I've just noticed that none of the plug-ins work if I change the playback speed. I've never noticed this before. Has anyone else had this happen in Vegas 4?
If you are talking about scrubbing or setting the playback rate to something other than 1.0, then you are correct and this is by design. When playing back at a rate not equal to 1.0, we bypass all FX processing. This has been this way since Vegas 1.0.
Peter - I know it's your software, but you're actually slightly wrong! Up until version 4, when you scrubbed Vegas did include 'in-line' track FX; other FX such as inserts were always bypassed. It's a shame this changed with V4.
it'd be quite nice to have to option of not bypassing (obviously a massive CPU overhead problem may happen) but for the future... Imagine having a speed up / slowdown feature like on a 2" tape machine! to be honest, that's about all I miss from the format!
If you have applied heavy effects on the track, especially dynamics-wise, the "original" signal might not be enough material to go by when you scrub.
I often scrub to find the exact start of a voiceover phrase inside a long sample, and the easiest way to do that by ear is to apply a ridiculously heavy limiter, so that when the noise gate kicks out you'll hear it. If I could do this when I scrub it would be a HUGE timesaver.
Logic does this, and it's extremely useful. Too bad the rest of their interface sucks... =)