What does "native" mean in terms of PT systems?

[playground_strifer]

As it says on the tin. For some reason I have managed to get through 4 years of operating ProTools without ever working out what this means. it is causing me considerable discomfort.

What is a "native" system?

Excuse my ignorance.

Thenks.

[formfunction]

Originally Posted by playground_strifer

As it says on the tin. For some reason I have managed to get through 4 years of operating ProTools without ever working out what this means. it is causing me considerable discomfort.

What is a "native" system?

Excuse my ignorance.

Thenks.

One that runs solely on the "guts" of the computer... as opposed to HD which used the power of extra process cards..

[playground_strifer]

Thanks you.

Does this mean it has no DSP or anything on board? And as such, requires an extremely efficient computer to run at high sample resolutions?

Cheers.

[Obsidian Dragon]

That is for the most part true. Modern computers have advanced over the years that much of the digital audio processing can be done using the computer's processor "native.". In previous systems, additional DSP power was needed to support the higher sample rates and track counts. Today, use of DSP is more often associated with specially optimized plugins that take advantage of those DSP processors.

[formfunction]

Originally Posted by Obsidian Dragon

Today, use of DSP is more often associated with specially optimized plugins that take advantage of those DSP processors.

And more I/O

[Emcha_audio]

Although there is an HD native card. The card itself enables the use of the HD gear by connecting them into the card, but the card doesn't do any processing. All the processing is still done by the CPU(S) And as far as I know, even with that card, you can not use the TDM plugins.