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Analyzing

Analysis works by listening to a shared window of playback — the same passage, taken from every connected instance at the same host timeline position — and then measuring it.

Starting Analyze while stopped

  1. Place the playhead shortly before useful material.
  2. Click ANALYZE.
  3. PhaseLock displays WAITING FOR PLAY.
  4. Start the DAW transport.

Every connected instance arms together and begins analyzing from the same position. Click Analyze a second time while waiting if you want to disarm it.

Starting Analyze during playback

You can start playback first and click ANALYZE while the transport is moving. PhaseLock schedules a shared start point for all connected instances and begins analyzing without requiring you to stop.

Live mode

Live-sound rigs such as Waves SuperRack have no transport and no playhead: audio runs continuously, so the normal Analyze path, which waits for the host to play, never starts. Turn on Live in the header for these hosts. PhaseLock then analyzes the running audio directly, with no transport.

In LIVE, the lane list shows DELAY instead of OFFSET. Each row shows the delay on that lane in milliseconds. ADVANCED shows the same delay in milliseconds and samples.

PhaseLock works out delay for each group separately. The latest mic gets 0 ms. The other mics are delayed to meet it.

VS REF adjusts the lane against its reference. LATENCY shows the longest delay in the session.

Live mode is a manual switch. PhaseLock never turns it on for you. A session saved in Live mode reopens in Live mode.

Analysis status

The ANALYZE button stays pressed while PhaseLock listens.

  • WAITING FOR PLAY: Start playback.
  • ANALYZING…: PhaseLock is listening.
  • CALCULATING…: PhaseLock is applying the correction.

The previous graphs may remain visible and dimmed during reanalysis. An UPDATING message marks them as results from the earlier run.

How long to play

A new analysis stops after eight seconds. Playback keeps going.

Click ANALYZE again to finish early. You can also stop playback. PhaseLock uses any capture at least one second long. It discards shorter captures.

When to analyze again

Run Analyze again after changes that alter the signal reaching PhaseLock, including:

  • Moving PhaseLock to a different insert position
  • Changing processing before PhaseLock
  • Replacing, adding, or removing a microphone track
  • Moving an instance to a different group
  • Changing the session sample rate
  • Changing the section you want analyzed

Changing a reference or a PhaseLock control can often recalculate from the last analysis. If the required lane was not part of it, PhaseLock asks you to analyze again.

Adding more audio to a group

A new analysis captures up to eight seconds. Use the + button to add a different passage, such as a tom fill.

  1. Click the + on any lane in the group.
  2. PhaseLock arms that group and waits for playback, the way Analyze does.
  3. Start the transport, play the passage you want to add, and stop when done.
  4. PhaseLock appends the new pass to the group’s existing audio, re-measures the group, and locks it again. Every other group stays exactly as it was.

Each group can hold up to 30 seconds in total. An added pass runs until you stop it or the group reaches that limit. Add to Analysis works on a group in the current session. It is not available after you reopen a saved session because PhaseLock does not store the analyzed audio.

Sample-rate changes

A correction belongs to the sample rate at which it was measured. When the DAW sample rate changes, PhaseLock marks the existing result as stale and stops applying it. Run Analyze again at the new sample rate.

All participating plugin instances must run at the same sample rate.