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Originally Posted by zakco
I've heard this argument a million times and I just don't get it.
The only time latency is an issue for a properly designed native system is if you're tracking with plugins on the INPUTS and need to monitor the effected signal.
I wouldn't call that a small problem. I have tracked about 25 albums with actual real playing musicians in Cubase SX/SXII. When working mostly ITB, the above is an serious obstacle, and the only way I found to deal with it was to say "hey, look... this isn't a real recording system, but we can make it work." Because time and again, and more often than not, people will want a reverb, or an comp, or some kind of fx which might be the whole point of that particular track.
Sometimes, the latencey can be to much even without plugs for some drummers.
The thing is that latency IS an issue with the native apps, and that is a bad workflow killer.
PT LE has in addition the major drawbacks of no ADC, and reduced track count. I still use it all the time for location recording, but it is not useable for tracking a real band.
Cubase is, it's really possible to track bands with cubase.
It's just that, latency IS an issue.
I long ago moved back to TDM,
The irony is that, in a studio with a very good console, very good outboard.
this big difference between TDM and Native is unimportant and Cubase works fine in most cases, but you still have the odd drummer which can hear even the no fx latency.
So latency IS an issue, it's being talked about in a native studio.
In TDM, since ADC, latency issues are simply a thing of the past.
If one can justify the expense, TDM is simply a more musicians friendly format.