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Old 06-07-2021, 02:21 AM
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Default Re: June update - hybrid info

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Originally Posted by BScout View Post
I might be misunderstanding... you can use Native plugins with HDX just fine during mixing. What's the hold up?

Voice usage is just fundamentally different in HDX compared to native. As an exacerbated example, thirty 7.1.2 aux channels with a single native plugin on each use 0 of the available 384 voices in HD native, while it will use all of the available 256 voices in a HDX1 system due to the DSP-based mix engine.

You can get around it to a degree by using only DSP plugins on aux channels... but you only have a limited amount of DSP too. I think it is the single most limiting factor of HDX, and presumably why the hybrid engine and DSP safe mode for aux channels was introduced.
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