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9. Appendices
Appendix A: Servers
Waves SoundGrid Extreme Server
System Description
RAM
Motherboard
LAN Card
Waves SoundGrid Extreme
Server
8 GB
ASUS Rampage IV Gene
OnBoard Intel
The benchmarks below are for general reference, illustrating how many racks and plugins can be
run on this particular server. The following plugins were used for these tests: C4 Multiband
Compressor, SSL E-Channel, IR-Live, and L3 Multimaximizer. Each rack was fully loaded with a
specific plugin until maximum load was reached. M-Waves cards were used as audio interfaces
in these tests.
Server Benchmarks
Test 1
Test 2
Sample rate
48 kHz
96 kHz
Latency (roundtrip total)
40* samples / 0.83 ms
80* samples / 0.83 ms
SSL Channel Stereo
512 instances
288 instances
IR-Live
30 instances
18 instances
L3 Multimaximizer
158 instances
64 instances
C4 Mono
512 instances
288 instances
Minimum Network Latency Settings
44.1/48 kHz
88.2/96 kHz
40 samples
80 samples