Admittedly that number is a very healthy 32 channels but I particularly like working in a hybrid fashion so wanted at least the option of being able to expand beyond that limit. This also meant that I was fixed in the amount of Dante channels I could have active at any one time. I ideally need a minimum of 40 Dante channels active at any one time, but going up to 64 if I have everything on at once.
#Avid hdx Patch
I found myself having to enable or disable channels in Dante Controller in order to patch things in. In addition to those, I had a few other Dante capable devices, a Focusrite X2P, a couple of Audinate AVIO converters and several computers running Dante Virtual Soundcard. The first one was that I had exhausted the 32 Dante channels with two Focusrite A16R Dante converters that I use primarily to allow hardware inserts for my analogue outboard. It was actually a bit more complicated than that - the Focusrite Red 16Line is a tremendously good device but it wasn’t without a few issues.
#Avid hdx upgrade
When Pro Tools HD was replaced with Pro Tools HDX I dipped out of using Pro Tools for a few years and went with an Apogee Rosetta 800 firewire 8 channel interface with my Mac Pro, which was a fine device for the time (and in fact I still own it) but I had a hankering for getting back into a Pro Tools DSP-based system so bought myself an HDX system using a Focusrite Red 16Line as the interface, which introduced me to the world of Audio over Ethernet, via the Dante protocol, which I discussed in my article Dante For The Small To Medium Sized Project Studio a few months back.Īt the end of that article, I said that my future plans were to upgrade to either an Avid MTRX or MTRX Studio interface, due to having used all of the 32 Dante channels that I had available in the Red 16Line. Back then, I knew Logic much better than Pro Tools and I loved having access to all of Logic’s MIDI tools with the Digidesign DSP plugins. For my way of working Pro Tools HD was simply brilliant because I could, at the time, use the Digidesign hardware with Logic as the software front end.
Oh, how things have changed.įrom there I graduated to an RME Multiface and then to my first Pro Tools HD system in around 2002.
#Avid hdx driver
I don’t remember too much else about that machine but I do remember constantly having to deal with driver issues plus I do not believe it was full-duplex, meaning I couldn’t hear what was being recorded into the computer at the same time as playing audio back. My first sound card (as they were called back then) was an Emagic Audiowerk 8, that I had in a Pentium 133 computer. As such, I only worked briefly with analogue tape, then with a couple of digital tape solutions (Alesis ADAT and Tascam DA88’s) before dipping my toe into the world of computer-based audio recording. When I started in audio we were right on the cusp of computers being fast enough to record and playback audio, rather than just MIDI. In this article, he explains why the Avid MTRX was the interface for him and why he chose the MTRX as opposed to its new little brother the MTRX studio. James Richmond has recently taken delivery of a new Avid MTRX.
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