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Waves Soundgrid Server (DIY) screenshot
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Transform your computer into a Soundgrid Server.
With any Intel based computer (extra computer), one can create a custom Waves soundgrid server to offload Waves plugins.

SoundGrid servers are the “number crunchers” that process audio in a SoundGrid network. Audio is streamed from an ASIO, Core Audio or SoundGrid audio interface to the server, processed by the server (instead of your computer) in low latency, and streamed back to the audio interface. Audio connections are established using a SoundGrid host application.

Important notes:

This will work with only Intel CPUs with motherboards that has Intel's Gigabit NIC
This is, bootable media.
Only 4GB Storage is needed. So technically, even a pen-drive can be used as the OS drive.

This is old version, so after completing booting, users may need to update the firmware.
The procedure is exactly same as updating an actual Soundgrid server (sold by Waves and Digigrid). If anyone has the latest Soundgrid Studio installed (R2r and VR both supplied that) then the updating part takes some minute or so.


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comments

  Resident 11.05.2013 7 256
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Olymoon Thank you so much it's very interesting ! merci beaucoup
  Member 13.03.2018 29
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I would like, but I do not understand anything .. I am French and the Google translate translation is not great, I do not understand how to use this, I am sad ..
  Member 26.10.2020 1 4
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J'ai mis 15 jours mais ça marche
  Member 26.10.2020 1 4
+21
Viens en mp je t'explique
  Member 2.05.2022 6
0
Je serais aussi intéressé :-)
  Resident 31.10.2013 83
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Very interesting. Already using two slave PCs with Vienna Ensemble Pro, I will have to try this sometime. Now I wish I had a spare PC for this!
  Resident 6.02.2016 8 454
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I'd say give also a try to AudioGridder - unlike Vienna, it directly streams plugin GUI into your DAW, so you can use it to offload plugins without need of remote desktop :)
M1 Mac Mini (16GB/2TB), Reaper, ADI-2 DAC
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
+340
Trust me, when this starts to work, you will stop other things.
Because, Vienna has issue with Automation and Audiogridder has high latency.

Just think this.
This one intel CPU will do nothing, exactly nothing BUT DSP CALCULATIONS. This is why it is so powerful and fast.
Up until now, people never had a taste of Waves Soundgrid DSP offloading.
Once they get the taste, there's no way going back.
Trust me.

I know, what you will be doing actually, in near future after this works for you.

Start mixing at 96kHz (Lesser Foldback aliasing).
Offload all waves plugins (Like SSL Strips on each channel, Some 1176, LA2/3a, some Abbey road reverbs, even NX or Abbey road studio for monitoring through Headphones) to this dsp and use your own PC to use other brand's plugins, like fabfilter, soundradix, plugin alliance, soundtoys etc.

Your mixes will have lesser foldback aliasing.
Your pc will be able to run 100s of plugins due to dsp offloads even at 96kHz sample rate.
  Member 24.04.2019 8
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Been up all night messing with this... Sound Grid USB on i7, 32GB
Pro Tools and Waves on i5 8GB
No Luck at all.

Should I take my video card out and use the MOBO video card.

Help, I'm almost there.
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
+340
You will need a spare PC with Intel CPU and a MOBO where you have Intel 1 Gbit NIC.
Nothing else is needed. 4GB Storage and 8 GB memory is all you need.
Virtual Machines won't work.
I have tried to quote the instruction I could find in reddit.
  Member 13.07.2020 2
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anyone got this working?

can't really understand the instructions in the comments
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
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here
It runs smooth in my case.
  Member 11.04.2014 30
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Can I have it running on my surface book 2 ? I have surface dock with gig ethernet port though....
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
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it needs a just an intel cpu, a gigabit NIC and some 4-8 GB RAM and nothing else. Why use surface book.
Get a cheap Motherboard with Intel NIC and Intel i3 or i5 and 4-8 GB of RAM.
That's it.
  Resident 15.08.2012 1176
+273
pretty legendary, anyone got it run?
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
+340
here
It runs smooth in my case.
  Member 26.10.2020 1 4
+21
For me to. It's work great with V12
  Member 21.02.2020 1 309
+340
Here is a PDF, which will help everyone out.PDF

Please read it.
  Member 22.12.2011 102
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Got this working finally and Boy was it a headache
thanks for the share
cant wait for other 3rd party devs to support this !
  Resident 15.08.2012 1176
+273
audio/crossgridder has rendered this pretty much obsolte or didnt it?
dugan automixer
  Member 2.05.2022 6
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the Comment has been Removed
  Member 2.05.2022 6
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Unable to launch in soundgrid studio, my server boot gets stuck on commandline message:
"ext4-fs (sda2) mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. opts 0"

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