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Configuring the Playback Engine

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Configuring the Playback Engine

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to keep your system responsive and to control latency. Now this is especially true when the session work involves tracking or monitoring live input. on a system's native processing. To adjust the hardware buffer size, choose setup, What that means is that tracks that are playing back from disk while the tracks that are receiving live input as defined by the hardware buffer setting you select here. So tracks in the low latency buffer zone, And then we can increase it as needed. So I'll generally choose a setting of 64 samples as a starting point, of 64 samples as a starting point, and see how that works out. Now, the trade-off is the time allocated Now, the trade-off is the time allocated for plugin processing on those tracks. for plugin processing on those tracks. When you're using a lot of plugin processing in a live signal chain, you may get errors. in a live signal chain, you may get errors. In that case, you'll have to either In that case, you'll have to…

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