[Ardour-Users] input monitoring

David Adler david.jo.adler at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 12:44:29 PST 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Wayne <wayne at in-giro.org> wrote:
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>> Il giorno mar, 10/01/2012 alle 14.29 +0100, David Adler ha scritto:
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>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Wayne wrote:
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>> >     but one thing to keep in mind that may be an issue: buses have no
>> > latency compensation.  if u put the plugins for the logical track on the bus
>> > like i do, you may hear some latency that you will need to adjust manually
>> > (right click on region, region-name->Nudge->move backward by capture
>> > offset).  again, not a big deal, but something to be aware of.
>> >
>> Thanks Wayne, I'll consider that, when arrived at that point.
>> It's not entirely clear to me what 'latency' is in this context -
>> is it latency a bus with plugins introduces wrt. a bus without
>> plugins?
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>>     the bus latency issue confuses me too, but i have seen some odd
>> latency showing up in places when i use a bus in my "logical track" setup ..
>> or more likely the latency is always there, but i only notice it sometimes
>> ;)
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> a bus only has latency if it is running plugins that add latency (typically
> things like reverb, FFT-based EQ, and so on). the signal flowing through the
> bus will be delayed relative to the signal not flowing through the bus.
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> if this was done in a track, we would delay all the other tracks so that the
> signals all stay perfectly in sync. but when it happens in a bus, ardour
> currently does nothing to correct the delay.
>

Thanks Paul, this information very much enables
to predict the latency situation of different setups,
good to know.



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