Specifications

Chapter 26: Basic Mixing 429
Plug-In Delay (dly) Indicator
This indicator shows the total plug-in and hard-
ware insert delay on the track. This delay total is
used by Pro Tools to calculate the delay applied
to other tracks to keep them time-aligned. The
track with the highest plug-in and insert delay
displays delay information in orange.
Bypassing the track’s reported delay to Pro Tools
can be useful if your total plug-in delay on a
track exceeds the amount allowed in the Delay
Compensation Engine setting. After bypassing
the track’s reported delay, you must manually
nudge your track earlier by the reported amount
to achieve the proper delay compensation for
that track, while continuing to use Delay Com-
pensation (see “User Offset (+/–) Field” on
page 429.)
To bypass reporting plug-in delay to Pro Tools:
■ Start-Control-click (Windows) or Command-
Control-click (Macintosh) the Plug-in Delay in-
dicator. The track delay will appear greyed out,
and Pro Tools will not use that track’s plug-in
delay to calculate Delay Compensation for the
other tracks.
User Offset (+/–) Field
This field lets you adjust track delays manually.
In addition to the automatic delay, positive or
negative delay times can be entered in the user
offset (+/–) field.
This is useful for changing the feel of a track or
for time-aligning a track in case a plug-in is in-
correctly reporting its delay.
To change track delay using the User Offset field:
1 In the Delay Compensation view, click in the
User Offset edit field.
2 To set your delay value (in samples or millisec-
onds depending on your current preferences),
do one of the following:
• Enter a positive number (with or without
the “+” modifier) or negative number (with
the “–” modifier.)
• Control-drag (Windows) or Command-
drag (Macintosh) in the User Offset field to
scroll to a new value.
• Press the Up and Down Arrow keys to in-
crease or decrease the numerical values.
3 Press Enter.
To bypass the user delay:
■ Start-Control-click (Windows) or Command-
Control-click (Macintosh) the User Offset field.
The user defined delay will appear greyed out,
and it will no longer be applied to the track.
Track Compensation (cmp) Indicator
This indicator shows the amount of compensa-
tion Pro Tools applies to each track.
Delay that Exceeds the Compensation
Limit
When the total delay on a track exceeds the
amount of compensation available, Pro Tools
applies the maximum available compensation,
and displays the delay information in red (in the
Delay Compensation View) for any tracks that
cannot be fully compensated. The Delay Com-
pensation indicator in the Edit window also
turns red to indicate that the track delay exceeds
the delay compensation limit. In this case, you
need to bypass the track’s reported delay (see
“Plug-In Delay (dly) Indicator” on page 429),
then manually nudge the track to maintain
proper delay compensation (see “User Offset
(+/–) Field” on page 429).