Setup guide
Appendix E: DSP-Induced Delays in Mixing 93
To bypass the user delay:
Start-Control-click (Windows) or Command-
Control-click (Mac) the User Offset field. The
user-defined delay appears grayed out and does
not apply to the track.
Track Compensation (cmp) Indicator
This indicator shows the amount of Delay Com-
pensation Pro Tools applies to each track.
The display color indicates the amount of Delay
Compensation applied, as follows:
Green Track compensation is enabled and the
track does not exceed the Delay Compensation
limit. The amount of Delay Compensation
shown in the indicator is applied to the track.
Blue (Audio Tracks Only) Indicates that Delay
Compensation is force-enabled on the track.
When the track is record-enabled or TrackInput-
enabled, Delay Compensation is not suspended
and remains enabled (see “Overriding Sus-
pended Delay Compensation” on page 94).
Red Indicates that the track delay exceeds the
available amount of Delay Compensation and
no Delay Compensation is applied to the track
(see “Delay that Exceeds the Compensation
Limit” on page 93).
Gray Indicates that Delay Compensation for the
track is bypassed and no delay is applied to the
track.
Delay that Exceeds the Compensation
Limit
When the total delay on a track exceeds the to-
tal available amount of available Delay Com-
pensation (selected in the Playback Engine dia-
log), no Delay Compensation is applied on that
track. Any audio on that track will no longer be
properly time-aligned and will be out of phase.
Both the Delay indicator and Track Compensa-
tion indicator turn red to show that the track de-
lay exceeds the Delay Compensation limit. The
maximum available Delay Compensation is ap-
plied to all other tracks.
However, you can manually compensate for de-
lay on tracks that exceeds the Delay Compensa-
tion limit.
To compensate for delay that exceeds the
compensation limit, do one of the following:
If the Delay Compensation Engine setting in
the Playback Engine is set to Short, change the
setting to Long.
– or –
If the Delay Compensation Engine is already
set to Long, do the following:
• Bypass the reported delay for the track by
Start-Control-clicking (Windows) or Com-
mand-Control-clicking (Mac) the Delay in-
dicator. The track information is grayed out
once it is bypassed.
– and –
• Manually nudge any audio data on the
track earlier by the amount of delay re-
ported in the track’s Delay indicator.
Low Latency Monitoring During
Recording
When an audio track is armed for recording
(record-enabled), TrackInput-enabled, Destruc-
tivePunch-enabled, or punched in, the track’s
Delay Compensation is automatically sus-
pended (and the Track Compensation indicator
displays 0). This provides low-latency monitor-
ing on those track outputs.