Monitoring Latency and MIDI
To monitor a MIDI device through the audio inputs on the Digi 001, you need to route
each input to a track and record-enable that track before you will hear any output. This is
another reason why it is useful to use a separate external mixer with the Digi 001—so
you can always hear your synths, drum-machines, and samplers without setting up
routings in the Pro Tools software.
Also, when you are monitoring the audio coming into the Digi 001 from an external
synthesizer, what you hear will have an audio delay equivalent to the number of samples
specified in your Hardware Buffer settings—the latency delay. This delay will be very
apparent if you have existing audio tracks, as these will be heard first and the MIDI
devices will be heard a little later. If you don’t have an external mixer, you will have to
accept this latency while recording MIDI.
But there is a way around this for playback—use the Global MIDI Playback Offset
feature in Pro Tools LE’s MIDI Preferences to trigger your MIDI data early to
compensate for the latency. This offset is made in such a way that it just affects the
playback—not the way the MIDI data is displayed in the Edit window. You are given the
choice of offsetting the MIDI tracks either globally (all by the same amount) or
individually. To compensate for audio monitoring latency, you will need to enter a
negative offset that causes the MIDI data to be played back earlier by a number of
samples equivalent to the latency in samples. The best way to work out which latency
value to use is to record the audio from your MIDI device into Pro Tools, and then simply
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