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2012/07/05 22:42:08 (permalink)

input monitoring

input monitoring allows me to hear the fx & there's no feedback, but there's a significant delay. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/05 23:33:55 (permalink)
    Lower your latency. This is done if you have a WDM driver via the latency slider in Preferences audio or with your ASIO driver's buffers setting. 

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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/05 23:35:41 (permalink)
    It depends on a lot of factors.

    You have to set your sound card buffers as low as possible, use ASIO drivers if your sound card has them, depending on how fast your system is you may have to freeze or archive as many tracks/synths as possible.

    Other than that, there's not a lot you can do.

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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/06 09:28:33 (permalink)
    Don't forget, your Fx plugins also have a certain amount of built in latency which you can do nothing about.

    Depending on the plug, this can range from totally inconsequential to a royal PITA.

    What are you trying to do exactly? 
    If you're mixing, latency is irrelevant. 
    If you're tracking, bypass your Fx globally if the tweaks suggested above by AT & John still cause problems

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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/06 13:48:33 (permalink)
    OK thanks. I'm just trying to sing with some reverb, but I can use outboard reverb if I can't get the latency low enough.
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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/07 13:19:05 (permalink)
    Alternatively you can MUTE the track (with input monitoring still clicked) then set your FX send to PRE, Then monitor your DRY signal Direct from you soundcard's mixer. No latency direct monitoring, with a pre-fader input sending to your reverb. Slightly delayed reverb won't bother you when your tracking.
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    Re:input monitoring 2012/07/07 14:57:56 (permalink)
    Latency shouldn't really be a problem if it's just reverb - think of it as kind of 'free' pre-delay

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