Create wet/dry mix while using FL PDC

[highkoo]

Id love for FL wizards to explain how they do this-

I have an effect plugin that causes XXms latency.
I want to run a sample through it.
But, I need a wet/dry knob, which the plugin does not have.

I know how to get the mix I want on a channel.
And usually I just 'eat' the delay and arrange with it.
Its the PDC in FL that I cant get my head around.
How should that look in this case?
Would you just use Automatic PDC?
Do a lot of people just arrange with PDC always on, and is that reliable?

Another reason I ask is that the manual warns-
"If 'Automatic PDC' fails then you will then be consigned to go down into the bowels of the manual PDC system. Down we say! Down to spend eternity unravelling the mess you created with the sidechain and send options."

And that sounds so much like what I do.

[camsr]

The PDC should work just fine in that case. It just delays the dry mixer track by the wet mixer track time.

I once ran into a problem with sidechaining breaking PDC. I solved it by creating a 'Route' track and 'Processing' track. The Route track takes the input, sends out the sidechain, and sends serial to the Processing track, which has the effects.

[highkoo]

Sweeeet.
Thanks!
You started to answer my follow up question too.
Is it known what the Automatic definitely cannot handle?
If I get in the habit of leaving it on and just blasting ahead as usual itd be nice to not get surprised when it does break. IL's joking in the manual is pretty funny, but it leaves us wondering.
Was it just a particular plugin that broke it in your sidechain example?

Since posting I have split off a new project file and forged ahead with the Auto on. I am not quite to final render yet, but it seems to be working as expected.

[camsr]

If you run into problems with it, branch off what you can until you find out what fixes it, that's what I did