Anyone else dealing with plugin latency in Pro Tools M-Powered

[departed]

I hate the fact that M-P has no plugin for automatic delay compensation and I'm having to move tracks around to get wet tracks to be in time. This annoys me because I hate the untidiness of my projects with transients all out of sync.

Is there nothing else that can be done to rid me of the plugin-induced delay?

I especially get this when running DrumxChanger to partially replace snares/kicks. From what I understand PT has automatic delay compensation for up to 2000 samples and most third party plugins are 2064+ (i think). I ask because I'm about to purchase Waves CLA pack and might not do so if I can adress this issue with the money I'd spend on it.

Would an upgrade in my hardware help? I'm currently running a macbook 2.1ghz, would the 3.16ghz iMac make a huge difference?

 

[::XeS::]

No you have to change daw to have automatic delay compensation. It's not hardware related.
Anyway it's not that hard to fix....I mean, you have only to check the delay of every track (cmd+click 2 times) and shift back by the amount of the delay.
And if a drum replacer adds some delay, print the replaced track to a new track and shift back this too.

 

[Trevoire520]

I just use timeadjuster to bring other tracks in sync with the delayed ones. Simples!