Delay for the click sound

jules · October 6, 2018, 9:06pm

Weasel:

Jules:

Let me ask you something. As I understand it, you’d be playing an instrument via MIDI and the latency settings would make it sound (in your example) 140ms late. So what you’d like is to be able to do is adjust the click to sound 140ms late. Right?

Now, of course, after recording, you play the track back and Cubase shifts it into time, so it plays in time with the tempo. Correct?

I get the idea and at first glance, it seems reasonable….but I see a potential problem with this. If you were playing to a click that was shifted by 140ms. wouldn’t you wind up with a recording that’s 140ms out of time….because that’s what you listened to during performance as a reference? When Cubase finishes the recording, isn’t it going to shift the track 140ms to compensate for the latency? Wouldn’t it now be out of time with the rest of the track….by 140ms.

Am I missing something? Just asking.

That’s exact. I had this idea a few days ago when i was trying to record a violin part at first. 140 ms delay on the instrument (no other choice, it’s by design), empty project, and the click was dead on time, and it was just impossible to record this part properly with a 140 ms gap between the sound of the instrument and the sound of the click. Of course, once you’re in the middle of a project, with instruments, percussions, drums, already recorded, it’s another scenario.