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Not exactly what you're describing, but I've been running my band directly into Logic Pro on an M1 (both for recording, and live shows). Dry signals go through
by huehehue 4y ago
Not exactly what you're describing, but I've been running my band directly into Logic Pro on an M1 (both for recording, and live shows). Dry signals go through amp sims and effects processors, and then route to both a FOH mix and an in-ear mix all on the laptop.
Wish I had seen the OP's project months ago, but one bonus of the setup I describe is the ability to swap effects after the fact (by virtue of having the dry signal) and the ability to automate effects (so I can engage distortion etc as soon as we hit measure XYZ instead of having to click a pedal)
- digitallyfree 4y agoI've done live mixing with a laptop, DAW, and interface in the past and it does work but it's not something I would be comfortable with for an important show. Even with something like SAC (which is specifically designed for the task) the chance of hangs, crashes, etc. go up as at the end of the day it's just a program running on top of your OS. The setup and config also gets a bit hacky and you'll be the only one able to use it. As far as I know the only specialized system that does this is the Waves LV1 which has a dedicated OS running on top of x86 hardware for processing. While I haven't tried it apparently it works quite well. However I was more thinking of mixers like the QSC Touchmix/X32/etc. where the DSP probably eats up quite a bit of the unit cost, and how the price could be significantly brought down if the innards merely contained analog I/O and converters all tying into a powerful SoC.
- kimburgess 4y agoIt's interesting you mentioned QSC. They're one of the few vendors in the installed audio space that have made the jump to COTS hardware: https://www.qsc.com/resource-files/productresources/dn/dsp_cores/core_5200/q_dn_core_5200_specs.pdf https://www.qsc.com/resource-files/productresources/dn/dsp_c....