Latency issues!

Hey folks !

I have just installed Cubase 14, which is working well apart from a latency issue that I’m having. There’s probably a simply fix for this but the owner’s manual just confuses me. CAN somebody help me out and tell me how I can fix problem !

Hi,

Ensure the Constrain Delay Compensation is disabled, please.

I’m sure Martin wanted to say enable if you want to temporarily avoid high latencies.
Bottom left of your project window:

The most common reason for a high latency are plugins, e.g. Limiters. If you are curious which tracks have a high latency open your mixer window and have a look at the buttom end of the track:

If ypou can’t see this display click on the top right of your mixer window:

If you use Control Room and have some plugins inserted into the control room inserts then that can cause real latency - depends on the plugin. I had to remove the plugin from the control room insert - just turning it off wouldn’t get rid of latency. OSX.

As already answered to your old thread, turning off removes latency, bypass does not.

If you bypass a plugin, the signal is still going through the plugin, only the output isn’t switched. Turning bypass on and off doesn’t force the engine to recalculate the latency, but the to disable a plugin means turning it off completely.

The implementation of the bypass is in the responsibility of the plugin vendor. Super Vision is an excellent example. It has no bypass. But you can disable it. That is implemented from the host.
The plugin window offer both functionality, disabling and bypass side by side…

Actually no.

I confirmed this. It happend with a couple of plugins.

The worse ones was ADPRTR Streamliner and ADPTR Metric A|B (both are great so I just remove them for recording)

there was noticable latency with they were inserted and turned off.

The latency went away immediatly when they were removed.

Sorry, sometimes computers don’t do things the way they should.

TBH, it works as I wrote above. Deactivation cancels latency, bypassing doesn’t.


enabled!


disabled!

Deactivating had no effect on my system, only removal

MacMini M2Pro OSX 14.6.1

Proof?
Open the plugin window, deactivate the plugin and show the latency measurement.
The mixer doesn’t offer the deactivation as a button. You need to use the plugin window or the ALT/OPT switch.

Dude

I aint lying and been doing this a long, long time.

I ain’t lying.

Not sure why this is such a big deal to you. Kinda weird.

I’m not your dude.

Sweetie?

I don’t know about Streamliner, but here Metric A|B only reports one sample of latency, which isn’t really noticeable.
And if I disable high latency plugins on the control room, the latency definitely goes down (I do that regularly with wit constrain delay compensation, as I have Sonarkworks on it, which has ~17ms latency).

Do you maybe have multiple control room channels active and still some other plugin with latency on another channel? Because the latency of the control room is determined by the channel with the highest latency, even if that channel is not active. This is on purpose because it makes switching between different CR channel seamless.