In the studio, you can hook up the Impact server to any ASIO or Core Audio interface in order to free up your computer and offload your plugins to the server. When mixing live, connect the Impact server to a SoundGrid audio interface, and you’ll be able to run plugins in real time and with ultra-low latency using any mixing console. No, Waves is selling the Soundgrid DSP server to you 2. You can run “Soundgrid compatible” plguins from any manufacturer. Plugin Alliance are offering a Soundgrid bundle, other vendors are looking into it.
This week Waves posted Via their Facebook page, details of a case study performed in conjunction with CPU manufacturer Intel on the processing power of their SoundGrid Platform.
Heres what they said along with a link to the published cast study:
Heres what they said along with a link to the published cast study:
“Testing showed that when the SoundGrid platform was powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, it provided a 200-fold performance improvement for audio sampling compared to the previous DSP server running at the same frequency.”
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Hi gang,
I have a small project I wanted to work on for some time and just wanted to know if anyone else on here had a similar idea or thought. (Rookie post incoming)
I'm big into my pc gaming rigs and in general computer architecture. I was wondering has anyone ever built their own standalone server for running waves? I see they've reciently launched presale for a new 'mini style sound grid server' in 2019 where they offer an i5 machine for 800bucks @0.8ms latency @96k.
I have loads of components sitting at home and would love to build a small micro atx and maybe invest 200-300 for small form factor motherboard and case.
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Am I really naive in thinking that these machines can be built quite simply? Would there be massive latency issues by running waves native? Would I need to buy something like the Etherface or would it be possible to just run it on a LAN at the same almost 0.8ms latency with enough ram, processing power?
The idea would be to make something that's rack mountable like that but with the added benefit of it being a Windows 10machine and possibly formatted to run Mac on the partitioned drive for offline show editing e.t.c. A kind of super work computer capable of being relyable for either running my waves plugins live/cue lab e.t.c.
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