I think that in rewriting DP in Cocoa, MOTU has made it much faster, and possibly have eliminated as many layers as possible between MAS and Core Audio. From then on, all you need to do is save your existing mix before switching.Īs for your question, 'how does Logic do it?' I don't think any of us really knows what makes the difference, but my suspicion has always been that it's because DP uses its own audio system, MAS, while Logic and most other DAWs go straight to Core Audio and Core MIDI. Remember when you go to make a new mix, if you haven't already turned on the mix feature, DUPLICATE your existing mix and name it. I usually keep it bare, or with a little plate reverb if that's crucial to monitoring the sound. This mix will have either no plugins or none of the sort that override auto delay compensation. Maybe that's no longer true, and I'm just working in old-fashioned ways without knowing things have changed.) Anyway, the trick is to use a separate mix for recording. Since it's a look-ahead feature, delay compensation doesn't work (or so I've read somewhere and experienced. Those throw the mix off by approximately 80ms in the case of the Waves 元. I do remember one which I still use when I need to record something after I've already done some mixing and have a lot of plugins running especially the gas-hog mastering plugins with look-ahead features. (Dual Duo, actually) It's been so long since I dealt with it that frankly I don't remember the tricks I used to maximize performance.

Somewhere back there, a buffer of 256 became quite usable for tracking, and yet I can set it for 128 or even 64 without blowing the hubcaps off of my quad CPUs. There have been huge gains in DP 6 and 7. The last version of DP in which this was an issue for me was maybe version 5 or 5.13. Killahurts wrote:Why is it that Logic is so snappy about this, and DP handles it so badly? I don't really want to use Logic if I can help it (don't even really want to learn it), but I have to use what works. Why is it that Logic is so snappy about this, and DP handles it so badly? I don't really want to use Logic if I can help it (don't even really want to learn it), but I have to use what works.Īny suggestions (other than turning off everything in my whole computer for a modest gain)? but lately I've been doing a lot more ITB VI production, and the latency is just killing me.

When I'm recording in and out of my digital console, this is not a factor- I can leave DP's buffer at 1024 and have processing/plug ins for days. Of course this puts a big strain on my processing power. Even when I set it to 256, it's still not as good as Logic- I have to set DP to 128 samples or less before it even becomes usable. When I switch to DP, the latency is terrible. I notice that its buffer is set (by default) to 256. When I play VI's in Logic, it always seems practically instantaneous, even drum sounds from a keyboard.

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