Crazy Sample Delay Error

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Hi all,

I’ve just encountered one of the stranger bugs I’ve seen while using Renoise.

I’m working on adding keyboard parts to an existing stereo mix, so I’ve got one long (about 4 minutes) stereo sample and several vsti’s in the song. I worked on the track for about 45 minutes or so when I noticed that I must have made a mistake somewhere in my pattern lengths (the tune is Strawberry Fields by the Beatles, so there are a ton of odd-length patterns as the time signature shifts). So I went back through to see if I had added or removed an extra 8 lines somewhere, and as I checked the beginning of the song I realized my sample was playing about 5 lines AFTER it was placed in the pattern (it’s placed at the very beginning of the first pattern). Even more strange, the actual METRONOME of the song was playing about 5 lines late as well, in line with the sample. And placing a sample anywhere in the song (even totally new samples I load in) triggers that sample about 5 lines too late as well. VSTi’s seem to behave the same way.

I’m totally at loss as to what could have caused this. I don’t see anything in song settings that could have screwed things up… Obviously the per-track delay setting couldn’t come close to offsetting the samples so much. Loading a different session in Renoise, it doesn’t appear to effect my other songs, but restarting Renoise and loading my Strawberry Fields session doesn’t seem to change anything – I still have the delay.

What on earth could be going on here? Do I just need to start a new session and copy-paste my existing work to it?

Thanks,
-Troupe

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I just discovered it’s the Automatic Plugin Delay Compensation… I have no idea what on earth could be causing such a huge period of delay… but there you go.

I’ll experiment later and see if I can figure out which plugin it is causing the delay.

While I suppose this isn’t a bug, it doesn’t seem like this behavior makes a ton of sense. There’s no indication of what’s causing the delay in the UI and a gap of almost a second between visual and audio is really disconcerting.

Thanks,
-Troupe

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Are you by any chance using AIXcoustic Creations’ Electri-Q vst? I have noticed that plugin especially with Auto PDC causes some weird delay effects extremely similar to what you just described.