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Description
The Waves MultiRack is your ultimate live sound companion, transforming how you harness the power of Waves' renowned plugins on stage. Designed as a virtual patchbay plugin, MultiRack seamlessly integrates with your setup, enabling you to use your favorite studio plugins in live performances without a hitch. Imagine replacing bulky rack units with the convenience of a laptop and multi-channel audio interface. That's the revolution MultiRack brings—streamlining your setup while elevating your sound.
MultiRack offers a user-friendly interface, allowing you to create up to 64 racks, each capable of hosting eight effects/processors, making it incredibly versatile for any performance scenario. Whether you need reverbs, compressors, or any other processor, MultiRack ensures you have it all at your fingertips. Plus, with full session and snapshot recall, you can effortlessly switch between setups for different songs or performances—goodbye, tedious manual adjustments!
The real beauty of MultiRack lies in its ability to provide advanced routing options without the clutter of cables and hardware. Group similar racks to share a common group name, and benefit from color-coded groups for easy visual identification. While software processing can sometimes introduce latency, MultiRack's negligible latency per group ensures your performances remain tight and focused.
Embrace the future of live sound processing with MultiRack, where the boundary between studio and stage blurs into a seamless, powerful experience.
Key Features:
- Use Waves plugins live with ease
- Host up to 64 racks with eight effects each
- Full session and snapshot recall
- Advanced routing without cumbersome cabling
- Color-coded groups for easy management
- Negligible latency per group
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Owner Insights
We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Waves MultiRack.
Features and functionality
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MultiRack's Global Tempo cannot be directly controlled with a custom MIDI button; external MIDI clock sync is required.
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MultiRack is designed to handle buffer, stability, and prioritization issues more efficiently, minimizing processing and conversion latency, especially when using Waves' live plugins.
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Software and compatibility
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Users report setup with Yamaha CL5 involves using 16x16 SoundGrid interfaces and a Mac Mini, highlighting tedious MultiRack ins and outs configuration.
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MultiRack's resource monitor shows server load, not host computer, causing confusion in memory usage readings between Windows and OSX systems.
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Users highlight that Waves MultiRack is optimized for seamless plugin I/O, reducing system resource usage compared to running full DAWs like Reaper for live applications.
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Use cases and applications
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MultiRack Soundgrid allows audio continuity even during hard power-offs, though control is lost until reconnection, causing a brief audio interruption.
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MultiRack is particularly beneficial in live settings where precise latency management is crucial, such as when processing paired inputs like snare top/bottom or bass DI/mic.
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Setup and maintenance
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Reinstalling MultiRack Soundgrid on Windows can potentially resolve discrepancies in server load readings when compared to OSX.
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Mentioned by FOH engineer Dan Green in this AudioTechnology magazine article about the Ghost Stories Tour.
AT: Are you concerned that if you’re using analogue preamps and/or outboard — routing in and out of the SD7 — you’ll get a bit of phase smear?
DG: I had a few concerns on that front with the drums. What I’m doing is using Waves’ MultiRack [live sound plug-in platform] where I’ve made a dummy plug-in group and I can send every drum-related channel to that group. So regardless of whether that drum element is sourced from an analogue mic pre or a digital plug-in, it becomes aligned. I’ve also done that with other groups of instruments that need to be phase-aligned, and I think that sorts out any kind of latency issues.
AT: Can you tell me a little more about the Waves MultiRack setup?
DG: Well, take, for example, my kick drum sound. I’ve got three kick drum channels. I’ll do a bit of basic kick EQ’ing or processing on the SD7’s console channel, I’ll route those to a group and process the three channels together. In the Waves MultiRack, as a group, I’ll apply a filter and then that goes into an API compressor, and then into an H EQ. By doing it that way — grouping and processing those kick channels together — it helps glue the sound together a little more. Which means if I want a bit more click on my bass drum, rather than EQ it I’ll push up the more clicky microphone which then doesn’t affect the way it fits with all the processing. To me this approach sounds nicer than EQ’ing it in isolation. Then I’ll save that clickier kick drum submix as a snapshot for songs where the bass drum needs to cut through some more.
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