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nowaysj wrote:Think I got it! Thanks! So in the vi rack, you would have a lane of a midi track, and a lane of an instrument track for the automation?

Grooki, you're a fl user right? Think I remember that.

One of Fl's major downfalls is that it doesn't do auto plugin delay compensation. This is a big issue! If you have a bass and its routed to two mixer channels for separate processing, and one channel has a plugin that introduces delay (I'd say a majority of pluggins introduce delay, and many powerful plugins introduce substantial amounts of delay, some don't introduce any [like very little a sample or so]), and then you mix the two channels back together, one of the channels will be delayed by the slower plugin. If you have a transient, it will be blurred out in time. Bass can go out of phase. It's just dirty. Fruity can do plugin delay compensation, but its not automatic, and from what I can tell, it is laborious. You basically... wait, I'm not even gonna write how to do it. I don't even want to think about it. Hit the f1 when you've got the mixer up and you can read about it.

Here is a picture of non automatic plugin delay in action. The first hit is a snare, split and routed to two channels then summed. The second hit(s) are with a latency inducing plugin on one of the channels. Notice how the whole hit is late, the peak is vastly different because the transients of the second snare come later than the transients of the first snare.

nowaysj wrote:Okay, got a q 4 u all compassionate enough to keep reading - if you draw a loop in the project page, is there a way to get the cursor to snap to the start of the loop? Like I am listening, I see I've gotta tweak something in bar 6, so I draw a loop, the cursor is already past, anyway to get it to start at the loop rather than continuing on or starting from the last start position?

I can't think of an instance where you would draw a loop, but want the cursor to continue on to some other part of the song.

FSTZ wrote:hahahaha

busted!

moving your stuff after you write your automation strikes me as weird

but hey, I have some "divergent" production habits as well

my friend Nik (Calculon) has always bigg'd you up and while I haven't heard anything from you recently, I am certain you know exactly what you are doing

haha

nowaysj wrote:L button.

I was hoping there was a way so that the cursor automatically starts at the beginning of the loop.

Seems like cubase does nothing 4 u. Of course you want the cursor to start at the beginning of the loop, u just drew the fucker... BUT you can press a series of buttons to get what u want

legend4ry wrote:Only downside to Cubase is that I don't have the money to get 5.

nowaysj wrote:

legend4ry wrote:Only downside to Cubase is that I don't have the money to get 5.

And I thought u were done with the computers. Get the F outta here.

nowaysj wrote:Okay tough guys. How do you set up side chaining with a 3rd party vst compressor that supports an external input? (ie like the Sonalksis SV-315 Mk2 ) in c4 mind u.