Latency? digital mixer.

If I'm playing guitar or singing through a digital mixer (adat lightpipe to PC), monitoring the guit or voc input and the output of Sonar from the mixer, and have a bunch of latency compensating plugs active in sonar, what is happening to the part/s I am recording from the dig mixer (voc guit)?

Are they going to be recorded late? Or, is that all somehow compensated by Sonar and the audio card (RME)?

Thanks

If recorded via a regular audio interface the audio would be fine - time will be correct even if the monitoring is a little delayed. But I've not tried via  adat. Perhaps you can try to record with metronome and then turn on metronome at playback and see if there is any delayed on the recorded audio ?

I'm not sure I'm understanding the question entirely? You're using "latency compensating plugins?" The way most DA hardware works... you send signal to Sonar, but use the DA's own monitor for the active input signal... Sonar sends the tracks already recorded to the DA hardware in real time and your hardware mixes that with your input signal. The actual recording of your new signal is delayed, not the playback from Sonar. Or more to the point, whatever you hear coming out of your DA is what you're playing to and what your recording will sync to when it's finished. Unless, of course, Sonar is using the wrong delay time, but this is unlikely if you used the Audio profiler.

I'm not sure which digital mixer you are using, I use a Yamaha 01v for input to my audio interface and monitoring playback, It's latency is said to be under 2ms so I have never noticed any tracks being out of sync. Easy to test , just re-record a drum track via the DAW output back to the mixers/ interface combo input and zoom in on the transients and see if they line up.