HD PLUGS vs RTAS

[thenewnoise]

Thinking of purchasing a new pack of plugins and noticed that obviously the RTAS versions will save me some dough... What do you guys recommend? My computer is about a year old and when I bought it, it was the fastest available... Is there any other drawback to using RTAS other than it running off your computer's processor?

Thanks dudes..

[midnightrambler]

The more RTAS you run, the slower the computer responds. I personally find things like sluggish screen draws etc really infuriating, so I try to get the comp to do as little processing as possible.

[crizdee]

Originally Posted by midnightrambler

The more RTAS you run, the slower the computer responds. I personally find things like sluggish screen draws etc really infuriating, so I try to get the comp to do as little processing as possible.

Hi,

My computer doesn't slow down when using RTAS plugs

There are other caveats thought to using RTAS plugins.

They use voices when played after TDM, when used on Aux's etc. they also have a higher delay than TDM plugs. and when the CPU does get close to max you can get cpu overload messages and occasionally pops and clicks in the audio! but only when the CPU is maxxed and starts to peak etc.

When used carefully and in the right order when inserted, RTAS is fine and work just as well as TDM.

Overall TDM is better for all the reasons above, but it much depends on how you will be using them and your method of working yada yada.

Chris