You're a genius! This is the best KZfaq video I've ever seen so far. Straight to the point! It's so hard to find this information even if you try the companies producing the hardware. Yes, I see it's a Mac thing, but still... It can't be easier! You saved me (and all of us) a lot of money! Thank you!

Didn’t get to see the adat connections themselves which was what had me intrigued. Great vid, thanks for sharing!!

thank you so much for not DRAGING out this issue with endless talk.

Discovered this a while back and it allowed me to take advantage of all the I/O I have in my studio......very cool!!!

Matt, I've been dreaming about this for a while now. I'm praying this works for me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 🤩🎧🌴

I have never saved a video faster... Thanks man!!!

Man so easy straight to the point YOU ARE THE MAN

Thank you for this video! I was able to combine my old Digi 003 with the UA Apollo x4 flawlessly! You're awesome

FINALLY A VIDEO WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE. I hate youtube musicians because they just monologue their uglyfacecam swinging their hands back and forth like I give a damm.

“I do apologize to the window users”

I almost went out to buy another Apollo before I saw this video, THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME $1000! I created a new device with my Apollo solo, and my behringer UMC 1820 to gain the UA preamps while recording a full drum kit. 10 mic inputs good to go

THANK YOU! I have only dreamt of this

THANK YOU!

SAVED ME TONS OF MONEY $$$ Thanks Man \m/

Did you explain how and where both focusrites are hooked up to the Apple?????? Are they both plugged in via USB???

Dude. Epic. Thank you so much. Just made tracking live drums soooo much easier. God Bless Ya!

Thanks brother I did not know that

amazing , thanks man

This is a really good advice which should work with Logic as well! 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

days of search and then... your video ! 10min later : i succeded to add a focusrite and a native audio 6 in one "agreggated device" and got 26 audio tracks in Cubase ! Many Thanks to U... and thanks to Apple too ;-)

This is extremely helpful, thanks! This is what I have been trying to figure out for a very long time.

Haven't tried this yet but I am going to and if it works, you just made my year!

on windows you can do the same thing when you download the free asio4all driver :)

This is amazing - thank you so much ! I had no idea when I bought Yamaha mg10xu mixer that although it is an interface, I can only have 2 out even thought it is q0 in :( I have an old Yamaha mixer with 2 in/out which I upgraded from … so I can aggregate these two plus and EHX looper which is also a standalone interface…. So glad I found this video- thought I was going to have to buy a big fancy audio interface with mixing options when I really love the yamaha mixing console….

Thank you 🙏🏾!!!

Is your focusrite audio interface connected by USB to mac, ok well I tried this and it actually works thnx

Awesome video thank you! No extra info like all the other videos

How does this affects the Console routing?

Thank you so much!!!

If this will get three 18i20 to work together, (giving me 24 channels), this is gonna be a reason for me to buy a mac mini very soon. Ive been wanting to try garageband anyway. I cant always have an engineer here at my studio, so I need a simple daw for nothing but tracking real acoustic drums with mics, vocals, acoustic/electric guitars...etc and also using EZKEYS, or NATIVE'S pianos at the same time. If this trick works, I will no longer need to unplug instruments to plug others in. I love leaving things set-and-forget in the studio.

Awesome, thank you very much!!! 👍👏👏👏

So wanna try this link up with the UA Apollo X4 & my old interface …. I hope it works gonna be a game changer if so - Thanks Matt 👍

Great Video! Straight & to the point. Dilemma & issue resolved, Thank You!

this is great, i'm just having trouble getting sound to route out to speakers now.. but i will probably figure it out :)

Thank you for this Matt!!!

Thanks Matt, that’s cool and useful.

This very very helpful.. thank you so much...

Big help!! Thank you!

Great video dude, thanks a lot.

how do you monitor the input sounds at the same time Using only one headphone output Or in other words do you need to haveThree headphone outputs Split into one?!

Thanks for the great video

I have the scarlet 18i.. Can you use ADAT from the scarlet into the MKII quad and be able to send 8 input channels through the Quad processor all clocked?

what cable do i need to connect my interfaces? I have a UAD APOLLO TWIN and am thining of getting 2 Focusrite Claretts. Can i connect all 3? someone help!

Trying to use my Eleven Rack with my new Headrush Mx5 - and I MOSTLY got this to work. I have my Eleven Rack as the clock source, and when I record with the Mx5, I don't hear anything. PT meters it just fine, and sound comes out during playback, but for some reason I can't get sound out while the track is record-armed / recording. bleh.

Did you get more latencies from this? or it doesn't affect the recording/playback at all? Sorry for bad english

Awesome. Thanks.

That's cool, but my question would be..."Can you use the apollo virtual console with the focusrites?/ now that they are all in synchronization? or it only allows you to record with forcusrite directly to the daw as it's not connected to the apollo?"

Cool video. I need to figure out how to do this on a Windows 10 PC.

Super nice!👍🏼

Awesome Video!

life savior

wow thank you. i just bought a SPDIF cable and couldn't get it working.. perhaps i need 2 cables (in and out) on both devices? This technique completely voids the need for the cable. gonna return it! thanks!

Does this have any draw backs? Am I still able to use UAD plug-ins in real time with the apollo twin inputs? Or does this make it so you can't use the unison tech in the apollo?

Thanks man!

Thanks for the tip!!Hey for general use, can you still mix all the inputs to one interfaces output to play all the audio signal on your studio monitor?

Next time you need to make a video where you’re connecting everything and the wires and explain what interface is supposed to be the output and what is your face is supposed to be the input I didn’t catch that on video

Thank you for this useful information!

I need to know how to do this on a Windows computer

This is amazing thanks heaps!

This is really cool! I have an Avid S3 and a Scarlet 4i4, and I really only need the inputs on the Scarlett, but I would like to be able to do 2 headphone mixes. Would this be possible using both as separate interfaces? I’m using output 1 and 2 on the Scarlett for the main speakers, and outputs 3 and 4 go to my headphone amp so I can make a separate mix. Can I use the S3 for a second headphone mix?

Sorry about the comment I deleted. I did not give the video enough time for the music to go away! great video! the other videos I have seen like this had loud music, crapy hip hop beats and shit going while the guy was talking..

man, I think you saved me couple hundred dollars. great video. do you know if connecting several interfaces somehow will affect overall latency. for example I run My UAD at 96, and the minimal latency I got is 2,0ms which Is really nice because I monitor my guitars through the DAW and the less latency I have the more comfortable it is to play. I Pretty sure that Focusrite via USB will have much more latency than Apollo via thunderbolt, I guess that overall latency of combined devices will be equal to latency of the slowest device in the chain. Am I Right ? thank you.

I have 1 pair of monitors (adam p11a) with xlr female outputs. And i also produce with logic. I have 1 macbook. How to connect a pioneer xdj xz mixer to an Apollo so I dont have to switch all the cables between the pioneer and the apollo?

Thanks for this. Very helpful. Do you know if this would work with the digi 003 as one of the interfaces?

I know this is old but great video Matt!

Does the apollo twin still work normally with the console and uad the plug ins? And do the additional inputs show in the console?

Cool video. Would've been great if you talked about/showed the cable connections

hello, i do agregate mac m1, apollo solo, rme ff uc + lavry on spdif, it look working.. but uad support tell me to not do, because unsync .. let's see .. cheers

Thank you Sir...

I can only hear audio in my monitor from one of the sources. Do you route the audio through the outport of the main device or through your computer, itself?

This Is great I only hace one question ! The monitoring for artist you send It from protools or from Uad Console ?

Great video! I just found it. I know this is an old video but wondering how are the interfaces connected. Are they all connected directly via thunderbolt to your computer or are they linked via optical cable. Any latency issues? Thanks!

Hello, thanks for doing this vid. I recently had a friend over to record her singing and I realized, how unprepared I was. I was trying to set her up in my makeshift vocal booth, but I couldnt do any real sound checking because I only had one set of headphones set up. I really needed to hear her levels, and hear the music, and the mix , but I realized im a dumbass. lol. I have an imac, using logic pro x. I use the Bose t4s interface on my mac. Now if im using that device to monitor sounds, and vocals in the DAW. I was thinking, I could use a second interface in the vocal booth. Would having my focusrite 2i2 in the vocal booth work for the headphone adjustments? No need for the headphone amp? Im going to combine the 2 interfaces by setting up an aggregate device. Now I have 4 inputs, and 6 outs and I can use them all. Think this will work?

can i use both the headphone monitors? cuz im having trouble getting that to work

What would the monitor/output/cue interface be?

Seemed easy enough to follow your video, but I have an issue that came up. I linked my UAD Apollo solo with my Focusrite 18i. The inputs from my focusrite seem to record fine, but the inputs from the Apollo record the audio from other tracks. If I record with the other tracks muted, it works fine, but obviously that won't do when tracking. Seems like it's routing issue, but I can't figure it out.

What about on PC? If you are ONLY doing MAC, then you should put that in the description.

I have a question! Will all of then new I/O from each audio interface added through aggregation show up in my UA Console to allow for real time plugins?

How about output?i want apollo twin's input and rme adi pro2 output. Is it poissible with normal woking apollo dsp monitoring and console?

Nice 👍🏽

Does this fix the issue of having to use the clock of something besides the Apollo? The thing I did not like is if you use ADAT in on apollo twin, you have to use the clock from the other devices you connected to it.

Has anyone had this concept work for them in AbletonLite or is it more a Protools or upgraded DAW thing?

Do you know how I can connect an apollo twin to another apollo twin? Any advise would be great. I only have 2 inputs as if right now and want to record my guitar with 3 mics.. so im thinking of buying another apollo twin or can you recommend something else? Thanks so much!

Hi! Matt very nice. I am thinking to upgrade to 4 mics from one for recording in DAW (Ableton) .at present I am using scarlet solo studio 2nd gen 2i2. with one CM25 MKII condenser mic. Please tell , is it possible to connect 4 preamps/audio interface) with condenser mics to 18i20 as inputs ? as if I have 4 Scarlett studio with condenser mics.!! It will be very helpful for me to setup for recording vocal and instruments through condenser mics as I required. Please tell how to do as you have shown. Please also meek more videos for 18i20 with audio recording using many mic inputs and DAW. Tanks in advance.

So on my mac I have one input jack that I plug my scarlet into if I get another one how will I plug both of them in? Is there a splitter I can buy to place both interfaces into the 1 input?

nice!

how can i record three microphones at the same time with this digital device ?

Does this work with adat running through two interfaces with an adat pre? So theyre running 16 inputs ?

Hello i have a tr8s and I'm trying to aggregate a Focusrite solo but when I try to setup the I/O on logic I got a message saying the drivers are not recognised, the 2 audio interfaces are working fine separately. thanks in advance

Fantastic! I just subscribed, thanks for the awesome video. I'll give it a try on my mac mini. However, i'd also like to try this on my windows 10 PC (since it's a much faster machine). I have a scarlett 6i6 (1st gen), a presonus vsl22 and an audient id4. Combining these would give me enough inputs for drum tracking :D. Please do let us know if you or anybody else figures out a way to do this on windows.

I tried running this setup with an apollo twin (thunderbolt) and a saffire pro 24. It all seems to work but i'm having trouble with the monitoring. Is there some way to achieve direct input monitoring on both interfaces with only one set of speakers connected to the apollo twin? I would like to avoid having to monitor via my DAW (ableton) resulting in latency. cheers!

hey guys, will direct monitoring with dsp on the apollo solo still work after aggregating?

Can I Use The Same Setup for Cubase on windows??? ..Plzz Reply..

The reason I want to do this is to connect 4 monitors to my AUDIENT ID 44, and a sub to my Scarlett 2i4. So my question is about volume control, I will be able to control the volume of the sub connected to the Scarlett from the Scarlett, and the volume from the 4 monitors coming out from the AUDIENT at the AUDIENT volume control?

HiMatt! this is a wonderful video. on it you mention that this is MAC OSX based correct? are you aware if there a PC version since its been 3 years now? this is really good to know man. will save me so much money fo real

Is it possible fro windows?

Will this also work in Ableton? Tried but can get it working. Please help!

THANKS!

What if one of your interfaces is firewire and the other is either thunderbolt or USB? I only have one firewire input on my mac. My current interface is an Mbox 3 pro (firewire) and doesn't have optical in/outs on it. The Mbox 3 Pro does have two firewire ports on it though. Could you connect another firewire interface there? I just worry that there might be potential clocking/sync issues using multiple interfaces. Could you still use this method combined with using word clock connections between the interfaces to ensure better sync? Thanks.

HEy there!! great video .. just made my clarett and arrow together.. but latency is killing the whothing. usieng ableton tho.. anytips?