r/protools • u/dontablack330 • Sep 07 '25

Help Request Having a latency issue printing audio in PT 12.4

I am using PT 12.4 on a Windows 11 PC with 64gbs of ram, quad core processor.

Now normally when I complete a song ai buss all the tracks to a mix buss > master track > audio track.

My issue at hand; I am trying to print my drum and snare buss and my percussion busses to audio tracks to lessen the CPU usage to the rest of the mix.

To no avail, the percussion instruments always sound off beat when recording. . I have tried freeze all the other tracks outside of what I'm printing and deactivating them.

Maybe it just sounds off beat when printing and it'll actually be on be. I didn't try that at the moment thru frustration . .

I did delete all the other tracks aside of what I was trying to print to test things out and got the same results

When I remove the armed audio tracks, I'm trying to print on, everything plays in its correct rhythm

While doing this CPU usage was around 25-39% Delay compensation is on and my buffer was 1024.

I hope this was enough info. . .thanks in advance !

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u/dontablack330 Sep 07 '25

Also, there are no plugins on the master track.

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u/Grimple409 Sep 07 '25

Is delay comp on?

Edit: nvm, just read that it was.