| I received my Lynx AES16e last week and I have had a couple flawless recording sessions. I'm running an Aurora16 through the AES16e at 48K. I have no other cards installed and no external firewire devices,. The AES16e is connected to a 2GHz dual CPU Intel Mac Pro tower.
A a separate test I recorded 8 tracks from a drum machine for 1.5 hours at a 192 buffer setting under Cubase 4 and Leopard OSX without a drop out. (normally I record under Tiger) At 48K you need to add 28 samples of extra delay not reported by the driver, 52 samples at 96K.
I used Cubase's Control Room mixer to create the headphone mix. It worked like a charm. I think I am really going to like the Control Room feature. I'm now mixerless and loving the extra space.
If I add effects the buffer size has to go up, obviously, or turning on Cubase's delay compensation seems to work, but I haven't thoroughly tested everything yet.
The digital out meters in the Lynx Mixer appear to max out a long time before the Stereo LR meters in Cubase (set to post-panner, hold forever), and I have a few other Lynx Mixer metering peculiarities I need to figure out, but so far its a keeper. For example, when the Digital Out 5 (one headphone feed) meter on the Lynx mixer output page goes into the red the headphones distort. The first red bar is something like -18dbfs, so it shouldn't distort. Setting this channels Lynx mixer fader at -18 seems to cure the problem but it shouldn't distort at -18dbfs.
Anyone else seen metering peculiarities in the Lynx mixer? |