Monitoring Options With 003 Rack

[Blank Frank]

Hi
I've just recently started using a 003 rack setup and I'm a little confused as to how best to monitor while recording. I figure that there is no direct monitoring options as such, and that all audio has to pass through Protools first, I use low latency monitoring and it seems Ok so long as the buffers are set to 128 or 64, but there are some pretty complex mixes I'm working on that won't run at these settings, and if I want to add some overdubs now at a buffer setting of 512, the latency is un-usable. So I'm just wondering if I'm missing something here or is it a limitation of the hardware.
Also it'd be nice to know how to set up 2 different headphone mixes through the 2 headphone outputs.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[Greg M]

Blank Frank,

I use Low Latency Monitoring all the time with the HW buffer set to 1024 and no significant latency while recording. What you cannot do though, is have plug-ins on the Master fader that create delay. LLM will not deal with latency created by plug-ins on the Master bus.

If your Master bus is clear and you are still getting latency while recording in LLM mode, you have got some other problem.

Hope this helps,
Greg

[albee1952]

Low Latency mode makes the buffer setting not matter. If you are hearing latency dependant on the buffer setting, then you don't have LLM engaged. Use LLM for doing you overdubs but switch it off for mixing so you can pile on the plugins. Or buy/build a more powerful machine. My system allows for recording at the 64 buffer with plenty of plugins. That way you could use aux sends to analog outputs for creating headphone mixes.