Thanks for your quick and well answered reply, musicullum - this is very good support!
I understand that this is a Cubase/Nuendo topic instead of a VST connect problem.
To the details:
There should be an option to switch behaviour of delay compensation for realtime audio input.
This would be perfect and solving the problem, highly appreciated proposal.
However, delay compensation is quite a complex beast to tame, so it must be done with great care and that may last a while…
I fully believe that and will be patientThanks a lot that you are taking care of this topic (again, as it seems!).
One thing to add, though :
talking about “live signals” (like singing into the mic during playback at the studio side) sounds like a harder requirement than we have so far, since we currently talk only about prerecorded midi tracks routed to external gear (and never playing midi live at the same time). So in contrast to live input, the playback engine already knows which midi needs to be sent to the external gear. This at least should ease the requirement for instruments that produce their sound only from the received midi (vocoders with real time mic input might be a counter example IMHO).
So for us it would work to:
- either make delay compensation for live audio inputs toggeable (audio track related)
- or just sending the midi to external gear earlier than to internal plugs, again by making this behaviour toggeable (midi track related)
Just if the second option should be much easier to realize. Your proposal sounds more attractive, though.
I tried to do exactly this by using a negative midi track delay in the inspector, but this resulted in chaos (the external instrument always played different note pitches then, not understood why, but 100% reproducible). In contrast to delaying the VSTi plugs, this time with the positive track delay, which worked well (but had the outlined drawbacks, being just a workaround).