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Originally Posted by Nubus
A question from another thread here piqued my intrest. I know that PT offers metering pre and post fader, so you can make sure you aren't clipping the tracks individually in the mixer on playback as well as while recording to disc. Some programs (Reason for one) it doesn't seem to make a difference if the channel faders are all +12 and the master is at oh -18 to avoid clipping or whatever. Does anyone know of other recording apps that have pre/post metering?
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The reason that you need that in protools is because of how the digi DAE works in the higher level Le systems. You have to monitor from software using 001 and 002's. Most interfaces will have a separated app where you do your monitor mixes. Some examples are MOTU's Cuemix and RME's Fireface Mixer. These programs allow for virtually latency free monioring and because the mixing dsp is happening inside of the interface allows lower cpu overhead.
The advantage of this is that you can leave your faders at 0 and the meters will mirror the input and alert you of overs. One advantage I have found in Sonar is that on each track you can either elect to listen through the track with latency or you have a hard bypass which does not monitor the track at all. This allows you to completely delegate monitoring to the interfaces dsp chip further lowering cpu overhead.
One disadvantage of interface based monitor mixing is the lack of plugin support. So unless you have outboard reverb or comp, you can only monitor dry signal. Some interfaces (focusrite's and TC's come to mind) are overcoming this problem by haveing more dsp power inside the interface along with effects racks for the monitor section.