Thanks mumu – Have you tried insert VSTi effects? I’d be very interested to know what sort of latency it can do going iLive>Rednet PC (audio plugin)>iLive. Obviously it would also depend on the latency of the plugin used.

Cheers

Richard Howey
Audio Dynamite Ltd
IDR48/IDR16/T112/R72/Mixpad,Tweak,
Dual M-Dante/DVS, 17″MBP/Logic 9/Custom Mackie Control

That’s what I’m looking for. Out of curiosity, what daw were you using, and what did you have the buffer set to?

Thanks in advance.

T112/48, MacBook Pro, D-link DIR-815, iPad 1 w/mixpad, Dante card feeding a Mac Mini w/DVS.

Both of these have actually already been addressed in this thread, the latency is in the video, and the second comment states plugin latency is dependent upon the kind of plug in.

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Originally posted by BerndVP

Hi Mumu,

I have T112 + iDR48 in combination with DANTE CARD.
I would like to use plug-ins.
Is there a lot of latency ? Or is it depended on what kind of plug-in you are using.. ?

T112 – iDR48 – Dante – v1.9

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iDR-48, T-112, Mixpad
College

Yes please. What DAW and at what buffer? I’m a pro tools guy, but record into reaper, due to PT’s stupid 32 channel limit. I figure I’ll use reaper to host the plugs. Just seeing what others are using.

Thanks.

T112/48, MacBook Pro, D-link DIR-815, iPad 1 w/mixpad, Dante card feeding a Mac Mini w/DVS.

Ok, thanks for the replay!

32bit floating point is useless, the iLive is running at 24bit….

T112 – iDR48 – Dante – v1.9

I did some research today and found out that there is a concept to use pcie cards via thunderbolt connection.
So it seems it is possible to add 1 or 2 or maybe 3 Expansion Card Slot(s) to any computer with a Thunderbolt Port.

This opens up another can of worms. Rednet to your MacBookPro, MacMini? Sounds wonderful.

I asked Sweetwater if they have any information about it. The sales person told me that he will ask this question as soon as he sees focusrite people.
(update: sweetwater talked to focusrite and they confirmed it works with expension chassis, waiting on Apple to approve the drivers.)

I found 3 solutions so far. I emailed Sonnet about it.
[:0](update received:”No plans at this time to test any Focusrite products.”)
[?](another update from the same company: “Hello Burak, I would like to add that we would be happy to support Focusrite to be compatible with our chassis. We have written their support department a message to let them know. “

Sonnet has a pretty big card compatibility list on their website:

Sonnet: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpressse.html
mLogic: https://www.mlogic.com/products/mlink
Helios: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Mercury_Helios

Should we get excited?

When I check the latency, I see 13ms with DVS in my setup. Like many people stated, it is good only for verbs and delays… Not good for channelstrip operations.
Here is my setup:

IDR32 w/ dante card
MBpro(i7) with MultiRack native & DVS
All gigabit network.

DVS latency set to 4ms, MultiRack buffer is 64(smaller value causes spikes).
DVS network latency 0.25ms

When I do the math: 0.25+4+1.3+4+0.25=9.8ms
But if I record the direct source and Multirack’ed version(w/o any plugin), I see 13ms difference.
I remember people in this forum achiving less than 13ms. How did you accomplish?

I like to hear your thoughts about this thunderbolt expension solution. I wish focusrite produced a direct thunderbolt to ethernet rednet/dante adapter.

IDR32
Motion Computing LE1700
MBP/Logic Pro9
idontPad1&3&mini
M-Dante

Got mine yesterday,
Sunday will the first day that I can test it with iLive!

T112 – iDR48 – Dante – v1.9