Delay Compensation View Indicators and Field
The Delay (dly) indicator reports the total plug-in (AAX, TDM, and RTAS) and hardware insert delay on the track. The Delay indicator’s report to Pro Tools Delay Compensation Engine can be bypassed when Delay Compensation is enabled. This is useful for manually time-aligning a track when the total delay on a track exceeds the Delay Compensation limit. See Delay that Exceeds the Compensation Limit.
Indicates that track delay reporting is enabled and the track does not exceed the available amount of Delay Compensation.
Indicates that this is the track reporting the longest plug-in and hardware insert delay in the session.
Indicates that the amount of plug-in and hardware insert delay on the track exceeds the available amount of Delay Compensation (see Delay that Exceeds the Compensation Limit).
This field lets you adjust track delays manually while Delay Compensation is enabled. The User Offset is added to or subtracted from the amount of delay applied by Track Compensation. The User Offset is useful for the following cases:
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For manually time-aligning a track if a plug-in is incorrectly reporting its delay.
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1 In the Delay Compensation View, click in the User Offset edit field.
2 To set your delay value (in samples or milliseconds depending on your current preferences), do one of the following:
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Enter a positive number (with or without the “+” modifier) for a positive delay (later in time) or negative number (with the “–” modifier) for a negative delay (earlier in time).
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Drag in the User Offset field to scroll to a new value. For finer resolution, Control-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac).
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Press the Up and Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease the numerical values.
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Command-Control-click (Mac) or Start-Control-click (Windows) the User Offset field. The user-defined delay appears grayed out and does not apply to the track.
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This indicator shows the amount of Delay Compensation Pro Tools applies to each track.
The display color indicates the amount of Delay Compensation applied, as follows:
Track compensation is enabled and the track does not exceed the Delay Compensation limit. The amount of Delay Compensation shown in the indicator is applied to the track.
Indicates that Delay Compensation is force-enabled on the track. When the track is record-enabled or TrackInput-enabled, Delay Compensation is not suspended and remains enabled (see Overriding Low Latency Monitoring During Recording).
Indicates that the track delay exceeds the available amount of Delay Compensation and no Delay Compensation is applied to the track (see Delay that Exceeds the Compensation Limit).
Indicates that Delay Compensation for the track is bypassed and no delay is applied to the track.