Liquid Mix Multi-Channel FireWire Mix Processor

Liquid Mix Multi-Channel FireWire Mix Processor Specifications:

• VST/RTAS compatible host
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Home, Professional, or Media Centre Edition) or Windows Vista (32bit only)”OS Version subject change
• Min version of ProTools required - 7.0 if planning to use the included FXpansion (earlier versions will require the full Fxpansion VST wrapper)
• Windows XP compatible PC (Pentium 4 2GHz or higher recommended)
• 400MB/s IEEE1394/FireWire port (OHCI compliant recommended)
• DVD drive required for Installation
• CPU/Clock: 1.4 GHz Intel or compatible; 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or Xeon recommended
• Memory (RAM): 256MB or more; 512MB or higher recommended

• AU, VST, RTAS compatible host
• Mac OS X Panther (10.3.9 or later) - OS Version subject change
• Min version of Logic required - Logic 7.1, but 7.2 highly recommended
• Min version of ProTools required - 7.0 if planning to use the included FXpansion (earlier versions will require the full Fxpansion VST wrapper.)
• Computer: Apple Mac Power PC G4, G5 or Intel Mac (any)
• CPU/Clock: G4/800 MHz (minimum); G4/1.5GHZ or higher recommended
• Memory (RAM): 256MB or more; 512MB or higher recommended
• Firewire chipsets from TI (Texas Instruments), VIA, and NEC are recommended
• It is highly recommended that Liquid Mix be run on its own Firewire bus/card
• In order to use Liquid Mix with a 4-pin IEEE1394 port you will need a 4-pin to 6-pin cable (not included) and must use the PSU (included)

• AMD processors have unique compatibility requirements. Focusrite has determined it is definitely possible to run Liquid Mix on AMD processor-based PC computers. However some problems have been documented with AMD Dual Core 64-bit machines involving conflicts between a number of connected devices. For example, if you try to run a FireWire sound card and Liquid Mix on the same bus, you may experience CPU spiking, crashes, or poor performance of the FireWire devices themselves. Tests have revealed these problems can be avoided by running Liquid Mix on a separate PCI FireWire card. That is, it should have its own PCI or PCIe card which isn't shared by any other FireWire devices.
• Latency: Due to the round trip transmission which is required on the firewire bus, a delay equal to 2 x the audio buffer size + 8 samples is incurred. This sample delay results in different amounts of time delay depending upon sampling frequency. With a DAW buffer size of 1024 samples (ie, Liquid Mix latency of 2056 samples), the Liquid Mix latency is as follows:
• 47 ms @ 44.1kHz
• 43 ms @ 48kHz
• 23 ms @ 88.2kHz
• 21 ms @ 96kHz
• 11 ms @ 192kHz
• With a DAW buffer size of 256 samples (ie, Liquid Mix latency of 520 samples), the Liquid Mix latency is as follows:
• 12 ms @ 44.1kHz
• 11 ms @ 48kHz
• 6 ms @ 88.2kHz
• 5 ms @ 96kHz
• 3 ms @ 192kHz

• The card is suitable for those people interested in operating at sample rates of 88.2 or higher. The channel count increases as follows:
• Channel counts:
• 44.1kHz/48kHz: 32 channels mono, (16 stereo) unexpanded. No change with expansion card
• 88.2/96kHz: 8 channels mono, (4 stereo) unexpanded. Expansion card provides 16 mono/8 stereo
• 176.4/192kHz: 2 channels mono, (1 stereo) unexpanded. Expansion card provides 8 mono/4 stereo