For the first time ever, I tried recording a guitarist plugged straight into my audio interface, and into a DP track with Amplitube 4 inserted on it, with record mode set to "Blend". The latency was negligible,
and it only added about 8% CPU consumption on my aging 2010 Quadcore Mac.
Up til today, I've been running a D.I. splitter on guitars, so one side returns to the guitarist's amp so they can play through what they like in real time, and the other signal goes into DP direct so I end up with a D.I. track I can re-amp later. I'd read horror stories about how direct hardware monitoring taxes the computer too much, but my first experiment today didn't bear that worst-case scenario out. In fact the guitarist stayed on after the session to try out every software amp I have (and I have a lot..Amplitube, UAD, STL, BIAS, TH-U).
So my question is this..does anybody know if setting record mode to "Auto" switch DP to multi-core threading? I would have expected doing so would ping my Processing meter all the way to the red but it did not.
Can't believe I never tried this before
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Can't believe I never tried this before
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Re: Can't believe I never tried this before
My meter won't ping anymore...
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DP9.5, Macbook Pro (2018) Mojave, Slate VMS mic, Everything Bundle, Dual Raven MTI 2, Apollo Twin Quad, UAD Arrow, UAD Satellite Octo Tbolt and all the UAD plugs, NI Komplete 11 Ultimate & Arturia V Collection 6, Maschine Studio MK3 Hardware, NI Komplete Kontrol 61s MK 2, Spectrasonics Ominisphere, Superior Drummer, BFD3, Ozone 7, Altiverb, Sound Toys, Waves, Final Cut X. PT 11.
DP9.5, Macbook Pro (2018) Mojave, Slate VMS mic, Everything Bundle, Dual Raven MTI 2, Apollo Twin Quad, UAD Arrow, UAD Satellite Octo Tbolt and all the UAD plugs, NI Komplete 11 Ultimate & Arturia V Collection 6, Maschine Studio MK3 Hardware, NI Komplete Kontrol 61s MK 2, Spectrasonics Ominisphere, Superior Drummer, BFD3, Ozone 7, Altiverb, Sound Toys, Waves, Final Cut X. PT 11.
Re: Can't believe I never tried this before
I was gigging on guitar through DP eight years ago. I used an Ultralite interface. I used Firewire until the jack wore out then I switched to USB. DP buffer set to 64.
My DP session ran the VOX AC30 sim, cab sim, phaser, flanger, delay and probably a few other goodies. Also in the session I ran MachFive 3 with 10 or so live instruments. This was a cover band and I played keys and guitar. All the guitar effects were controlled from my USB keyboard. Worked absolutely great.
I like a real amp and microphones and I'll go through the trouble if I feel like it. But I do a lot of tracking direct. Bass for example is almost always direct and then processed in DP.
Groovy!
Dave
My DP session ran the VOX AC30 sim, cab sim, phaser, flanger, delay and probably a few other goodies. Also in the session I ran MachFive 3 with 10 or so live instruments. This was a cover band and I played keys and guitar. All the guitar effects were controlled from my USB keyboard. Worked absolutely great.
I like a real amp and microphones and I'll go through the trouble if I feel like it. But I do a lot of tracking direct. Bass for example is almost always direct and then processed in DP.
Groovy!
Dave