Period.Īndrew Scheps, Mixing Engineer, Producer (Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica)
#AVID HDX PRO#
It's the most efficient Pro Tools system that exists. I couldn't possibly mix on any other platform than the HDX cards with the Hybrid Engine. Home studios will be able to do more with just a one-card system, and major facilities will be able to keep costs low. This means that all HDX configurations-including single-card HDX Systems like the HDX Thunderbolt 3 MTRX Studio Bundle-now have the same, incredibly high voice limit.Īs a result, smaller, streamlined systems will be able to take on bigger sessions with greater ease. With the June 2021 release of Pro Tools | Ultimate, the native voice limit increases to 2048 at all sample rates-over twice as many as a typical three-card system.
The Hybrid Engine overcomes this challenge by letting you work with thousands of native voices alongside HDX's onboard DSP. Even with three cards and 768 voices, DSP headroom can evaporate fast amid hundreds of mono tracks, surround tracks, and plugins. In audio post production, where massive mixes are commonplace, this presents a big challenge. Without the Hybrid Engine, HDX is limited by a maximum number of voices-256 per card-which puts an upper bound on session size.
#AVID HDX UPGRADE#
And with these powerful new capabilities, when you upgrade your computer, you'll be able to realize its full power and still get HDX's unique capabilities on demand when you need them. This has the added benefit of reducing system delay, which directly improves the fader and knob responsiveness of a control surface. It also eliminates round-tripping when using native and DSP plugins on the same track. The Hybrid Engine enables you to run bigger sessions more smoothly because it can use native and DSP voices at the same time. The result is a significant boost to performance. Then, when you need to supplement your CPU or record with near-zero latency, it gives you immediate access to HDX’s onboard DSP. It runs your session on your host computer, taking advantage of its robust computing power. For example, inserting a native plugin after a DSP plugin causes round-tripping between HDX and your host computer that eats into available voices.īy contrast, the Hybrid Engine splits processing between DSP and native mix engines. Also, HDX can be inefficient when using native and DSP plugins on the same track. For users that work with high track counts and plugin-heavy sessions, like big Dolby Atmos mixes, this can be constraining. But "determinism" also means a hard and fast voice limit that puts a cap on session size. The power of HDX is that it essentially eliminates recording latency-sub-1 ms-and delivers deterministic, reliable performance. Apart from native plugins, which run on your host computer, your entire Pro Tools session is handled by its 18 DSP cores and two high-performance FPGA chips. Without the Hybrid Engine, HDX does the heavy lifting for mixer functions and DSP tasks. So, you might wonder, since HDX Systems are well known to handle the most demanding sessions in both music and audio post production, why is the Hybrid Engine such a game-changer? And as a current HDX user, why do I need it? Here are a few compelling reasons why. This intelligent hardware-software integration, which was introduced along with Pro Tools | Carbon, lets you move seamlessly between DSP and native processing at the touch of a button. The Hybrid Engine is now available for HDX Systems.
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