Re: [Audacity-devel] Re: Strange behaviour of Lookahead Limiter in Audacity?

[Daniel J. <da...@mo...>]

> > Is this a known problem?
>
> Yes. Thats how the "lookahead" works :)

I meant 'has anyone else noticed this in Audacity', seeing as it isn't 
really a problem with non-multitrack projects, or realtime effects 
where the output doesn't need to be in synch (eg 
ardour->jamin->ecasound).

> In recent versions it, and several other plugins, expose an output
> control port called "latency", which contains the audio i/o latency
> in samples.

The solution could be simpler than that - all Audacity needs to do is 
chop off the lookahead amount from the beginning of the selection, 
and make sure the end of the selection doesn't get chopped off by the 
same amount - which it does at present. I guess this might require 
Lookahead Limiter to become one of the 'integrated' effects, given 
that it seems to need special treatment in a non-realtime context.

Cheers!

Daniel