Urgh...
New to Logic, since last summer. In Cubase, I would sometimes record tracks to tape, and have them automatically re-align themselves with the original, after a quick set-up, which was saved as a hardware effect setting file. This required nothing but intuition and technology included with the program.
Looking to do the same thing in Logic, I ran into a few obstacles. I read this thread, checked with the creator of Latency Bundle (Artificial Audio) and bought it. I open the manual file, where it is described how to determine the latency of one's converters (and any outboard) and compensate for it. As an example, this uses two instrument-type channels.
I can duplicate that fairly easily, and since I am using a tape machine in my example, I would get a variation, in between -3 and +5 samples, showing a little motor instability (damned fine machine though, a Studer C37 from the 60's). However, That is where the fun ends, until I get my head around it...when applying the "latency compensator" plugin alone on a channel (and this may be where my newbieness in Logic is at fault) I get a constant gap of grossly misaligned audio files...even with radically different settings, bypassing everything...yada yada, but never even close to right.
Being that I have done this before using better tools, I am a little disappointed, and more than a little frustrated.
I am definitely doing something wrong, and a few of you seem to have gottten it right, using a bus as output, with an I/O plugin followed by a latency correcting plugin, or so I gather.
I have tried that too, and that's when the newbieness rears its'
head again, leading to all sorts of results, but nothing I want.
Man, was it easy in Steinberg-land. Someone, in a language I can understand, set this right. It took me ages to understand half of what is being said in this thread due to Logic-clature issues...and I still feel clueless.
Logic 8 w. Apogee R. 800, out, via tape machine and back in, in sync...kazaam stike
I believe it can be done...I have the necessary tools...what am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jeremy Barnes