[jeremiahmoore]

I can answer this, as I've been running a dual-system since PT9 came out. I have an HD2 system with 192 i/o, and an RME fireface 400 on the same machine.

I've done a bunch of mixes native-only on the RME and it works great. It's super convenient and flexible, and amply powered. At the moment, I'm running a 160-track surround mix on native. I do this partly for my own interest, and partly for convenience of using the IO box I choose.


there are two answers:

1) RTAS plug-ins operate at a lower latency on a native-only system. This is technically because they don't have to stream out of the DSP mixer, into host processing, and back into the DSP mixer. Those two steps each incur one buffer's worth of latency.

2) ADC


-jeremiah