Say „DiGiGrid" and you think of hundreds of Waves plugins running live, simultaneously, with latency too small for anyone to notice. This isn't a classic hardware maker with a single founder's story — DiGiGrid is the product of a partnership between two industry giants: the Israeli company Waves Audio, founded in October 1992 by Gilad Keren (a recording engineer for major Israeli artists) and Meir Shaashua (a musician and physicist who met Keren at a recording studio back in 1982), and the British digital-console manufacturer DiGiCo, formed in 2002 out of the acquisition of Soundtracs. Waves debuted the world's first-ever audio signal-processor plugin — the Q10 Paragraphic equalizer — opening up an entire product category that's now a standard fixture in every DAW.
The two companies' collaboration dates back to 2009, when Waves needed a live-sound partner for its new SoundGrid networking technology, and DiGiCo was the natural choice given the thousands of digital consoles already running the protocol. A few years later, in 2012–2013, the DiGiGrid brand was born — a line of audio interfaces connecting Pro Tools users, native DAWs, and MADI-enabled devices to the SoundGrid network, in both the studio and live settings. At the heart of the system is a Linux-based DSP server running on Intel processors, capable of processing hundreds of Waves plugins in real time at sub-millisecond latency — without loading down the host computer at all.
At Wired Tunes we carry DiGiGrid interfaces — from the compact, desktop D, to Pro Tools HD bridges (DLI, DLS), to MADI solutions for larger installations. It's gear for engineers working in both the studio and on tour who want access to the entire Waves plugin library right in the signal path, without any compromise on latency.
