I don’t understand the love for the 8200 units. They are ok, but not great. I’d use them for an in-ear rig, but not for FOH. Maybe I would if I were exclusively doing small gigs with speakers on...

Cool. Just curious. I really wish there was a 64 bit driver for it

I have one of those cards. I don’t understand what you are doing with the eprom. Please explain. Is your card malfunctioning? Are you adding something?

Dude, I like your enthusiasm, but it’s my opinion that you are enthusiastically hitching your team to a carriage that you can no longer get parts for.

Curious, why the i3? I've never been super happy with i3 performance.

I switched to Dante. I bought a card from the AMP developer. He has a custom driver that enables stable performance down to 0/8 buffers. I run 0/16 just to be safe. It's analog level fast!

Do a search for shell2vst

When I was mixing bands with SAC I used subgroups, then I would send them to whatever outputs I needed. Main L/R, sub, house feed, video feed etc.

I'm confused. Are you just now figuring out that you can put your rig side stage and run remotely?

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I understood your point, and I mostly agree with you. I was just clarifying that you can use plugins with consoles, at least most of the digital ones. I like the flexibility that SAC and AMP offer as...

I use my Soundcraft Expression 3 sometimes and I use Waves Multirack with it.

If my ITB rig were ever going to be that large I'd most likely just get one of the many great digital consoles available.

This is a great point. It is why I haven't upgraded to the latest version and can't see myself doing so in the foreseeable future.

2/128 would be an unacceptable amount of latency for the bands I work with. The highest I dare go is 1/64 with SAC.

How much is it to upgrade from 3x?

There are a lot of free and inexpensive verbs out there. Valhalla is a good one. The Kjaerhus stuff is great and really light weight on the processor. Your only limit of instances will be your...

The biggest drawback for me is that you can't manually adjust the mic gains from the front panel. I don't like the idea of being tethered to software gain adjustments. It would feel different if the...

I was thinking the same thing.

does it report latency? Is so then no. Although there are workaround's.

I use Chainer to run some waves plugs that report latency. I only use it on outputs for things like eq's and multi-comps.

Good luck with that. I think it has more to do with ram access.

Pick up a used M-Audio Profire Lightbridge. They are cheap and effective. You'll get 32 channels of light pipe in and out via firewire. Drivers are solid. You will not get preamps, only light pipe...

Are they USB displays? If so you probably wouldn't want to use them on your audio host.

The 8200 units do not suffer from the same power supply heat issue. They run cool.