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UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 59 - Using UAD Powered Plug-Ins
Group/Bus Situation: You have a song with 2 vocals on audio tracks, and a MIDI piano.
You want a smoother vocal blend so you put both vocal tracks on a
group/bus for compression with the infamous LA2A. Result: The vocal tracks
play late in relation to the MIDI track.
Solution: Put a TrackAdv with a Plugin value of 1 on the track inserts of the vo-
cal tracks. Keep the Sample value at zero.
Situation: You have a song with drums, guitar, and 2 separate vocals on au-
dio tracks, and a MIDI bass line. You want a smoother vocal blend so you put
both vocal tracks on a group/bus for compression with the 1176LN. Result:
The vocal tracks play late in relation to the instrument tracks.
Solution: Put a TrackAdv with a Plugin value of 1 on the track inserts of the vo-
cal tracks. Keep the Sample value at zero. Note that the DelayComp plugin
is not need at all in this situation.
Live Processing
The previous discussion of delay compensation applies primarily to playback
and mixing of existing tracks. During recording (tracking), the primary con-
cern usually centers around getting the absolute lowest possible latency out of
your hardware and software combination. The lower the latency is, the closer
you can get to a realtime, “ears match the fingers” performance situation in
the digital environment where some latency is unavoidable.
Minimizing realtime latency is simply a matter of setting the hardware device
driver (ASIO or similar) buffer setting as low as possible before system over-
loads or diminished audio quality (such as distortion) occurs. The manufac-
turer of the sound output device in use may offer additional tips for optimizing
latency on systems that use their hardware.
Note: Keep in mind the latency for each instance of UAD Powered Plug-Ins
is equal to twice the current buffer size of the host system. This is because au-
dio needs to travel to the UAD card, then back again. For example, with a
buffer size of 256 samples, one Powered Plug-In will introduce 512 samples
of latency, and two Powered Plug-Ins in succession will introduce 1024 sam-
ples of latency.