I have six Aurora 16's currently in use on 2 Mac Pro's (also a couple of 8's running on mobile rigs)
Each Mac Pro system is connected with a single LT-FW card and 2 LT-USB cards
I need the LT-FW card as along with it's 16 analog I/O's I also connect a Cranesong HEDD/BURL B2/Lavry Gold AD/DA and a a couple of Bricasti M7's via AES
Everything works fine and is 100% stable (I'm using an aggregate device to run in Cubase and PT)
I clock all the convertors via WC using a Apogee Big Ben
I've decided to change one of the Mac's over to a PT HD Native system and wanted to check what I need to do that correctly
I only want to use 3 of the Aurora 16's and am hoping to get the most I/O's possible
The PT Native PCIe card has the Primary and Secondary ports
If I get 3 x LT-HD cards what is the best way to link the Aurora's to it and what track count options will I have?
I only really need 8 AES channels as I can use the Bricasti's as analog on my console rather than having them as hardware inserts in Cubase/PT
The reason I'm a bit confused is that the Sound on Sound review suggests I get 32 channels (16 analog & 16 digital) per card
'...use an Aurora 16 with the same card, and you'll have access to 16 great-sounding analogue and 16 digital channels — so 32 channels of I/O in total — in a single 1U box...'
But the LYNX website says
'...16-channel mode provides one instance of the 16 x 16 analog in and out model...'
Also will I still be able to use the 3 connected Aurora's in cubase via an aggregate device or is this not possible when connected via LT-HD cards
Thanks very much for any help you can offer
Edited by sniperschool - April/25/2015 at 4:16pm