So... Jon over at Audio Geek Zine has written about delay compensation in protools a few times this month, and if you're unfamiliar with the topic, you'll find them very helpful. But what I want to know is, why doesn't protools have this functionality built in?
Accoding to Sound Thinking, Digidesign's Protools family is by far the most popular recording software:
With Digidesign's 85% market share and more than 130,000 users world wide, it's not hard to see the huge advantage Pro Tools gives you over any other digital audio work station.Well, I find it very troubling that the most popular DAW, and possibly (see: probably) the most popular all-around-music-production software, doesn't have such a basic feature built in.
Just about all their competitors have it now:
| DAW | Delay Compensation Built-in? |
| Steinberg Cubase | Yes |
| Steinberg Nuendo | Yes |
| Ableton Live | Yes |
| FL Studio | Yes |
| Motu Digital Performer | No |
| Digidesign Protools | Edit: LE - No/HD - Yes |
| Adobe Audition | Yes |
| Apple Logic | (comes with some but it's not automatic) |
| Cakewalk Sonar | Yes |
How did this happen? Maybe digidesign has gone unchallenged in the pro-audio market too long?
Edit: One of the commenters has brought the fact that Pro-tools HD has Delay compensation to my attention.
As far as I'm concerned that's about as good as not having it, but that's subject matter for another post.
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Pro Tools does "include" delay compensation in its HD version. for them its all about the upsell, they want you to start with LE and then need all the features they left out of it so you will buy HD. Bastards....
It is all about getting those LE users to fork over 5 to 10 grand for HD. Though if you do a search over at the Gearslutz forum you will find a 20 dollar plugin that fixes the lack of delay compensation for le users. I forget the name right now but I can't pull it up while I'm on my blackberry typing this. There's a couple videos showing the software and it seems cool.
LE without ADC is unacceptable, absolutely!
I think even Cubase Essential has it! (For sure LIVE 7 LE has it)
They (DIGI) give you the plug-ins, but using them is impossible or very hard. You need a calculator here! Are you talking about workflow? Work-what?
I hope LE 8 is going to fix the things up a bit.
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