Topic: Question about routing from MADIface to ADI 2
Hey guys, I'm new here.. I'm sorry if this post is in the wrong place.
Anyway, I was a user of the original ff800 for about 10 years, and that's when I fell in love with RME. For a few years, I was trying out other intefraces, but nothing was stable enough.
In the end, a few days ago I settled with this combo:
2x Antelope Orion 32 HD gen3
RME MADIface
RME ADI 2 pro fs r Black edition.
For a few years I was using just the orion 32hd, but it was unstable. The software was just terrible, and it lost me a lot of money. I really like the conversion though, and I mean.. where else can you find that many decent ADC's for that amount of money? I tried the ferrofish a32, and didn't like it at all So I just wanted to get rid of the antelope's USB streaming and connectivity, and their terrible and buggy software. So I figured, why don't I just conect them over MADI to something else and more stable?
That's when I decided to go back to RME and connect my 2 Orions over MADI. And I thought, while I'm spending my money, why don't I buy a better DAC than I already have, since some times I am doing some mastering for clients. It can't hurt having a better DAC while mixing or recording, right? I mean, I had ff800 for 10 or 12 years (I don't even know anymore) and it never had a hickup. It was just a workhorse (but then I was doing alright with having 8x8 IO, and now I have a lot of stuff that I use every day). Also those converters are a bit outdated now, but I digress.
Now, here's the question. Since I'm also a music producer and I play a bunch of instruments. Most of them (synths, Kemper etc) are connected to the Orion's analog inputs via DB25.
Now, for a few days, before I got the ADI 2 (pro fsr be lol) I used to monitor what I'm playing directly over the MADIface. Or should I say - I was using direct monitoring from the MADIface.
Kudos to the guys that made the new mixer, it's pretty intuitive, and I like it.
But, now that I'm monitoring trough ADI 2, I can't get my head around how to monitor directly from the inputs of MADIface? This new mixer is unfamiliar to me, and I think that it's really intuitive for some frequently used stuff, but I can't figure out how to rout the MADI's output to the ADI 2.. I guess I should send the master from MADI via AES/EBU to the ADI, right? Does anyone have any ideas?
Btw, now and then I'm getting some weird dropouts during monitoring. It happens on the MADIface and ADI 2 both. Even if I'm just playing an youtube video.. Not sure if I just need a master clock generator (thinking about getting an antelope OCX HD), since MADIface is utilized as the master clock right now.
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work!