so all tracks are playing at the same time. (this is a simplification since internally i'm sure exactly what is happening but the effective results is the same). note that # of buffers used, as well as the sample rate will dictate the overall latency of the chain. CbB has a button "PDC" (plugin delay compensation) which if you turn it off will (should?) remove the compensation added based on what CbB determined based on the latency reported by the plugins etc. this (to me) should identify which track has the most because it will be out of sync. so you'd want to measure the latency of the tracks (or busses) to see which one has the most, and then how much latency that track (or buss) has. one way (manually) would be to use something like https://www.voxengo.com/product/latencydelay/ and pick a track with nothing else on it and adjust the time/samples until it aligns with the longest track. or try out https://www.kvraudio.com/product/vst-plugin-analyser-by-christian-budde some references on internal latency in a DAW: https://www.macprovideo.com/article/recording-and-production/understanding-plug-in-delay-compensation https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010545559-How-Latency-Works https://www.16sounds.com/blog/zero-latency-plugins/ Edited February 20, 2021 by Glenn Stanton 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJ Lamela Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Thanks for the info. Anothers daws,show you the latency added by the plugins in a easy way,next to bpm or sample rate (for example). Calculate manually with voxengo or similar is so hard and have so sense to me. I think is so ease put Pdc (number)at some position in the screen by the daw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 yeah, it would be nice to have the full latency total for a given track and by plugin in a small display or metric popup... hmmmm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJ Lamela Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phillips Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Dumb question: For mixing, why should I care as long as PDC is working? What am I missing? I think it would be nice to know what it is but I don't understand a need to know. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno de Souza Lino Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 13 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said: Yeah, it would be nice to have the full latency total for a given track and by plugin in a small display or metric popup... hmmmm Like Cubase does for its console strips? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.r Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 and maybe some estimate of the CPU usage for the plugins/synths so we could get the first suggestion from our DAW what plugins to freeze first, not that it's crucial but could be handy... sorry for off topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJ Lamela Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 On 2/21/2021 at 1:36 PM, Bill Phillips said: Dumb question: For mixing, why should I care as long as PDC is working? What am I missing? I think it would be nice to know what it is but I don't understand a need to know. Thanks. Sometimes knowing it can be useful if you are recording (traking)for example a guitar or a vocalist and there is a plugin that is introducing a lot of delay in the chain. Or for example when you have to play a vst synthesizer in real time and some included effect causes a lot of delay in the chain, you can change it for a lighter one. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phillips Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 hour ago, FJ Lamela said: Sometimes knowing it can be useful if you are recording (traking)for example a guitar or a vocalist and there is a plugin that is introducing a lot of delay in the chain. Or for example when you have to play a vst synthesizer in real time and some included effect causes a lot of delay in the chain, you can change it for a lighter one. Thanks. Makes sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJ Lamela Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 Thanks to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 2/21/2021 at 4:36 AM, Bill Phillips said: Dumb question: For mixing, why should I care as long as PDC is working? What am I missing? I think it would be nice to know what it is but I don't understand a need to know. Thanks. No, not for mixing. One of the reasons other DAWs report latency numbers is that certain other DAWs didn't use to have PDC, requiring the user to figure how much compensation was needed. Cakewalk was among first to make PDC a standard feature on an affordable DAW, instead of a premium feature you paid extra for. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phillips Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 10 hours ago, bitflipper said: No, not for mixing. One of the reasons other DAWs report latency numbers is that certain other DAWs didn't use to have PDC, requiring the user to figure how much compensation was needed. Cakewalk was among first to make PDC a standard feature on an affordable DAW, instead of a premium feature you paid extra for. Bingo! Thanks for the refresher. That's what I was thinking. Cakewalk was the first, or near the first, for so many important features and functions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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