[jduggerParticipant]

I would think Dante is a much worse choice for latency when dealing with round-trip issues like in-line plugins and software instruments.

I can look what the lowest settings are when I get home, but I think the very shortest possible setting was 16 samples at 24/96. The board has a tiny bit of latency itself as well in addition to the USB.

[jduggerParticipant]

> Until you want to do punch-ins…

I guess I’m confused on that one as well.

In the old days with tape and limited tracks I would worry about performing a punch well. Now I just do another take and edit.

To answer the original question, it looks like 1.67ms is the lowest possible setting. I’m running mine at 2048 (25ms!) because it literally just makes no difference in the workflow I use what latency I have since all of my cue mixes are run through the SQ6. The computer has become basically a fancy tape machine during tracking.

[jduggerParticipant]

I just figured out this one for myself.

Use the input channel configuration to define a pair of the available 48 input channels to stereo one.

Then, assign that channel using routing to a USB return from the computer.

Easy Peasy!

(for what it’s worth, I went with all mono returns, but if you wanted to do things like stereo compression on the USB returns I can see where stereo channels make a lot of sense.)

[jduggerParticipant]

It’s really a genius feature. (Tie Lines)

I have the SQ-6 — 24 inputs is really plenty for me — but it will be very nice to dedicate the ST1 and 2 inputs to external preamps or processors.

With Nuendo there’s automatic handling of external processors, and this allows me to wire in those devices and makes them very easy to use and integrate into the studio.

It’s taken me a bit to get used to what the SQ-6 can do — it does much more than I need — but I’m pretty impressed with it.

[jduggerParticipant]

Does it matter?

Low latency is really important when you are round-tripping audio through the computer, but the whole reason I went with a digital mixer instead of a traditional audio interface is doing things like cue mixes no longer require it!

[jduggerParticipant]

Thank you.

So, groups are essentially the same as the old 24-bus tape assign switches, and auxes are, well, aux submixes.

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