>>There is no excuse for software that doesn't compensate all of the latency for trackplug-ins All you need to do is offset the playback of the track. No DSP is needed at all.<<
Of course you have a point and I am waiting for a solution like everyone else, but that only solves half the problem : How do you deal with plugins auditionned live ?
- If you are recording drums and EQ ing on the monitoring, a very common configuration in pop rock studio work, you are stuck unless you want to shift brainwaves in the musicians heads...
- The whole point of TDM is beeing able to work like on a mixing board, something native systems have problem with. They have to resort to all kind of tricks like direct monitoring which is often confusing things even more
To me 3 or 4 samples like good recent plugs is ok and if I really need precise phase relationship then time adjuster will do the trick most of the time.
I have a hunch however that the main reason for the delay compensation not beeing implemented yet in TDM has to do with compatibility with pre-PCI old hardware.
Mark Haliday