Mcdsp

[brianjanthony]

I've been doing native work for the last 2 years after being in TDM land for 15 ish years. I currently use Slate VMR as my main channel strips for tracking low latency tracking.

I've been thinking of going HDX again. I have some McDSP plugins but not a ton. Downloaded the bundles and they seem ok for general tools. Anyone using them as their bread and butter in DSP land?

I have more than enough plugins. But I'd like some DSP capable plugins that rock if I go that way for future proofing.

[YYR123]

Almost all of Plugin Alliance is AAXDSP

I use very few McDSP

[Stig Eliassen]

I use Filterbank, AE400 and Futzbox in nearly every session. All AAX-DSP. Softube FET is my go-to for compression, and I just started using bx_opto.

[audioluche]

Originally Posted by brianjanthony

I've been doing native work for the last 2 years after being in TDM land for 15 ish years. I currently use Slate VMR as my main channel strips for tracking low latency tracking.

I've been thinking of going HDX again. I have some McDSP plugins but not a ton. Downloaded the bundles and they seem ok for general tools. Anyone using them as their bread and butter in DSP land?

I have more than enough plugins. But I'd like some DSP capable plugins that rock if I go that way for future proofing.

I've used AE400 and 600 a lot but Sonnox dyn eq is now AAX DSP and i like it better. But McDSP dynamic eq is quite good. I've used 6030 compressor, but i use Arousor, softube tl100 and bx opto most of the time for compression. I think McDSP has great plugins but for bread and butter AAX DSP plugs, dont forget to check plugin alliance, sonnox and softube.

[brianjanthony]

Are you guys finding that you're using the native counterparts more once you're in mix mode? As an example, clients will send me routinely 70-80 tracks per song to start. Judging by mcdsp literature, if I just used one of their 6050 strips on each track, that would take up the entire card.

I can probably load 120 of em natively and my HDN wouldn't move past 20%. But I'd love it on my hdx bass tracking channel if I went Dsp.

I'm coming from having at one point hd5.

[BScout]

Originally Posted by brianjanthony

As an example, clients will send me routinely 70-80 tracks per song to start. Judging by mcdsp literature, if I just used one of their 6050 strips on each track, that would take up the entire card.

You get 4 instances of 6050 per chip. For one HDX card, that's 64 instances over 16 chips with 2 additional chips devoted to the mixer. So if the mixer wasn't needed (which it is) you could get 72 instances max.

[brianjanthony]

thanks for that pic. For me, I'd basically really want DSP for a few select instances. I've been doing bands just fine with Native. But personally, doing some Hammond and Bass work, where that instrument click is so important to lock in, I am shooting for anything I can latency wise. My system has been a little squirrely lately. Thanks again for the info!