He then explains his clever workaround for the automation latency: the Nudge command. The arrows show how late the automation was written compared to the snare hits.īecause he doesn’t need sample-level precision for this situation, he chooses 200ms as a rough average of the latency. They vary between 207ms on the high side and 183ms on the low. Because he was moving a fader to write the data, the results aren’t identical for each snare hit, but they’re close. Next, he sets the snare track’s display to show volume automation and looks at where the data was written compared to the actual snare drum hits. Then, he pushes the volume up for each snare drum hit. With the time format set to milliseconds (he could have chosen samples), he puts the automation to one of the write modes (most likely Touch) and as the song is playing back. To do so, Jacquire tests the delay with the following procedure. So, what to do? The first step is to determine the length of the delay so that he can compensate for it. Jacquire uses the faders on an Avid Artist Mix controller like this one to write volume automation.Įven though it connects to the computer over Ethernet, which is even faster than MIDI, there’s so much system delay that his automation moves will be a little late when written to the session. As a result, he’s experiencing latency when writing automation using the Avid Artist Mix, an external mixing controller. Lagging BehindĬhecking the System Delay indicator in the Session Setup window in Pro Tools, Jacquire notices that the mix session for “Keep the Light On” by Oak and Ash has a system delay of 15,632 samples-which is a lot. We see a case in point in this excerpt from Start to Finish: Jacquire King - Episode 24 - Automation Part 1, where Jacquire runs into latency issues when automating volume. Such issues can happen when you have so many plug-ins and virtual instruments open that it overwhelms your available CPU resources and impedes your DAW’s ability to provide delay compensation.
But it can also be problematic when mixing. Most commonly, we think of latency in reference to delays experienced when monitoring during tracking. Latency is an issue that every musician who records digitally wrestles with.
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