Does FLStudio have PDC?

[strav100]

Just a quick question? Y or N

[Stupid American Pig]

well I know it has CDP, but not sure about PDC...

[pitchdrifter]

it doesn't - voxengo website has a small free tool to compensate for plugin delays in non pdc hosts, you should give it a whirl.

[sonicfire]

what is pdc?

edit: ahhhhhh plugin delay compensation!

[Wopelka]

and what is actually the need for PDC?

taking the risk to appear like a i admit i've never understood this problem.

[pitchdrifter]

different tracks have different effect plugins, each with different latency.. without PDC they'd not be playing back 100% synchronously (due to different plugin latencies in different signals).
So it'd be hard to get a kick to perfectly sync with another kick sound when both have different plugins applied to them. The resulting kick sound (when both kicks don't come at the same time) would be pretty messy - as an example.

[Wopelka]

thanks for the explanation

[püRe]

Even better example would be convolution engines which most of the time have massive latencies...

[Mirabebe]

All effect plugs included with FL are zero-latency.

Just an FYI.

99% of plugs out there - are also zero latency, with the exception of FFT plugs and hardware-assisted plugs.

[Wopelka]

All effect plugs included with FL are zero-latency.

Just an FYI.

99% of plugs out there - are also zero latency, with the exception of FFT plugs and hardware-assisted plugs.

that explains why i haven't noticed anything until now.

[Mirabebe]

Because PDC is a new "it" word this year. Last year was "freezing". I am sure the coming year there will be some new its-useless-without-it hyped up feature to move the new versions of the products.

[foosnark]

Could it also be helpful if you have a high-latency sound card and you're trying to keep things in sync with other hardware?

On my laptop, MIDI triggering of outboard synths is way faster than any software instruments.

And of course you could abuse it to intentionally de-synchronize things.

[Mirabebe]

Not really, thats not what PDC is for as far as i am aware.

[xander]

All effect plugs included with FL are zero-latency.

Just an FYI.

99% of plugs out there - are also zero latency, with the exception of FFT plugs and hardware-assisted plugs.

WTF is up with you anyway??

You know, I have a LOT of patience, but your constant bullshit gets to be too much sometimes. The guy asked a legitimate question and deserves a qualified answer.

There is no such thing as "zero latency" for 99% of plugins out there...

In other words, what you are saying is simply not true - unless you are running a Cray Liquid Nitrogen-cooled CPU and spending $10,000.00 dollars a day to use it after spending a year on the processor waiting list at Livermore Labs...

For a guy/girl/whatever the f**k who lists a website as 'www.loopyfruits.com' which doesn't exist anyway, I think you need to get real - the guy asked a reasonable question.

Alexei at Voxengo had made a simple tool that helps to advance the pre-sampling mode for heavy latency plugins (like S'bergs Virtual Guitar, or Linplug's RMIV, for instance), etc.

Give it a try because it really does help in many cases.

[pitchdrifter]

Plugin delay compensation is actually vital when you use high end limiters/compressors, DSP plugins/synths and convolution reverb, to avoid the entire project shifting tracks back and forth in time for a couple ms.
Freezing is also vital when you get to the system's performance boundaries.

But for FL I agree, FL isn't geared towards that user group, it'd be a waste of financial and timely resources to implement PDC or freezing into it, as hardly any FL user would have need for it.