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Old 05-16-2022, 02:46 AM
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Default Re: HD3 not using resources efficiently. Advice??

You can use time based RTAS plugins on aux channels without much worry. Any additional latency just becomes predelay rather than any noticeable lag in time. Very few TDM reverb plugins ever became AAX-DSP for HDX because of that reason. Doing so costs you additional voices though - a voice isn’t just an audio channel in TDM/HDX. It is a pathway to/from DSP.

You can use RTAS plugins on any channel. If you record/input arm a channel, you will need to have a DSP plugin first in the chain otherwise the RTAS plugins will automatically be bypassed. Whether or not the latency is too large is something worth experimenting with.

Just be aware that round trips between DSP and CPU, or TDM and RTAS will cost you both in latency and voices. Sometimes it is better to keep a bunch of your plugin chain on a channel as RTAS for this reason, rather than moving audio back and forth between DSP and CPU.
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