Latency lesson needed?

Thanx ppl, this forum has been very useful. **I need a latency lesson 1. What and where do you set the buffers at? Is it 1 basic setting? 2. Do you change them during the same session? i.e. recording/mixing/mastering, etc.? 3. I have outboard gear I want to use, but they seem to delay the recorded signal on playback. I want to use them through my Digi001 channels 5/6/7/8 so I can get rid of some plug-ins (you know, processor speed) How do I correct this delay? (It would be nice to use and external reverb etc for cue mixes too) 4. When I record vocals, if I don't mute the ch. I get a latency echo. Can this be gotten rid of? 5. At the present I have to use an external/outboard reverb from my mixer for the headphone mix to give it a little wetness. How can I do this in PT in the CH.? I can't hear the effect of the plug-in I'm using while I record. This makes sweetening up a cue mix impossible and amplitude etc no fun at all. Getting a good guitar solo dry then finding a sound later sux. Plz advise...ty 6. On an external mixer you can route a reverb/echo through the aux/mon outs and into a Ch on your board. You can then dial in the amount of fx you want in each individual Ch.'s send or cue knob thus using one reverb for a multitude of things. How can this be done within the PT mixer? Thanx for your help. I'm sure there are others who share these same Q's. Jason Audio Art Cafe Digi 001/Pent4/Windows XP/24 ch. analog mixer to route all my stuff into my 001

Jason In setups - playback engine - hardware buffer . You can reduce the buffer to 128 or 256 which should reduce latency to an acceptable and on some instruments, inaudible level. This is a must fro tracking. If you don't mind bypassing all your inserts and aux tracks, you can also set the system to Low Latency Monitoring ( un less you are using an Mbox) which gives you the absolute minimum latency at the expense of monitoring reverb or amplitube etc. If you are using software instruments, LLM is not an option. During mixing, latency is not abn issue so if you get repeated Buffer Overrun errors, raise the hardware buffer to 1024. If you have very processer intensive plugins, they will introduce latency that cannot be reduced except by nudging those tracks forward to compensate. If you use an external mixer and monitor thru the mixer, latency is not an issue except for software instruments. But anything oplugged thru the mixee will sound direct.

anybody know of automatic plugin delay compensation is in the works? sure would be nice for those drum tracks...

dB, I read somewhere on the DUC that plug-in delay compensation in PT would require a rewrite of the DAE. The comment was that if that were the case, it would be some time in coming. Cheers,