(quantized DAW arranger) Is anyone having latency issues?
I'm sometimes noticing latency in the cellos and basses on totally quantized material. It's hard to tell if this is just psychoacoustic because lower frequencies have to cycle longer in order to be heard, or if it's legitimate latency. Also, these libraries so heavily depend on great convolutions and so that's another factor to weigh in. I definitely notice lessened delays when bypassing my preferred conv. verb (Waves IR1 in my case) but I still notice a relative latency with shorter notes in the cellos and basses vs strings.
When programming straight quarter notes at approx 86 BPM, I'm finding myself correcting the basses and cellos about -25ms (on top of the conv reverb insert which I correct by a further -12ms (just to match the DAW click)) without even touching the V1-V2-Va tracks besides the entire IR compensation.
Would love to hear what you guys are doing about these things. I personally use a largely non-controller workflow so I'm constantly working with DAW&Midi&Mouseclick&That's It, so esp. those who identify with a similar workflow I'm especially interested in hearing from.
P.S. Yes I've been checking CCs 26&27. They certainly help in the amplitude shaping but really don't have an effect on what I'm talking about, as far as I can tell.
Comments
" I definitely notice lessened delays when bypassing my preferred conv. verb"
This should not happen with "quantize" (i.e stored rather than played live) content, as any DAW is supposed to use PDC (Plugin delay Compensation) to automatically compensate such effect.
This seems to be a hint for some kind of undetected setup problem.
-Michael