Hello,

Until today I've been successfully running my studio with a MADI Ring (MADI Card -> Antelope Orion -> Burl Mothership).
I use the Orion to feed my control room and the mothership for summing send and the stereo return.
As I'm expanding my studio I saw the need for hardware inserts. I figured it should be possible to route a round trip from output to input via the orion and stick a patch bay in-between. I set everything up, and am sending and receiving signal from the orion - but it won't show up in TotalMix (And therefor no signal in protools). The Orion is still sending out to the control room - and the mothership is still converting both ways.

My question is: What am I doing wrong? I've gone through the signal chain and routing on the Orion and in Totalmix - and now I'm more confused then ever.

More about my setup:

Mac Pro running 10.8.5
Pro Tools 10 (Native) (Using the Insert I/O in this case)
Newest firmware (as far as I can tell) for TotalMix and the Orion

I do seem to have trouble figuring out channel assignments between the converters (and I'm not so willing to go against the MS manual, which asks not to assign more channels than available. . .)

During testing I ran everything on 44.1kHz, 24bit - And the mothership is clock master - All devices lock perfectly

- The MS has 24 channels DA and 4 channels AD
- The Orion has 16 channels DA and 8 AD (Atleast with the setup I'm trying out - if I get it to work)

I'm not sure if it's a problem with the MADI card - but I've asked around and no one seems to know a solution.

Any help - or suggestions are more than welcome!
Thanks