Hello,

I joined the RME community as an Hifi enthousiast but I am no musician or music maker... I had been using an EMU card for 10 years and I bought an RME for better quality and best windows 10 support.

Here is how I am using pro cards :

I make stereo active speakers, 3 way, I use VST plugins to generate the active filters for the lows, the mids, the highs. These signals are sent to 3 differerent stereo Amps (Lab Gruppen) and then right to the speakers (2 boomers, 2 mids, 2 tweeters).

I use windows 10, Foobar and Qobuz.

Basicaly I sent defaut windows output to 7/8 headphones.

I use SPDIF output to collect sound coming from Ph 7/8 in the 2nd stack (Software Playback).
I click "Playback" in the SPDIF output so as I understand it is in fact recorded and not sent or both ?

I go to the VST progragm here small japanese program called "Console"

I set VST inputs and outputs, SPDIF is 9/10

I can send this stereo signal to different VST plugins to create my filters (Izotope Ozone, VST Convolver) and from these filters to the outputs.

Am I missing something, will this work for what I intend to do ?

I have been using Console as a VST host for years, don't know if I should use something different.

If i don't use the stuff right I could break the speakers because they would get unapropriate signals (tweeters and mids getting lows, volume control...)

Regards, Greg