One year, no crashes or errors. HDX with AAX DSP

[Audioartist]

How many of you using native and UAD/digigrid plugs can say that?
Even used it on national TV for live musicmix, thats how confident I am with the system.
My point is just that It's not only about you can use 10.000 of reverbs and near hdx like latency in a native system.
Stability when using only DSP plugs is just rock solid and I wish that Avid and plug-in manufacturers will support that better.
And also that more people will realize the benefits.
Sure, I am not in a big need for native VI's but I would probably get a separate native PT mac if I was.

[Wall2Wall]

It's great to have a stable system. That should be expected, not applauded. That says alot about the perception of HDX. When I let go of my HD3/PT10 rig it didn't have a crash in since PT 7.

BTW, my UA Apollo/Octo/PT HD rig has never crashed. Been over two years.

[audioluche]

Originally Posted by Audioartist

How many of you using native and UAD/digigrid plugs can say that?
Even used it on national TV for live musicmix, thats how confident I am with the system.
My point is just that It's not only about you can use 10.000 of reverbs and near hdx like latency in a native system.
Stability when using only DSP plugs is just rock solid and I wish that Avid and plug-in manufacturers will support that better.
And also that more people will realize the benefits.
Sure, I am not in a big need for native VI's but I would probably get a separate native PT mac if I was.

Yes, love my HDX rig

By the way, did you see this post: http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=371707

I think we need more developers like this.

[Brandonx1]

A year without crashing is remarkable! Wow.

[jbrown7282]

I can't remember the last time I had a Fatal crash other than not having enough coffee and doing something silly

[Barry Johns]

I can't remember the last time I had a crash with my TDM rig either.

[audioluche]

Originally Posted by Barry Johns

I can't remember the last time I had a crash with my TDM rig either.

All i can say is during the last years with my HD3 accel rig, the system was always bring down to his knees. When the cards were full + having a lot of native plugins and tracks in the mix, it was a PITA. DSP shuffling, voice allocation menaging, delay compensation reaching the max, less stability, etc... I had a long and fun ride with TDM, but ask me if i miss my rig?

HDX is as stable as TDM was in my "golden" TDM years. And now i have all the other advantages tha TDM dont have.

Honestly, in the last year and + using HDX, the only stability issue i had was when using Atune (now fixed) and Slate plugins (now much better).

Could not be happier.
Ok, maybe i could be happier with Soundtoys DSP. But i am very happy!

[Audioartist]

So you had problems when you were using native plugins in combination with dsp.
Thats why we need the plugins as dsp versions so you can be all dsp.
As soon as you add one native plugin, the buffersize come in to play and hello error messages and crashes.

Originally Posted by audioluche

All i can say is during the last years with my HD3 accel rig, the system was always bring down to his knees. When the cards were full + having a lot of native plugins and tracks in the mix, it was a PITA. DSP shuffling, voice allocation menaging, delay compensation reaching the max, less stability, etc... I had a long and fun ride with TDM, but ask me if i miss my rig?



HDX is as stable as TDM was in my "golden" TDM years. And now i have all the other advantages tha TDM dont have.



Honestly, in the last year and + using HDX, the only stability issue i had was when using Atune (now fixed) and Slate plugins (now much better).



Could not be happier.

Ok, maybe i could be happier with Soundtoys DSP. But i am very happy!

[Table Syrup Records]

I can.

I have not had session errors or crashes, or any glitchy behaviors with my DiGiGrid setup. Solid.

I don't do any broadcast, but even in a session environment, it is important to me to have a stable system, and it is important to my clients as well.

I can say that my HD Native system was one of the most stable systems I've ran, and I was very happy to move to that from an HD3.... But I am even more happy with my DiGiGrid setup. :)

I do have 0.5 ms more latency by strictly running DiGiGrid on it's own... but even 1.7ms (96KHz) with plugins in monitoring is fine by me and my clients.... while running Avid Hardware with a DLS, I was at 1.2ms (96KHz)....

All this said, would I be happy with a HDX rig? I bet I would be.... BUT - I would still feel a dire need for Waves DSP as their is no Waves AAX DSP... (I AM A VERY VERY HEAVY WAVES USER, so this is important TO ME) ....

granted, I could run Waves natively with that system, but then I am back to the DSP/Native woes of the past... again.... and I am actually happy to be avoiding that.

All in all, we use what we need.... or we hope to... lol... right now, the DiGiGrid system is what fit all my needs the best.

[audioluche]

Originally Posted by Audioartist

So you had problems when you were using native plugins in combination with dsp.
Thats why we need the plugins as dsp versions so you can be all dsp.
As soon as you add one native plugin, the buffersize come in to play and hello error messages and crashes.

Hi Audioartist.

I had these problems in TDM land but i dont have them with my HDX rig.
With HDX, i can easily mix DSP and native while mixing, using heavy load of native plugins and everything is rock solid. And i dont have latency problems with PT 11 since the delay compensation amount is way larger than it was with TDM.