
Okay so that's a bit of an oversimplification, but it's along the "correct" road. Software and hardware working together for a better life. The same way the latest versions of CUDA produce rapid, accurate, clean, clear video graphics using pipelines in a dedicated discreet graphics card with it's own ram, the external audio processing provides that perfection to pro-tools. This functionality takes the workload off your main CPU, and splits it among many other "Cores" or sub-processor pipelines. AAX was designed primarily to run on externalized audio processing units that drive almost perfectly latency free audio (I'm talking 5ms on down to.

The math may be the same general algorithm, but how that is handled in the processing is very different. With the new i9 and the latest AMD's, along with faster PCI lane SSD's, you can get nearly latency free audio roundtrip, but it may slow on occasion based on your running background processes.ĪAX was designed as an audio pathway with a very direct implementation.


These days, powerful processors hide behind harmless looking visuals.
