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that low, but it’s a lot better than the 1024 samples that would have been in
there had the Low Latency feature not been implemented.
There are some limitations with this method – any plug-ins and sends assigned
to record-enabled tracks will be bypassed, for example – but at least you can
get around the problem reasonably well.
One particular situation always requires a workaround. If you are using a
plug-in to create a metronome click, you are going to lose your click in Low
Latency mode.
One solution is to use an external MIDI device such as a drum machine to play
the click. Another, partial, solution is to bus the output of the track containing
the plug-in to an Audio track and record this to your hard disk rst. Then you
can dispense with the plug-in track and simply replay the audio click track.
The problem with this, of course, is that you lose the ability to hear the click
during count-o bars. If your session starts at Bar 1, Beat 1, for example, this
can make it practically impossible to cue a musician to overdub starting at
Bar1, Beat 1.
A solution here is to make sure that you leave one or more bars empty at the
start of your session so that you can record the click as audio into these ‘startup’
bars and use this to cue the musicians.
Monitoring Latency and MIDI
To monitor a MIDI device through the audio inputs on the Digi 001, you need
to route each input to a track and record-enable that track before you will hear
any output. This is another reason why it is useful to use a separate external
mixer with the Digi 001 – so you can always hear your synths, drum-machines,
and samplers without setting up routings in the Pro Tools software.
Also, when you are monitoring the audio coming into the Digi 001 from an
external synthesizer, what you hear will have an audio delay equivalent to the
number of samples speci ed in your Hardware Bu er settings – the latency
delay. This delay will be very apparent if you have existing audio tracks, as
these will be heard first and the MIDI devices will be heard a little later. If
you don’t have an external mixer you will have to accept this latency while
recording MIDI.
But there is a way around this for playback – use the Global MIDI Playback
Offset feature in Pro Tools LE’ s MIDI Preferences to trigger your MIDI data
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