A dealer I am working with is saying that using hardware inserts in DAW’s with A/D conversion affects phase coherency. Is there a scientific basis for this? I “ping” my hardware inside Cubase and don’t hear discernible phase, but is it there?
Thanks to anybody and all who share their opinion.
How often should one ping outboard? At the beginning of the session? As more plugins, processors are used? And
when you save a project, does it save the ping so to speak, or do you need to ping every bit of outboard every time you open your project?
But… if I change my routing (which I do) and then re-patch, when I setup the original routing and hardware, I ping again, usually getting the same ping time!
I don’t worry too much about the odd .1 or .2 of a ms
Ping measures the roundtrip of the signal from Cubase - D/A - Ext. FX in - External FX out - A/D - Cubase. Which should stay constant until you change the buffer settings of your soundcard, or any setting inside your external FX that changes processing time in any way.