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The only thing the Waves card can do that the Dante card cannot is work with a Waves Soundgrid Server which is important in a live sound setting where latency is a real issue.

Is the latency difference really that noticeable? Latency on a Dante network with a decent switch (assuming you’re not doing multiple hops) should go as low as .5ms? I suppose the Dante virtual soundcard may be worse, if you’re using it?

[DymaxionParticipant]

I can’t hear my SQ6 in a quiet room if my head is more than a foot from the back vents. I wouldn’t worry about it.

[DymaxionParticipant]

Oh, yeah — Dante card is likely in my future for the channel count, and I know it’s still a live-focused system. That said, the routing problems don’t change with Dante. Is it possible to have a scene that only changes the patching for a single channel? So I could just have two scenes per channel that I wanted to flip between patch states, and then I’d just need to do scene automation via midi instead of messing with the routing bits? (I know the routing is directly automatable, but it looks a touch more annoying to program)

[DymaxionParticipant]

Well, it’s more that I’d like to be able to arm individual channels and groups, so saving, say, 2^30 scenes probably won’t work. 🙂 But yeah, I guess automation is the way. Thanks, all!

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Right, yes — but there’s no way to do it without repatching? Like, there’s not an easy way to set up a parallel monitor flow? If there were more gangs available, I could see setting up a gang per input channel with the DAW playback so I can record dry and then have the same processing applied to both channels. But failing something I’m missing in the docs, I guess automating the input patching is the best way.

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The signals will come from a rack/desk of synths in the studio, through a set of ART T8s. Probably going to run channel-group-main to give a little more leeway with processesing. Main out to studio monitors. When I say “insert”, I mean the channel insert after the gate on mix channels. The DAW would be hooked in either via USB on those inserts, or the same via Dante. Or, possibly, using the mix channel direct outs, but then I have to figure out how to route in the DAW return lines for playback, ideally without having to repatch.

Unfortunately, I’ll be buying online; definitely not going to try to work with a dealer in person under our current conditions.

While there are times when recording locally makes sense, the lack of a “takes” facility in the SQ-drive recorder makes it less useful overall. In reaper, I can easily stack up and swap between a half dozen versions of a part and switch between them, nudge the alignment between multiple tracks, etc. Also, it looks like switching which tracks are being recorded/played back from the SQ-drive means repatching, right? So I could obviously have a scene with all the IO set for the recorder and play everything back, but if I want to arm/disarm individual tracks, it’s going to be a lot of flipping back and forth?

I can go down the route of using midi automation to automatically re-route audio when I want to arm or disarm a track in the DAW or in the local recorder, but that feels like a lot of lifting for something I’d hope would have an easy solution.

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