[nama] Re: Latency and Logging

  • From: "S. Massy" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "S. Massy" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 13:47:23 -0400

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:48:41PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:17:07PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:41:02PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Are we applying latency compensation yet, or are we just calculating it
> > > for the time being? I have a project with latency offsets reported, but
> > > can't find any evidence of eeither -etd or playat being used either in
> > > the chainsetup file or in ecasound logs. So I'm wondering...
> > 
> > Massy,
> > 
> > I did a simple test right now with two tracks
> > and a delay causing effect on one, and got an 
> > extra operator applied (visible with 'sh' on
> > the other.)
> > 
> > You don't see -etd in the chain setup file
> > because Nama applies effects using IAM commands
> > after loading the chain setup file.
> I see the etd op using show_track. However, it doesn't show up in an ecs
> created with cs-save-as, nor iin the ecasound log, nor in the nama log
> with "-L ECI". Am I missing something?
In fact, if I issue cop-list, I get all the ops on the track except the
Delay op. Could nama somehow believe there is an op there but it never
gets cop-add'ed to the chain?

> 
> > On a related now, I'm thinking that LCR delay, or some other
> > LADSPA delay effect would be interesting to use instead
> > of -etd, because we could do a second calculation
> > and watch the require latency offsets drop 
> > to zero. 
> The problem with LCR delay is that I'm afraid it does mid-side
> conversion to have separate delay lines for left, right, and centre. I
> only had a cursory look, still I couldn't find a plugin to simply delay
> the signal by a given offset without mangling it.
> 
> Cheers,
> S.M.

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