Summing in the Interface

[Martin Naef]

Niall

Niall Munnelly wrote:
> The interface matters if you want it to perform the summing
> duties, instead of a DAW.  I haven't investigated claims

But I still don't know why you'd want to do that. All these interfaces 
provide mixing duties for low-latency monitoring. I don't think they 
implement anything particularly clever that would give the slightest 
advantage over even a basic implementation on the PC.

> that summing out of the box via an external summing mixer
> {Speck X-Sum, Dangerous 2-Buss, Phoenix Niceriser and
> others} or some audio interfaces is superior to mixing in

All these external summing mixers are analogue, and hence impart some 
kind of characteristics onto the sound. The MOTU mixer, for example, is 
just a small DSP.

> the box too deeply.  I did hear a difference between, say,
> Samplitude and Live 5/6, but I was basically guessing in a
> Cubase 3/Samplitude shootout.

With Sam vs. Live, I guess you'd pretty much tried the two extremes of 
the scale, with Live traditionally needing to be *fast* whereas the 
Samplitude line of software comes from top quality studio work where 
performance is not so much an issue.

Martin

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