[ardour-dev] Send Delay

[Jan Depner]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:26, Paul Davis wrote:
> >   If Ardour does adjust for plugin latency, and I'm not at all sure
> 
> it does, but only for plugins that declare latency. for LADSPA, that
> means they use an ad-hoc convention that myself and swh dreamt up, but
> i think tom szilyagi follows as well, of providing a control output
> port called "latency" that provides the current value. for VST
> plugins, ardour uses the value returned by getInitialDelay().
> 
> >it does, it certainly doesn't adjust for external apps or external
> >physical reverbs, compressors, etc.
> 
> ardour will attempt to compensate for the latency inherent in the
> signal routing, but it cannot compensate for latency hidden by the
> destination (in this case, within Jamin)
> 
   Correctomundo!  JAMin is not a plugin and is not designed for
realtime work.  It is a mastering tool for use post time.  I doubt if it
will ever be made into a plugin as such (at least I think that was
Steve's stand on the matter :)  It's pretty complicated internally.

Jan