Topic: Digiface USB basic setup questions
Hi all,
Apologies for the noobish questions in my first post here. I'd like to rehaul my recording setup into something actually proper, after reaching the limit of my patience with OSX-clocked aggregate audio devices and other terrible ideas like that. Digiface USB looks like it could enable this rehaul quite well, but I just want to make sure I'm planning this correctly before I drop 800 EUR on this plus a couple of ADAT interfaces.
I'd prefer to be able to record from 18-22 analog inputs, and route audio to 12-16 analog outputs (in addition to a main mix and headphone mix). I have a MOTU Ultralite Mk4 that has ADAT in + ADAT out + 6 analog inputs + 8 analog outputs (besides main and headphones), and I'm considering buying two Behringer ADA8200s which each have ADAT ins + 8 analog inputs + 8 analog outputs.
Here's how I imagine the setup, where Digiface is the clock master over all the other interfaces (via its ADAT outputs):
Digiface outputs:
- Digiface ADAT output 1 => Ultralite ADAT input, which syncs the Ultralite and sends it up to 8 channels of audio
- Digiface ADAT output 2 => ADA8200 #1 ADAT input, which syncs ADA8200 #1 and sends it up to 8 more channels of audio
- Digiface ADAT output 3 => ADA8200 #2 ADAT input, which syncs ADA8200 #2 (and I wouldn't need to send this audio)
- Digiface ADAT output 4 => Expert Sleepers ES-3 (Eurorack module for DC-coupled output) ADAT input, which syncs the ES-3 and sends it up to 8 more channels of audio
Digiface inputs:
- Digiface ADAT input 1 <= Ultralite ADAT output, which sends 6 channels of audio to the Digiface
- Digiface ADAT input 2 <= ADA8200 #1 ADAT output, which sends up to 8 more channels of audio to the Digiface
- Digiface ADAT input 3 <= ADA8200 #2 ADAT output, which sends up to 8 more channels of audio to the Digiface
Would this work in terms of routing and synchronization? And when I record, the Digiface USB would be the only audio device I interact with in the DAW, right?
By migrating into this setup away from my failed experiment of an aggregated Zoom L-20 + MOTU Ultralite Mk4, I would be giving up standalone (without a host computer connected) monitoring, but I'm hoping that this setup would minimize my roundtrip latency (I like to monitor my DAW, and I also send timing-critical clock and CV signals out of my audio interface) and have no inter-device synchronization issues like the ones I've struggled with when aggregating audio interfaces through OSX Audio MIDI Setup.
Thanks all.