Control Room: How to setup Monitor Sources???

fenderchris · December 21, 2017, 8:13am

hesca116:

fenderchris:

It was announced that the number of Cue Sends would be increased in the N8 lifecycle, but now they want to increase the numbers of Inserts first. Personally, I can not see the point of adding more Insert slots until the serious limitation on the number of plugins that can be installed on a Windows system is resolved.

I, and others, have been requesting more cue sends for years.

Fenderchris,

How does that limitation work?
Can you recommend a trusted source for more info about this?

Maybe I´m old fashioned but, I don´t see how 16 insert slots are useful. It just means more “over-processing”. This is the problem with modern production philosophies… adding stuff doesn’t necessarily equal to creating a better sound. If anything, we should be using less plugins and instead trying to capture better recordings from the beggining. But this is not a subject for discussion in this post.

Sorry that this thread now refers to more than one issue, but in answer to your question here are a few threads that refer to the DLL/VST Plugin limitation issue (there are many more):

On Windows operating systems it is only possible to install a maximum of 256 DLL’s or Plugins, however this limit is dramatically reduced by Steinberg DAW’s and in my experience the number installable seems to be reduced with every update.