![]() The Ocean Way is newer and I thought I liked the sound of it a little better,- the Abbey Road sounds slightly darker- but after spending hours with both, I like them both equally. ![]() Several times I got this sensation of "Oh shit, this must be blasting through my monitors, my neighbors are gonna kill me!" only to lift my headphones off to hear nothing. It really does feel like I'm sitting in front of speakers. You use your computer's camera to track your head movements while wearing headphones and it creates the impression of sitting at the mixing desk of either of these studios listening on speakers- with the sound changing as you move your head, like it would in the real world. They looked interesting, though maybe somewhat gimmicky. I was thinking of getting Sonarworks or ARC to fix my listening environment- but last night I was looking at a Waves plugin sale and saw the Abbey Road Studio 3 and Ocean Way Nashville headphone mixing plugins and said "why not?". I don't like using headphones much and hopefully some day I'll have a place with a treated room and all that. I'm using a combo of monitors and headphones, with most of my decisions coming from the headphones. Only bought my first monitors last year and my studio space at my current apartment moves between two rooms depending on my mood- so trying to do any kind of room treatment would be useless. Reaper works in my setup (works great!!!) running on the computer where RoonBridge resides and uses less resources compared to JR.Hey guys, been working on mixes. NOTE: During install In Optional Functionality make sure you install ReaRoute for your ASIO support!!! ![]() If you never worked with a program like Reaper (Digital Audio Application with recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolsets) it can be a little daunting, but their documentation and videos help out greatly. This program offers ASIO functionality with the ability to use VST’s. I had been trying out JR 23/64bit with a (FabFilter) VST and this setup worked as others have described.Īfter reading talking about Reaper, I thought I would give the program a try. Win10 for Core and Server 2016 for RoonBridge to Mutec to DAC Reaper is a GREAT suggestion for using VST’s and Roon. If the plugins are of good quality, you will experience no problems. Here is Minihost with asio4all and a hrtf plugin. ![]() The huge snag in the suggested setup is the disabling of the Roon zone system, which means you can actually use Tidal directly unless you need the meta feeds that Tidal/Roon provides for your local music. VST plugin feature would be absolutely super to have in Roon to get rid of all this trivial and non-optimal setups. I sell virtual soundcards on and you can find others as well. This is an easy setup that will be stable and rock solid and will solve your needs. asio4all driver to collect windows default as input, add your vst plugin, and send to whatever output. Then you can use the mentioned minihost or whatever vst host, then using e.g. Set the soundcard as default for playback in Windows controlPanel/playback. If you would still prefer to use Roon, then there is the option to send from Roon to a virtual soundcard via e.g. I’ll keep close track to what et al is doing, but for now - I’m out. But first and foremost I listen to music. The seamless integration of Tidal also works very well. In terms of metadata and now also artwork, Roon is the king of the hill. I do it because it has proved to yield the best headphone experience for me, and others using similar setups (Sonarworks, Waves NX etc). I do not resort to a set of VST’s because I want to. Although I’m happy that Roon has provided a DSP function, crossfeed is not even remotely close to sufficient for my personal needs. That is using JRiver as my primary playback software. I can’t seem to replicate these errors thus having to sort them in the infrequent yet terribly annoying group…Īll in all I’m back to square one. I’ve also had a couple of BSOD’s sourced from JRiverWDMDriver.sys. I’ve tried to adjust settings in Jriver and Roon but it doesn’t seem to work. When analyzing the audio chain in JRiver it seems like it’s trying to channel map from the source 2-ch to 16-ch. I’m getting stutters from 88.2 / 176 khz FLAC and I can’t seem to solve them with buffer adjustments. Well, turns out that this solution unfortunately is a bit flakey.
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