I asked the very same question and was wondering if a faster ethernet connection Woodworks a like 5 gig or 10 gig ethernet will be able to use a slave computer to do insert processing and hook up external gear as well as plugins on a slave computer that would be fantastic

Does anyone think that this would be a useful feature.. nobody uses external gear any more!!!!

On a slave computer,or same computer as daw?

Will a 5 gig fiber or a 10 gigabit Ethernet yield me lower latency and a more stable connection and also will it able to do more tracks

Has anyone achieved this or any close to this how is this possible what format is it using is it compressing the audio data

It would be great to add external effects from the slave computer...and if sync is. Problem it can be word clocked to the main daw....cause Cubase says it's Max channel count is 256 mono ins and outs...and for my situation that might not be enough... believe it or not...I need to run 2 24 track tape machines and pre amps and monitoring and outs to a digital console 128 and about 8 48 space racks of outboard gear...and at 96k . headphones.if I can run 2 or 3 slave computers with same madifx cards I can use them for the gear if vepro can do 700 audio channels...plus I plan to use a 10gb network so I assume vepro would run faster and lower latency...but Cubase has delay compensation for every channel...so c'mon..one easy thing to make my life easy...I don't want to make analog patch Bays

I thought you can use VST plugins from the slave to the host already?

In the slave vsl add a plug-in that can be routed to that computer's physical ins and outs as to use hardware effects and synths.... also Cubase only allows one driver but I have gear that can hook up via USB.thus can be used in vsl...also can route more external gear...seams simple to add.... please