UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual
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Chapter 9: UAD Delay Compensation
Send
Situation: You have a song with drums and guitar on audio tracks, and a MIDI
bass line. You want a cohesive room reverb on the audio tracks so you send
them to the UAD RealVerb Pro via an effect send. Result: The RealVerb Pro ef-
fect return plays late in relation to the MIDI track.
Solution: Put a TrackAdv plug-in on the track insert of the audio tracks with a
Plugs value of 1. If you had an 1176LN and a RealVerb Pro on the send re-
turn, the TrackAdv Plugs value would be 2. Keep the Sample value at zero.
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 plug-in value of 1 on the track inserts of the
vocal 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 plug-in value of 1 on the track inserts of the
vocal tracks. Keep the Sample value at zero. Note that the DelayComp plug-
in is not need at all in this situation.
Compensating Upsampled Plug-Ins
Some UAD plug-ins use an internal sample rate of 192kHz to achieve their
sonic quality. This upsampling results in a larger latency than other UAD plug-
ins. Therefore, they require more compensation to remain perfectly synchro-
nized with other tracks.
When using the DelayComp or TrackAdv plug-in to manually compensate for
an upsampled UAD plug-in, the latency value from
Table 7 on page 110
must
be entered as the “Samples” value in addition to the appropriate “Plugs”
value for each instance of the upsampled plug-in. Note that the compensation
value to use depends on the session sample rate.
Upsampled
Compensation
Notes
• Compensating for upsampled UAD plug-ins is not required if the host appli-
cation supports full plug-in delay compensation throughout the signal path.
