
Waves SoundGrid was first introduced to the market place as a solution for live audio engineers (FOH and Monitor) who required real-time processing, through the application called Waves MultiRack. As the gap between Live and Studio engineers has become narrower and these jobs overlap, we wanted to provide a solution for these engineers to take their tools that they are so familiar with from use in the studio, on the road with them. Waves, being a leading audio plug-in manufacturer, we recognize the needs of the audio market and fortunately have the ability to turn these dreams into reality.
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Waves has been manufacturing hardware and software solutions for several years: the L2 Hardware unit processing systems, MaxxBCL, the Y16 Yamaha card and MaxxBass, are all part of a long list of hardware products that we have created. When did you start to get the idea that hardware offerings were needed, and why? What made DiGiCo the ideal partner to form DiGiGrid? Waves is known in the audio community for its software.
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Once this connection is established, the end user will have the option to aggregate additional SoundGrid Compatible hardware devices to the system, stream audio between Pro Tools and up to eight different Host applications, and even offload plug-in processing to an external server. The DLS hardware and accompanying SoundGrid Studio software work as a bridge/tie-line between these two systems. The first solution is for Pro Tools HD /HDX and HD Native users, allowing it to maintain the operation and functionality of Pro Tools HD software and hardware and simply “add” on the benefits of Waves SoundGrid to an existing system.

This specific hardware and software solution is tailor-made for various types of users. A built-in network switch makes it easy to connect multiple workstations. It provides DSP power for hundreds of SoundGrid-compatible plug-ins while also supporting 64 channels of audio from your Pro Tools hardware. The DiGiGrid DLS is an Ethernet audio interface and SoundGrid DSP server for Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|HDX systems. This solution is comprised of both hardware and software.

The DiGiGrid DLS is one piece of a larger infrastructure and solution named Waves SoundGrid, which provides processing and networking solutions to the Studio and Live Market place.

From the 10,000-foot level, how do you define DiGiGrid DLS? Is it a hardware solution, software solution, or both?
