Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In

The Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In combines StudioRack Software and eMotion ST Studio Mixer to capture your best performances and perfect your productions. With SoundGrid at the heart of your studio, you can record and monitor with plugins in real time, mix plugin-rich sessions, and collaborate more easily with other musicians, producers and engineers.

The Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In incorporates StudioRack Software and a fully featured eMotion 64-Channel Studio Mixer. This mixer, used in conjunction with the StudioRack plugin, lets you monitor while recording—with plugins—with very low latency.

SoundGrid Studio is the software controlling your SoundGrid-powered system for real-time processing and networking. It includes the SoundGrid Studio control panel and the eMotion ST studio mixer. With SoundGrid Studio at the center of your studio, you can:

Record and monitor via a SoundGrid audio interface, with plugins running at ultra-low latency (as low as 0.8 ms).

Boost your mixing power by easily offloading your plugin processing to a SoundGrid server.

Easily connect multiple computers, DAWs, audio interfaces, synths, controllers and other devices to the same studio system, using SoundGrid Studio’s all-new Patch section.

The latest version of SoundGrid Studio adds many new exciting features to your studio:

Build sessions of any size quickly and easily, via a new layered interface that can replace your hardware-based monitor management system.

Cross-check your mixes quickly across multiple sets of studio monitors, using the all-new customizable control room section.

Empower musicians to record their best takes by sending them multiple personalized headphone mixes, simultaneously, with the ability to customize their monitor mixes with a click of a button.

Set up and manage all software and hardware components in your SoundGrid network using SoundGrid Studio’s new automatic device recognition and mapping capabilities.

As your needs evolve over time, you can expand your system and configure a studio setup of any size – from a single DAW with one SoundGrid audio interface, to a flexible super-network of multiple computers, interfaces and servers.

Harness SoundGrid to your studio in order to record, mix and create more powerfully than ever.

Record & Monitor with Plugins in Real Time

Plugins can help musicians find the right sounds and textures during rehearsals and recording sessions. But your computer adds latency; and running plugins adds even more, since you need to increase your DAW buffer size. All this makes it almost impossible to monitor with plugins and record tight takes.

With SoundGrid Studio, a SoundGrid audio interface and a SoundGrid server, the incoming audio signal completely bypasses your computer’s CPU, bringing real-time monitoring and recording to your sessions. Musicians can hear themselves, with plugins, and without any perceptible latency – helping them nail their best takes.

Supercharge Your Studio: More Processing Power

Producing and mixing large sessions with many channels and plugins is today the norm. But large plugin counts can overload your computer’s CPU and slow down your creative process.

SoundGrid Studio boosts your plugin processing power. It can receive up to 128 channels from your DAW (via the free StudioRack plugin chainer), and offloads all your plugin processing to a SoundGrid server. (You don’t even need a SoundGrid interface – use the audio interface you already have!) You are then free to focus on producing and mixing with as many of the industry’s best-sounding plugins as you want.

NEW: Custom Control Room to Cross-check Your Mixes

Not all monitors are created equal. To get your session ready for the outside world, you need to cross-check your mixes on multiple sets.

The new SoundGrid Studio introduces a customizable control room section that lets you toggle easily between 3 sets of studio monitors for quick comparison – without the need for a traditional hardware monitor management system.

NEW: Give Musicians Personalized Headphone Mixes

To nail their best takes, musicians often ask to hear specific tracks in their headphones. Adjusting their monitor mixes during a session can take time to route, and might kill the vibe.

SoundGrid Studio lets you create multiple custom headphone mixes, on the fly. You can send different headphone mixes to multiple musicians at a time – up to eight in the free 8-channel and the 16-channel mixer versions, or up to sixteen in the 32 and 64-channel versions. You can toggle tracks in and out of what the musicians hear – all with a click of a button.

NEW: Add 3D Headphone Monitoring

For an enhanced headphone monitoring experience, insert the SoundGrid-compatible Abbey Road Studio 3 or Nx Virtual Mix Room plugins (sold separately) directly on your SoundGrid Studio headphone and control room mixes.

These plugins provide spatial three-dimensional audio on headphones, giving musicians a more comfortable and natural monitoring experience while recording, and reducing ear fatigue during long recording and mixing sessions.

Collaborate Easily: Connect in Seconds

SoundGrid Studio lets you quickly set up and manage all the audio interfaces, drivers, and SoundGrid servers in your flexible SoundGrid network. Need to patch more computers, DAWs, synths, samplers and hardware processors? Configure them instantly in SoundGrid Studio’s all-new Patch section.

Collaborators can easily integrate their devices into your studio, using as little as one SoundGrid-compatible Ethernet cable. SoundGrid Studio’s new automatic device recognition and mapping will quickly configure your flexible network of devices, letting you set up faster than ever.

Expand Your Studio Flexibly as Your Needs Evolve

SoundGrid is easily scalable – from a single DAW with one SoundGrid audio interface, to a super-studio with multiple computers and up to 14 audio interfaces. Connectivity is a breeze, with single Ethernet cables connecting everything to anything – even when your studio is spread across multiple rooms.

NEW: SoundGrid Studio’s latest “I/O sharing” feature lets you share the same SoundGrid audio interface between multiple computers, for unprecedented flexibility in your studio.

Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In Features

• General Features
  • Software for your SoundGrid real-time audio processing system
  • Includes the SoundGrid Studio control panel & the eMotion ST mixer
  • Mix plugin-rich sessions by offloading processing to a SoundGrid server
  • Record & monitor with plugins in real time (SoundGrid I/O required)
  • Collaborate easily by quickly patching DAWs, computers & controllers
  • Custom control room to toggle multiple sources & monitors
  • Create up to 8 personalized headphone mixes
  • Option to add 3D headphone monitoring via the Abbey Road Studio 3 or Nx plugins (sold separately)
  • Stream audio between up to 14 audio interfaces
  • Share the same audio interface between multiple computers
  • Customize your mixer layer for a quicker, focused workflow
  • Stream up to 128 mono plugin channels from StudioRack
  • Personal headphone monitoring control via the MyMon app
  • Automatic Monitoring Sync for REAPER and Bitwig Studio
• Studio Rack
  • Compatible with most native DAWs
  • Bridges Pro Tools HD and HDX DSP with the SoundGrid DSP server in order to process plugins in low latency while recording
  • Compatible with Waves and third-party plugins
  • Plugin chains used for low-latency monitoring are instantly available for mixing as well
  • Up to 8 plugins per rack
  • Fully automatable
  • Presets for plugin chains can be saved to and loaded from any DAW
  • Plugin chain presets saved on StudioRack can be loaded in MultiRack, and vice versa
  • Quick access to plugin parameters within your chainIntuitive MIDI control over all plugins
  • Avid Control Surface support
• eMotion ST Mixer
  • 8 multi-purpose mono/stereo input channels
  • 2 stereo FX aux buss/returns and 6 stereo aux buss/returns
  • Up to 64 mono channel feeds from StudioRack plugins
  • 8 insert slots per channel for SoundGrid plugins
  • Connects to multiple SoundGrid-compatible devices and hostsCompliant with SoundGrid-compatible Waves and third-party plugins
  • Fully integrates with StudioRack
  • Enables use of SoundGrid plugins as standalone processors for any purpose

Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In Specifications

• System Requirements:
  • Mac:
    • CPU: MacBook Pro / iMac / Mac Mini with Apple Silicon (with macOS 12 and up), via Rosetta, MacBook Pro / iMac / Mac Mini with Intel i5 CPU or Higher, MacBook Air Laptops Are Not Supported
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Disk Space: 8 GB Free Disk Space On the System Drive
    • Operating System: 10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.3
    • Screen Resolution:
      • Normal: 720p to 4k (Auto Scaling is Enabled by Default)
      • Recommended Resolution with Scaling Disabled: 1280 x 1024 / 1600 x 1024
  • Windows:
    • CPU: Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon
    • Memory: Minimum: 16 GB RAM
    • Disk Space: 8 GB Free Disk Space On the System Drive
    • Operating System: Windows 10 (64 bit), Windows 11
    • Screen Resolution:
      • Normal: 720p to 4k (Auto Scaling is Enabled by Default)
      • Recommended Resolution with Scaling Disabled: 1280 x 1024 / 1600 x 1024

Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In Includes

• License Key

Waves StudioRack + eMotion ST Software Rack Plug-In Included In

• DiGiGrid IOC
• DiGiGrid IOS
• DiGiGrid IOX
• DiGiGrid MGB
• DiGiGrid MGO