I highly recommend to use a program called “latency monitor” in a test run to see which drivers may slow down your real time audio processing (usually your wifi card will). Setup wise I’m running reaper via usb/asio and running mostly slate/waves plugins on a stock acer i7 4th generation with 16gb ram. In my experience this kind of latency doesn’t do any harm to your foh mix.ĥ,1ms (including 0,8ms from the desk) should be doable for wedges. Therefore adding plugins (also inserts) to my foh mix has become a routine task with that setup. Shows (Bar gigs up to 2k people indoor) that way already and didn’t have a single dropout. "I’m currently down to 4,6ms additional roundtrip latency via usb/ 16ch with either the stock card and the new x live card. Here is a little rundown from my current setup that i posted in a fb group: It boggles my mind to think that I could get away with doing the whole FOH mix in Reaper. The most I have tried was also mixing the snare in Reaper to use the elysia nvelope for more attack when I get really light hitting players. Fortunately, if anything goes wrong, all I have to do is mute that channel where it returns on the QU16 and pull up one fader on the QU16 and keep going. I am worried about relying too much on my computer/Reaper, however. I then only use that signal for my FOH mix, while the lead vocal in the monitors is still mixed from the QU-16 exclusively. I use the USB out of the mixer to send my lead vocal to Reaper for processing with plugins (along with the Voxengo SPAN rta). I would love to hear more about this from you.įor a few months now, I have been using Reaper while doing live sound with an Allen & Heath QU16. I might run the monitors with the built-in mixer on the x32. (This would only come up with some heavy weight plugin that you probably wouldn't be using live anyway.)īeing familiar with running live sound gigs with Reaper as the DAW, if I patched an x32 in for an audio interface, I'd be mixing FOH with Reaper. * With the disclaimer that their internal latency doesn't exceed your block size. You can simply use the x32 as an audio interface and ignore it's built-in mixer features if you wish. With that said, yes there will defenetly be situations throughout this year where the foh and room/outdoor setup will be good enough to really profit from a better sounding console.*Īgain thanks a ton! i'll post some of my impressions on that topic here as soon as i make them! that way i'm also sure to have a handle on the inear without a need for a stable wifi connection - wich tends to lack as soon as festivals exceed a couple of thousand people as i already noticed several times ago. Of course one could argue that any desk for more money will probably sound better (especially for the processing part of it) but when it comes to the ease of setup i'll rather stick to the x32 in-ear plus whatever 32 it will be for the foh. The two bands i'm mainly working with do have a x32 rack for their in ear, so sharing channels with a m/x 32 on foh postition would be the easiest way to bring a reliable situation each time. that way setting up/dialing in the vst shouldn't even take a minute. What i have in mind so far is to use the vst as a sole console emmulation.
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