I must be doing somthing wrong?

[JHJ]

I have an HD2 excell in a dual 1 gig g4.mdd

When I have a session that has say 30 tracks of vocals(RnB) with comp,eq,phoenix on each. 4 aux delay verb ect a masterfader with 5 plugs I get not enough dsp. Have i set this thing up wrong. I spent all this money and I can only do 35 tracks?wtf I use 64 \ 4 dsp or 128\4dsp

Help

Thanks

[Stig Eliassen]

Are you saying you're out of chips? Then try to use 64 voices (2 dsp). What sample rate do you work with?

[JHJ]

Just 24/48

[Stig Eliassen]

Better yet...start out with say 32 voices (1 DSP) on every new session, and then add voices when you need to. Then you'll have maximum DSP for the plug-ins. How does that sound?

[JHJ]

Help me understand the theory of this. If I have 32/1dsp I have 32 voices available but I don't understand the dsp part 1 dsp 2dsp ect....I mix with a lot of plugs and would like to use as many plugs as I want on a typical 40 track song about 130.

Thanks

[Stig Eliassen]

I did a keyword search in the Answerbase, and found this:

Why does the playback engine on my Pro Tools system have choices for same number of voices but different number of DSP chips?

"This allows some flexibility in how the DSP is assigned and gives better PCI performance if you use the extra DSP chip.

So if you are getting DAE error -6042 saying the PCI bus is too busy you would want to choose the 96 voice 3 DSP setting in this example.

Using the extra DSP chip is also used with systems that are setup with the Avid Unity Network to help PCI performance. Using the 96 voice 2 DSP will give you more efficient DSP usage so you will have more chips available for plugins. So this would be the normal choice unless you are having the -6042 error occur."