Latency offset trick DT

Hi everybody, What’s good?

Here’s a little trick I figured out the other day, thought it would be nice to share. I couldn’t find anything mentioned about this earlier on the forum, so sorry if I’m posting stuff double here.

At the moment I’m using the DT to sequence a bunch of eurorack drum voices via a Mutant Brain midi/cv converter as well as using the DT itself as a source for drum sounds.
I noticed the sounds/hits from the eurorack modules were lagging behind the DT’s internal generated sounds due to latency caused by midi -> midi -> cv processing. Just enough to mess up the general groove/feel of all drum sounds combined together.
I recorded hits from both DT and modules in to my daw to measure how much the latency is. Taking jitter in account, it’s about 4 mili-seconds.

Since I don’t mind using the DT as a mono sound source and don’t really need the DT’s delay, because I have other means to generate delay effects I came up with the following:
I pan all tracks hard right, and only use the DT’s left audio output, so no dry signal is coming out of the DT. All tracks go fully wet into the delay.
Delay settings:
Pingpong mode - off
Wide - fully counter clockwise/-64
Feedback - fully counter clockwise/0
HPF/LPF Whatever you fancy :slight_smile:
Reverb - 0
Volume - 127
This way only the wet signal of the delay comes out of the left audio output. By increasing the Time parameter you can create an offset/delay over the DT’s internal generated sounds. Works a treat…

Have a nice weekend and all the best,

Mark

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