WAVES GOES TO EXTREMES

8 August 2013

Waves has announced SoundGrid Extreme, the latest iteration of its SoundGrid protocol for live applications. The most powerful SoundGrid DSP server so far, Waves SoundGrid Extreme is designed to tackle the heaviest processing challenges and, you should agree, boasts some pretty impressive benchmarks, running over 500 instances of Waves stereo SSL E-Channel or C4 Multiband Compressor plug-ins, with latency as low as 0.8ms. Lurking inside the road-ready 2U chassis is an Intel i7 Extreme microprocessor which allows the SoundGrid Extreme to deliver over 40 percent more power than the SGS Server One. For the record it has 8GB of RAM on board. Availability in Australia is right now and RRP is around $3300 — we say ‘around’ because distributors are getting a little nervous about the Oz dollar at the moment. There are some interesting test charts at www.waves.com