ADC in Pro Tools LE?
Jon from Audio Geek Zine was kind enough to tell me about a automatic delay adjuster plug-in for Pro Tools LE. Yep, it’s true. The downside is that it’s VST only! It supposedly works with the wrapper from Fxpansion. It’s called Auto Time Adjuster and is made by Mellowmuse.
According to Mellowmuse website
You insert it on every track as the last plug-in, and each track instance communicates their latency with the others. When you add/remove a plugin on a track all you need to do is enter the total latency for that track into its Auto Time Adjuster. All other tracks with Auto Time Adjuster inserted will respond by calculating and shifting their delay to compensate!
So the wrapper is needed. Auto Time Adjuster also needs to be authorized in a VST host. I imagine it would work in Ableton Live Lite which most Pro Tools users have, or perhaps in Reaper.
Thanks to Jon at Audio Geek Zine
Wake up Digidesign, wake up! You’re one of the last company that still don’t offer this basic protocol. People are switching to other daw because of that.
By david paquin ~ June 4, 2008 kl 3:50 am
Wonder if this will work with UAD plugins??
I have 2 cards and almost all the plugins but I can’t use the stuff in my ProTools Le sustem only in Nuendo due to the lack of ADC problem
cheers
/Mike
By MIKO ~ June 4, 2008 kl 3:58 am
I use the Ugly VSTi Interface for authorising VST plug-ins before wrapping them in the FXpansion VST-RTAS wrapper.
By Matt ~ June 4, 2008 kl 11:13 am
I was thinking “what the hell is this guys problem?” before I realized that there actually was something called Ugly VSTi Interface!
Good tip Matt
By stiff ~ June 5, 2008 kl 4:20 am
Ugly VSTi Interface!
Ugly is the word that’s for sure
Jeesus
/Mike
By MIKO ~ June 5, 2008 kl 5:49 am
Something like this Mellowmuse’s Auto Time Adjuster would be great to have for Windows users also. It is amazing that anyone hasn’t made this kind of a plug available previously.
By Aboensis ~ June 5, 2008 kl 7:08 am
argh, you can’t authorise it in Pro Tools, which yes, to be fair, he makes clear, but I can’t authorise it in Peak Pro either, the button is missing as well. and I have no other VST hosts. d’oh, hope it is in fact fixed soon, this could be really cool…
By terminal3 ~ June 5, 2008 kl 6:16 pm
Perhaps “auto” is a misnomer here, since you do still need to enter a track’s latency amount into the plug-in by hand, yes? But I get that it’s coordinating the latency times between tracks/plug-in instances, which is something I’ve played around with in Pluggo but not really gotten to a release-able version. Besides, I keep hoping that Digi will wake up and make this a built-in feature, so I’m on the fence about investing any time into it.
Oh, and the Ugly VSTi is my creation… Ugly indeed! I’m glad it’s still working for people, it really could use an update…
By Leigh ~ June 7, 2008 kl 2:55 pm
Have digi ever officially said why LE has no ADC?
Maybe someone should start a petition. Even if they included it as an option with the musicproductiontoolkit or something like?
By Pete ~ June 9, 2008 kl 10:58 am
1) can be authorised in LE now, sweet! and Peak Pro!
2) Digi’s never said publicly why LE has no ADC, but the accepted canon is that it’s one of the key features that might cannibalise HD sales. whether that’s ACTUALLY true or not, who knows, but marketing wins over engineering, always.
By terminal3 ~ June 9, 2008 kl 5:24 pm
Uuuhhmmm, The only thing I’ve found is this text on the website:
The mixing engine in host-based Pro Tools systems works a bit differently; the
mixing architecture in these systems is such that all internal routing and plug-in
connection delays need no compensation. The place where latencies can become an
issue with host-based Pro Tools systems is with plug-ins or external processors that
have processing latency in their algorithms. Fortunately there are some simple
remedies to alleviate such delays.
Most RTAS plug-ins do not have processing latencies. For those that do
induce latency, there is an easy way to find out the number of samples
of delay on a track so you can manually correct it. Simply Ctrl + Click
(Win) or Command + Click (Mac) on the Vol/Peak/Delay view below
the track fader in the Pro Tools Mix window (see figure 1). This same
method can also be used to find any delays incurred using external
effects processors.
By J~P ~ June 9, 2008 kl 5:33 pm
Mellowmuse have released a new version and it looks really cool. Also there a video showing how effective the plugin is.
By DavidT ~ July 20, 2008 kl 1:22 am
Thanks for the tip!
By stiff ~ July 20, 2008 kl 1:44 pm