On off buttons of plugins going green

[Shadowfax]

Strange title maybe....If I add an instrument and send it through an instrument bus the o/off buttons go green instead of blue and any plugins (in this instance Softube Drawmer 1973) does not receive any input even thought the VU meter before the plugin is receiving an input...why does the on/off switch turn from blue to green?

thank you in advance for any help.

Windows 11 pro...FP8...Yamaha N12

 

[SwitchBack]

When recording/monitoring in native low-latency mode the green buttons indicate plug-ins that meet the ≦3ms requirement. Other plug-ins get skipped in the monitor mixes until recording is done.

 

[Lukas]

Check out this FAQ blog article:

https://support.presonus.com/hc/en-us/articles/9223446792461-Studio-One-6-Audio-Dropout-Protection-and-Low-Latency-Monitoring-FAQ

 

[Shadowfax]

Thank you both for your reply's...My Drawmer 1973 meets the ≦3ms requirement ( the on/off button is green) but I struggle to understand why when I play back a recorded track the drawmer does not indicate a signal, If I turn drop out protection to low or off the drawmer indicates a signal,
does this mean I can't use dropout protection in medium or high mode? I've moved from Cubase 15 to FP8 and finding a bit of a struggle guy's..sorry if I seem a bit stupid,
I read the FAQ blog with interest..gonna have to give it a few more reads to get my head around it...
thanks again for the help..I'm dead without it.

 

[SwitchBack]

For normal playback make sure that monitoring is off on all tracks and/or the green Z is off on all outputs. All green plug-in buttons will return to blue/grey and all plug-ins previously bypassed for the monitoring outputs will come back to life.

Also note that native low-latency monitoring prevents the use of Pipeline and the Splitter. So a <3ms plugin on a splitter channel will still be disabled in native low-latency mode.