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Originally Posted by studioj11
Not only PT specific but io specific. You have to be using avid ios with HD native to use low latency monitoring mode. Many people use third party hardware now.
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IMO - As has always been true - ProTools HD software (all I have ever used) is designed to work with PT Hardware. In the old days there was virtually no other choice
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Originally Posted by studioj11
I suspect there are lots of people in your situation who feel the same way. I certainly was in that camp when digigrid was first announced. If it were just a plugin box I would tend to still agree... but digigrid is soooo much more than a UAD for waves plugins. It is a routing and networking powerhouse, interapp, across network, across devices... the possibilities are vast. It is now the entire package of features that is luring me in. and hey its awesome that I happen to have a mercury TDM bundle...
does it bug you that avid has never released a decent core audio driver for its hardware? well you can route system audio to your avid IO's with the emotion mixer (using the sg core audio driver in system preferences). record system audio directly into a PT audio track if you want. thats just the tip of the iceberg.
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Though I appreciate all the routing - as a hi end project studio I have no need for it (and it would actually complicate my setup - like putting AVID i/o in the tracking rooms - no way - no fans allowed
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Also - 3 years ago when they announced PT10 as the last TDM version I sold my old HD stuff (probably too soon but oh well) and all my Waves TDM (not quite $12K but most of the way there)... So HDX on the used market + a chassis vs DLS + Plugins is about the same $$. If someone put both in front of me today and said choose - I believe I would take HDX...
AVID is slow but the S3L shows that they have a pretty good idea how to do an HDX AVB system. Tailor that more for the project studio and color me - VERY interested. Still Waves stuff has its merits (more for true Native people and multi room facilities though IMO) - if they got some major players on SG - this would change the picture... But AAX64 has a huge lead here...