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UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 53 - Using UAD Powered Plug-Ins
Solution: Send the output of the unprocessed instrument tracks (but not the
horn tracks or the Precision Limiter return) to a different group/bus, and put
one DelayComp with a Plugs value of 1 and a Sample value of 64 on this
group/bus that contains the dry non-horn tracks. If you put 2 Precision Limiters
stacked in series on the horn bus, the unprocessed bus DelayComp Plugs
value would be 2, and the Sample value would be 128.
Here’s another example with the same situation, but with a session sample
rate of 96kHz. Solution: Send the output of the unprocessed instrument tracks
(but not the horn tracks or the Precision Limiter return) to a different
group/bus. Insert one DelayComp with a Plugs value of 1and a Samples
value of 128, and another DelayComp with a Plugs value of 0 and a Samples
value of 12 (i.e. 140 – 128) on the group/bus that contains the dry non-horn-
tracks. The latency of both groups/buses is now the same, so the playback
timing is correctly aligned.
Note: You can keep it simple: Use the Precision Limiter only on outputs (as its
design was intended), or only in hosts that have full plugin delay compensa-
tion!
Compensating for Precision Equalizer
The Precision Equalizer uses an internal sample rate of 192kHz to facilitate its
amazing sonic quality. This upsampling results in a slightly larger latency than
other UAD plugins. Therefore, it requires slightly more compensation to re-
main perfectly synchronized with other tracks. This is not normally an issue be-
cause the Precision Equalizer is designed to be used for program material on
the output bus, where latency is not a consideration. However, if the Precision
Equalizer is used elsewhere in the signal chain and the host does not auto-
matically compensate for latency at that point in the signal chain, it requires
slightly more compensation to remain perfectly synchronized with other
tracks.
Therefore, when using the DelayComp or TrackAdv plugin to manually com-
pensate for the Precision Equalizer, enter the Samples value from Table 4 on
page 54 (in addition to the appropriate “Plugs” value) for each instance of
Precision Equalizer.
Important: Compensating for Precision Equalizer is not required if the host
application supports full plugin delay compensation throughout the entire sig-
nal path, or when it is used only on the outputs. See “Host PDC Implementa-
tion” on page 46.