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Dealing with plug-in delay and latency

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Dealing with plug-in delay and latency

Latency or delay can occur when using certain plug-in processors, especially ones that use look-ahead technology like auto-tune and many brickwall limiters. Sometimes this latency is only a few samples and doesn't cause you too much trouble unless you need absolute phase accuracy, let's say in parallel processing scenarios. While others create so much delay that you may experience rhythmic inaccuracies or flaming in a mix. First, I want to show you an example of where this delay comes from and how it can affect you in your mix. If I take this Loop track, let's listen. (music playing) And just for the sake of this example I'm going to go ahead and duplicate it. So I'm going to right-click and choose Duplicate, just one. What I have here are two of the same track and when I play this back it should just be louder. (music playing) So they're both perfectly in phase, in sync, no latency or delay is being added to either one. Now let's say I place a plug-in like an EQ, and turn off my…

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