Re: Waves Studiorack
First off from a Latency POV - lets get the numbers straight. - tracking through plug ins at 96kHz (the only data point we usually get)... in all cases this is with zero additional latency plug ins. Note that for an AVID i/o the A/D + D/A conversion time at 96kHz is ~0.47ms (this is also the Low Latency monitor path latency - analog to analog)
HDX = 0.7ms through PT with plugs (HDX processing ~ 0.23ms)
Waves DLS with SG driver (SGP mode?? what hte heck does SGP stand for??) = 0.8ms + A/D D/A = 1.27ms
Waves DLS + HDX = 0.7ms + 0.8ms = 1.5ms (or is this 0.47ms + 0.8ms??)
HDN = 1.7ms (64 buffer)
Now to me there is no revolution going on - only AVB or Ethernet audio coming of age. There is also any number of solutions for tracking native with someones proprietary dsp at very low latency (96kHz numbers)
Apollo - 1.1ms
The new MOTU - 0.33ms - with Ethernet networking!!!
Orion Zen
Steinberg
Aurora
Metric Halo
etc....
The Waves allure (and their system has many attractive features) is to use plugs we already know (and hopefully love) combined with good integration with ProTools. I love my Waves stuff but could totally live without if needed. Also I have a killer nMP that runs HDN at 96kHz 64 buffer really well. So I can use anyones plugs in record channels at 0.5ms higher latency than a DLS would do. For me - 1.7ms is good enough... but I have to be careful to keep buffers that low and all my projects are small (24 tracks or less usually)
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