Adjust for Record Latency and Record Shift
You may experience that audio material you record end up in a displaced position, too early or too late. The reason for this happening is often one of the following:
• Your audio hardware reports an incorrect Input latency value in its communication with Cubase.
• Your system has a high Output latency and you’re recording with input monitoring through an effect plug-in, which in itself has an inherent latency.
This means there will be a delay between when you play something and when you actually hear it. In such a situation, you may often instinctively play “ahead of time”, in an attempt to compensate for the perceived delay. However, because Cubase features automatic plug-in compensation, meaning that plug-in delays are compensated for to maintain sync and timing, the audio you record will end up in the wrong position (too early).
You can compensate for the above by adjusting these two parameters.
• By deactivating “Adjust for Record Latency”, you instruct Cubase not to use its plug-in delay compensation feature.
• If you change the Record Shift value, the position of recorded audio will automatically be shifted by the corresponding number of samples (up to 100000).
Positive values shift the position forward, and negative values shift the position backward.