AAX (Dsp) & AAX Native (Daw Cpu) ?

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by zavid

do you mean that the same AAX plug in
placed inside the HDX card dsp chip and on the D.a.w. cpu ,

sound identical ?
(64 bit)

still cannot understand why the plug ins manufacturers
do not specify : AAX-Dsp & AAX-Native

Yes - they sound the same.
And you've also been told that if a plugin supports aax-dsp it will say so. Just as that if a plugin just says aax you can assume it's aax native and NOT aax-dsp. Those are the conventions used.

edit for additional:
Do you now have an HDX system or are you just exploring options? Near as I can tell you have or had an old TDM system and you don't have any system info in your profile. Given a decent powerful system HDX dsp is no longer needed other than if you need more than the 32 I/O a native system can give.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by musicman691

other than if you need more than the 32 I/O a native system can give.

and even then HDN gives 64 i/o

[zavid]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Yes - they sound the same.
And you've also been told that if a plugin supports aax-dsp it will say so. Just as that if a plugin just says aax you can assume it's aax native and NOT aax-dsp. Those are the conventions used.

edit for additional:
Do you now have an HDX system or are you just exploring options? Near as I can tell you have or had an old TDM system and you don't have any system info in your profile. Given a decent powerful system HDX dsp is no longer needed other than if you need more than the 32 I/O a native system can give.

w o w

but it is the same thing for the master LR bounce ?

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by zavid

w o w

but it is the same thing for the master LR bounce ?

It doesn't matter where the plugins are used.


Why haven't you addressed my second paragraph? What I'm getting at is do you have a real need to find out this info for a purchase or what? We don't mind helping people but I'm getting the sense something else is going on here. What is so hard to understand about what we've been telling you?

[zavid]

Originally Posted by musicman691

It doesn't matter where the plugins are used.


Why haven't you addressed my second paragraph? What I'm getting at is do you have a real need to find out this info for a purchase or what? We don't mind helping people but I'm getting the sense something else is going on here. What is so hard to understand about what we've been telling you?

many thanks again to all !

i googled a bit about AAX ,
before start the thread

and as no clear info found about
i asked here because i got that this still is the best place

a friend that own an HD pcie rig
some week ago got an used native rig

and he say me that note differences between the HD cards rig and the Native rig
(same session and bit+sample sate)

he say that sound better with HD cards
and plug ins too…



ps:
no drugs , spirits , …girls in "heat"… ,
between the test….

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by zavid

many thanks again to all !

i googled a bit about AAX ,
before start the thread

and as no clear info found about
i asked here because i got that this still is the best place

a friend that own an HD pcie rig
some week ago got an used native rig

and he say me that note differences between the HD cards rig and the Native rig
(same session and bit+sample sate)

he say that sound better with HD cards
and plug ins too…



ps:
no drugs , spirits , …girls in "heat"… ,
between the test….

Your response is not understandable. I gather English is not your native language right?

[zavid]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Your response is not understandable. I gather English is not your native language right?

please can you post what you do not understand ?

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by zavid

please can you post what you do not understand ?

I don't have to as you already did that. I can't understand a word of what you wrote in your last post here - it makes no sense. Like I said/asked it seems like English is not your native language and you may be working through a translator program and there's nothing wrong with that (or there's something else going on). But you refuse to answer that. It may be a simple thing of not understanding the English idioms or what - I don't know.

I'm tired of trying to parse what you write.

[TrackerLe]

Its not hard to unsterstand, what Zavid wrote.


A friend has a HD PCIe TDM system and got a HD native rig. He says, that the session, he used, sounds better with is HD TDM hardware, than with the HD Native rig. Even the tdm plugins are superior over their AAX counterparts.


For me, this is a myth. I have a very long history with Digidesign and later Avid...
For me there is no difference between TDM and AAX. I used the Sonnox Plugins TDM and later AAX DSP...(no difference). Or another example, the MDWEQ; No difference between the tdm version and the aax one...With the Avid stock plugins, its the same. For me HDX and AAX DSP has one big advantage. Low latency... You can track and record over HDX with plugins in low latency. If you are only mixing, HD Native is very nice, cause of the I/O.
At last, if someone says AAX, he means AAX Native. Today AAX DSP has no priority for the Plugin Manufacturers. We still have Sonnox, McDSP, Plugin Alliance, Cranesong, Softtube (old plugins, but the new ones are all native)... and some more like Flux Audio, but we see,that HDX is dying and Avid is not Universal Audio with their DSP plattform... UA pushes their DSP solution with their own plugins...Avid, hmm... does nothing. No new plugins, no special things for HDX. The promised upgraded Voice Count of HDX cards will never come... For me HDX is dead...still useful, but dead in terms of development... There won´t be anything new about HDX...And the prime time is over... TDM was great and HDX is the end...

[JFreak]

It all comes down to gain staging. TDM as a 48bit fixed-point architecture was very strict, because once you went over you immediately heard it and could fix it on the spot. AAX on the other hand is 64bit floating-point and going over is much more subtle -- it means you can smear your sound without noticing and it all adds up. Eventually your sound sucks if your gain staging is wrong.

Sonnox on the other hand -- pls correct me if I am wrong -- has implemented their plugins to be "TDM compatible". Which means they clip the signal internally if you go over. IOW using Sonnox plugins your gain staging is likely better than using other AAX plugins and when your gain staging is good your plugins sound like they should. Not better, but they sound worse if you go over and don't care.