Please explain what this button is on the instrumental track. I always have it on. I have not seen any information about this function anywhere. Do I need to turn it on if I use VST3 instruments?
The latency is the delay due to processing time required by ASIO to produce audio from your tracks. If the latency is low, you won’t notice it. If it is high, you may. Probably important if you are playing along with tracks and things aren’t lining up. I’m not a good player, so I don’t know if the ‘offset’ is me or the machine! I just fix it later.
Do you notice things are out of sync?
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Thanks. I noticed that I have it enabled on all my instrumental tracks. Is there any point in this? Or should I disable it?
Are you experiencing any issues? If not, leave it alone!
In general, there are no problems. It’s just that this function is not specifically described anywhere and in what cases to enable it on instrumental tracks.
Anything that is monitored through the DAW…so for all vsti…but only if you look to maintain the human timing…if you always quantize it makes no odds.
So if you play a piano along to a metronome for example but the onset of the note is heard 4ms later than you hit the key due to latency, you may begin to advance your playing to make it sound in time with the metronome.
But then Cubase compensates for that 4ms latency by advancing the midi on the timeline (which it needs to do for other cases ) and Cubase compensation combined with yours is then too much and notes end up ahead of where they were played.
So by enabling this option (which disables that compensation) you should theoretically get a result closer to what you played. In practise it can not be perfect as it can’t know how much you will subconsciously advance your playing to compensate.
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Can VST3 tools make a delay? As I understand it, it should always be disconnected?
I don’t know what vst3 tools is/are.
Vst instruments)
Sorry, I don’t understand the question…you need to hear your vsti while recording so not sure how you can disconnect it (or disable it?)
There are controls on the instrumental tracks, one of them is a delay in compensation. By default, it has always been turned on. Is it worth it to turn it off on all tools?
Well I explained already exactly what it is for and what it does.
So no, I would not disable it if I was monitoring that instrument through Cubase while recording. I would disable it if I was monitoring an instrument directly while recording.
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