Recorded track delayed on playback

Just starting out with Logic. I'm using an Aurora 16 with firewire and a Macbook Pro. Tried to record some bass yesterday, and it seemed fine as we were recording, but the recorded track is delayed on playback. What's up with that?

What were your Buffer settings during recording? I assume you didn't monitor through Logic (Software monitoring) but directly through your Interface otherwise you would have noticed the latency while playing. So set the Buffer settings in the Audio prefs to the lowest possible (try 32 or 64) and see if that improves the issue.
Did you record with your Plug In delay compensation to "All" or "tracks+Busses" or off? Try "tracks" or "off" next time and also make sure you don't have a latency inducing plug on your Stereo outs like Adaptive Limiter or alike.

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With my *Digi 003 rack* and *Logic Studio Pro 8.0.2* I suddenly have recorded audio-tracks delayed when played back. If I play a guitar right on click and play it back, it is totally out of timing. Never had that one before. When I use the *Apogee Duet Soundcard*, all is working fine. Has anyone any idea what that may be?
Cheers!
Michael

Hi Anthro,
I just repeat this test for you rigth now..
it is very fresh test... in order to have a perfect sync when recording an external instrument with "Software Monitoring" turn to "OFF" (for be able to repeat this test on Logic that usually is used with SW turned to "ON" you must restart Logic or Core Audio before starting the test)
I repeat this test refering to specific Logic setting : *Software Monitoring turn to "OFF"*
(when SW is turn to ON, every external incoming Audio input is recorded in perfect sync with the SMPTE and BPM time)
I have use an External Midi Drum machine as sound source!
see the following pictures:
this is the MIDI object quantize at 1/4:
this is the Audio recording of the MIDI object and the relative coreaudio setting preferences
*software monitoring off*
this is the Audio recording of the same Midi object with a correct Recording Delay Compensation setting.
*software monitoring off*
If you have doubt about this test, feel free to replay me... I hope this should be help you to find a good sync....
in any case... this is not the same for all Audio devices, they can have different driver-hardware adding or less DELAY...there are faster device like Motu 828mk3 and there are not so fast device like as Digidesign core audio drivers that have proprietary security and rigths protection)
however, FOR A PERFECT Sync... i suggest to extend the resolution of the Samples Editor...
bacause some device can be set as 1124 instead 1024 (or different value)
(on My MOtu I get a near to perfect sync around 1009 /1012 Delay
(I hope this post can be helpful also for the people that they +*"cannot believe that"*+ )
Good Luck
fermusic

Delay on playback

Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 running on a brand new Mac Pro (10.5.4, 6 GB RAM, 2x2.8 quad CPUs).
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Brian,
It is a pretty small project. (DV footage). No nested sequences, no graphics at all (haven't imported them yet). This is a 2 minute promotional film. There's perhaps 30 minutes of raw footage in the project.
I excluded the drive from Spotlight at your suggestion and haven't seen any improvement. I don't know if I would need to reboot the computer, etc., to see any effect there...
I'm actually starting to think it is something to do with some of the footage. I brought in an old project and wasn't seeing the problem in that project. With the current project, the client delivered some of the footage as a DVD, and I was forced to use Streamclip to rip the footage from the (non-commercial, unprotected) DVD into DV format. The rest of the footage digitized from a DV camera. I wonder if the Streamclip footage is weird in some way that's causing the difficulty? (I've never used footage obtained that way before).
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Tonight i was using Logic to send a mix to my hardware for mastering and capturing back through the Apogee Ensemble with the soft limit engaged as the final peak limiting to bush up the level a bit and prevent overs. No overs were indicated in the track chanels durind recording. However upon playback of the mastered audio at unity gain in Logic i am getting overs of a few dB. To get the peaks at the right level i had to pull the faders down about 3dB. My question is why is the payback level in Logic Pro 8 louder than indicated when going in.

Hallams wrote:
Tonight i was using Logic to send a mix to my hardware for mastering and capturing back through the Apogee Ensemble with the soft limit engaged
Is that an effect from the Ensemble? Or a Logic plug? If it is from the ensemble, are you sure it gets included in an offline bounce? Maybe you need to bounce realtime?
as the final peak limiting to bush up the level a bit and prevent overs. No overs were indicated in the track chanels durind recording.
But if the Limiter is on the bounce, you should check for overs on the +final output+ , being the total signal AFTER the soft limiter.
However upon playback of the mastered audio at unity gain in Logic i am getting overs of a few dB. To get the peaks at the right level i had to pull the faders down about 3dB. My question is why is the payback level in Logic Pro 8 louder than indicated when going in.
The payback level, LOL... Logic as a revenge-generator...
The levels are indicated correctly in Logic. But if the Soft Limiter that you speak of is applied +after the signal leaves Logic+, you should somehow monitor what leaves the Soft Limiter. But as I do not know the Ensemble, I do not know for sure. However, realtime bouncing instead of offline might be the answer here.
regards, Erik.

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Thanks, ATR,
I wll try this--but I still am unclear on how to do what the Manual says is possible: select clips on another track that WILL be moved, if I so desire, so as to remain synched to the main Video track.
UPDATE:
In the case of inserting Freeze Frame, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
1. Put Video on Vid1 track
2. Put Music on Sound Track
3. Ran a few seconds of Vid
4. Stopped Vid, selected Freeze Frame
5. Held down Ctrl key while clicking "Insert in Movie" also tried with holding down Alt key.
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6. Slid the final part of the Sound Track to the left along the timeline to re-connect it to the next segment created by the above process.
Result: the video following the final Freeze Frame was pushed to the right end of Video1 track.
7. Slid the Sound Track all the way to the left.
Result: the entire Video 1 Track contents were pushed to the right and divided in pieces.
I documented each step with screen shots which I can send if you want them and if I can figure out how to do it.
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In the case of inserting a video clip to the Timeline, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
1. Locate video in Project Assets
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2b. R click video in Project Assets (pull-down menu appears), push Alt
Result: pull-down menu disappears as soon as Alt is pushed down.
I can stil drag the Vid clip but it's one more manual step...I love shortcuts!!

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