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Knows which plugins add delay and turns them off while tracking.

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I hear myself a fraction late through the software and cannot play in time, what is the actual fix?

One more thing that catches people once direct monitoring is sorted, because it produces a similar-feeling problem with a different cause.

If you are playing along to already-recorded tracks and something feels slightly out, look at plugin delay compensation. Some plugins - particularly lookahead limiters and certain analysers, introduce delay, and the software compensates by shifting everything else. That is correct for playback and it means what you hear while overdubbing can be shifted relative to what you are playing.

Symptom to recognise: takes that felt right sit visibly early or late on the timeline afterwards, consistently.

What to do: turn off or bypass heavy plugins on the master bus while tracking. You can put them back for mixing, and the take will land where you played it.

And the general principle for the whole tracking stage: make the monitoring path as short and as boring as possible. Direct monitoring, minimal plugins, nothing clever on the master. Save all the processing for when nobody has an instrument in their hands. Nearly every latency complaint I have seen is somebody trying to mix and record at the same moment.

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