We need a Thunderbolt HDX system

[Mount Royal]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

If you are getting good use out of two octo cards then that may indicate HDX is not a good/necessary option. UAD DSP cards naturally puts you in high-latency plugin processing, you have to get to them via the UAD native wrapper. HDX DSP is for those high IO config and/or folks who want/need to monitor through Pro Tools plugins at low latency.

I think Bob is just suggesting it may make more sense if you want to spend mo why, to do so on better interfaces not the DSP, MTRX is the latest (nice) interfaces that Avid OEM’ed from DAD.

If you love UAD plugins then going to one or more UAD Apollo with low latency DSP in the interface/console may make more sense for you... if latency/monitoring is a issue.

Thanks, Darryl. My AVID dealer counsels me that I may not be happy with the tracking latency on HD Native, as I'm used to the latency we've had with the TDM HD system. Apparently HDX offers even less latency than I now have with HD TDM. As for UAD, those plugs are never serially placed on any track at record time, so the UAD adds no latency to what I track.

I'm leaning towards a single HDX card and the 3-slot Sonnet chassis which, I am told, offers a quieter fan than the Magma chassis fa.

Thanks again,

John Caldwell