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10-01-2008, 05:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2008, 05:26 PM by sven hauck.)
Hi to all the engineers, producers, djs and members of the forum. It's time again for a new poll.
I thought it would be interesting to see how many of you use DSP hardware. By this I mean a Digital Signal Processing card or external hardware that was added to your computer's configuration, which does not include the soundcard that your machine came with. Creamware, UAD, M-Audio, RME, or Focusrite are a few manufacturers of said products.
To qualify as DSP hardware it must contain a Digital Signal Processing chip that performs calculations on the device itself for effects, mixing, or whatever else. Devices that only provide inputs or outputs should not be considered. Likewise, synthesizers that connect via USB/Firewire also should not be considered.
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using a DSP card as a DAW/mixing/effects/etc
the greatest advantages is it adds processing power, and low latency
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I use 3 cards linked together from Creamware (now called Sonic Core) for routing, effects and synthesis.
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I find my UAD cards use a lot of my native processor to make up all the delay compensation..
One thing I enjoy about Logic is it seems to have unlimited delay compensation, where as protools is down and out with UAD plugin. What up with that?
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What do you mean by down & out? Crashes?
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Uses up all of protools automatic delay comp. From what I recall in school Protools had 3 settings for delay compensation. 1 off. 2. low. and 3. high. Where low and high were x amount of samples. One or two UAD plugins would require more samples of delay compensation than protools was able to give.
I use protools on a regular basis for my work as a sound editor, but delay compensation never comes into play as I am only using it for basic dialog and sfx editing. Not mixing. So if someone can enlighten me on its current delay compensation abilities...
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10-03-2008, 05:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2008, 09:51 PM by Rambunkcious.)
NuEra,
Hi my DSP based rig is a PT HD set up and the delay compensation for native or TDM plug ins is great works perfectly, as for external & internal UAD, SSL, and Powercore DSP processors that i tested with the HD setup two years ago didnt seem to work to well there was always problems with not enough compensations or general bugs.
The settings for delay compensations are 1023 and 4095. I dont believe PT LE has this compensation ability, instead we were taught to utilize the delay compensation plug in on an individual track basis in LE, where you manually had to go and set the amount of delay you needed.
Hope that helps
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Running M-Audio Profire 2626 & FW410, as well as Allen+Heath Xone 2D.
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Rambunkcious Wrote:NuEra,
my DSP based rig is a PT HD set up and the delay compensation for native or TDM plug ins is great works perfectly, as for external UAD, SSL, and Powercore DSP processors that i tested with the HD setup two years ago didnt seem to work to well there was always problems with not enough compensations or general bugs.
Bunkcious
Yes, I've also found that trying to run a UAD card with my HD3 rig didn't work too well and was creating more problems than helping
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If you haven't voted yet, please do so. The poll closes at the end of the month and it would be cool to get some more responses. Thanks.
