This answered my question about needing to still use the software for the old interface. I upgraded from a Profire 2626 to a Clarett 8Pre USB for a lot of reasons, but the biggest one was getting away from Firewire. Now that I know this I'm going to go with the OctoPro 8 so I don't have to worry about that different software but thank you so very much for sorting this out for me!!! I run Protools 12 with the Clarett 8Pre USB with the OctoPre 8 extpansion. I have an ART MPA II, and two DBX 386 going line in. All tubes have been upgraded to get a little more warmth.

Thanks, that was helpful. I just picked up the clarett 4pre to connect to my clarett 2pre which i've had for years and finally outgrown. This answered all my questions

Nice video. However I just learned something yesterday that may help people viewing this video. I called focusrite and was asking about my pro 40 being connected to a new 18i20, after some talking with the guy named Ryan, he informed me that focusrite has a deal going on for people with older devices such as my pro 40. I send in the pro 40 and in turn they give me 50% discount off of a new one. For me the 18i20, at half price. Can’t beat that. Gotta wait a little bit for all the shipping back and forth but I think that a pretty good deal. This is my experience with focusrite as of 11/22/21.

Hey BOB ✌🏽... ARTAX's DRUMMER... nice video... it's contente is useful for who will buy a "second hand" equipment... older maybe... and these information will help nock up / connect them and put them up and running ASAP... CHEERS MATE...

This is the video what i looking for since 2008!

Dude!!! You just saved me a LOT of time from this video! Thanks for this!!!! Tampa Drummer

helpful indeed bro Your drums sounds amazing I am running a Scarlette 18i20 + upgrading with a Clarette Octopre.. there are actually very few video of that, it will definitely benefit the community Merry Xmas !!

thanks for the video, I've been trying to connect an old digidesign 003 to my 18i20 and is driving me nuts !

You should make a video on how to setup the focusrite saffire pro interface

Great vid. Super easy to follow. Turns out I had it reversed. I thought my new RME interface was supposed to be master (it's supposed to have one of the best clocks in the market.) I'm not too happy about sacrificing that but I really do want to take advantage of my LS56's additional channels. Thanks again for the good work.

is using a focusrite brand soundcard and mic preamp better?

Thank you great explanation and Tight drum sound! Is the final audio processed or Dry?

Hi, thanks for this video. It's been really helpful. Can you please help me confirming if you still need to connect the firewire interface to the computer? I want to get rid of firewire.

Minor question: where did you find such a short toslink cable? The OCD part of me needs to know!

Thanks for this video! I have a follow-up question: I'm looking to do essentially the reverse of what you've shown - i.e. I'm looking to daisychain two Scarlett 18i20 (2nd Gen) interfaces so that I can have double the *outputs*, rather than double the *inputs*. How should the routing be configured in Focusrite Control to double the number of outputs?

Thanks for this. I'm about to upgrade to an M1 Mac mini. I've been holding off cos I didn't want to give up my Pro 40. If my plan works, based on this, I'm going to pick up an Audience ID14 (ADAT port) and demote my Pro 40 to OctePre duties in standalone. I still have a 2015 imac here on High Sierra so I'll always have access to Mix Control for config. Fingers Crossed! Thanks again, dude.

Nice job! I'm looking to record my band really soon and I have the 1818i and want connect another interface to handle drums and the rest of the vocals, sax, keys and guitars. Thanks.

4:32 I thought you said you need to have both interfaces connected to your computer.

Nice

hi i do like adat in the past i had 4x m-audio delta x 44 so i got 16 channels note it was not for making music if i needed to analog sound from say spot on line i could fill all the tracks on my computer and play all 16 tracks in and out not a have some ace reel to reel deck studio ones just love the sound of the soundcraft 760 decks adat is a right pain all that rew of the tapes after you have recorded the tracks using reel to reel has that sound to it the new reel to reel logic is not as good

Thanks a lot for this vid it helped me alot

Thanks, It's really useful! Cheers!

Excuse me, I need your help, please... I have a Clarett Octopre connected to a Clarett 4pre interface and I just need one ADAT cable from one to another... Why in your case you need two ADAT cables?... I ask because Im looking for 16 channels at 96khz but I don't figure out the setup I require, maybe you know more, Thanks

I would love some help linking a clarett 8preX, Sapphire Pro40, and an Octopre MKII Dynamic.

Great tutorial! Great kit and set up. Thank you. I have 1x Clarett 8pre USB and 2x Liquid Saffire 56's for my drum recording... plenty of mic inputs/ins/outs. I find that the MixControl doesn't always save Sync Source settings when saving to hardware. How do you find it? I will be syncing everything over word clock but sending audio over ADAT... I worry that settings won't save if I have the Clarett + 1x Liquid Saffire set as a slave. Fingers crossed. Still waiting on all the cables to be delivered.

This helped me. Cheers

You can connect two or more interfaces on a Mac using aggregate device setup…..very handy!

Nice, this is great help! What are those tom mics you got going, they sound great.

Thanks so much, Bob! Please, allow me one question: Do you think this would also work with 2 Firewire audio interfaces of different manufacturers. I've the Focusrite Saffire you have, and an RME Fireface 400.

Wonder if my Digi 002 console and Safire pro14 will work together.

Cracking set up!

Hi! 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 solo 2i2 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. Please also make more videos for 18i20 with audio recording using many mic inputs and DAW. Tanks in advance.

Can i daisy chain Presonus 1810c to a Presonus firestudio for extra channels??

Nice! I connect UAD Twin X (TB3 on Win) and PreSonus 1024C thru Optical. Same time guitar and Moog Sub37CV from UAD preamps goes back to PreSonus/. That can go to iPad, with midi and all two synths + guitar or else without changing wiring :) Cheers!

Do you know if the Saffire Pro 40 works to connect with the Focusrite 18i20 ?

Hey GREAT video! I am struggling to set up my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 as the main interface through Mix Control to me Behringer UMC1820 as the "slave" if you will. I cant seem to find any "software" for the Behringer, equivalent to 'Mix Control' in terms of settings and routing, that will allow me to change the set up of the Behringer once changing thesettings of the Saffire Pro 40. Any thoughts? Cheers

Hi I have Scarlett 18i20 and Saffire Pro 40. Use windows. But how do I start Saffire MixControll when Saffire Pro 40 is not connected to my Laptop? Scarlett 18i20 is connected to my laptop. Do I need to get a friend who have a Mac so I can open up MixControll and set up Pro 40 there? Regards Tom Anders

Can I daisy chain a Saffire and Scarlet ? I get annoyed I have to restart my laptop to get firewire to work, I was thinking of getting focusrite scarlett 18i20, and using my pro 40 for extra channels through optical... which would be great because I can just plug in USB from focusrite scarlet and get to working right away.

Great video 👍I have bn using a Saffire pro 40 and have now purchased a saffire 56 plus a Behringer adat 8000 so my Q is am I able to connect all 3 to iMac via fire and adat optical???? Uh

i have a question.. i have tried those steps but i still can't connect audio interface.. i use Presonus Fire Studio 2626 and Yahama Steinberg QR824.. i also already connect with ADAT cable and Wordclock.. can you please help me? Thanks

Great video!

i want more analog outputs... can any of this spdif or ghey-dat stuff plug into a box that gives us more analog outpus?

so helpful thanks so much. I'm connecting two Saffire Pro40s and got it all working except I can't get the headphones working on the one that's not connected to the computer. do you know how i would route the mixes or DAWs out to the second interface for headphones? (Linking with the same 2 ADAT cables)

Hi Bob! Thanks for this video. I have a Focusrite Sapphire Pro 56 and I am going to be hooking it up to my Apollo x 4 via ADAT. I have a question tho.. Let’s say I were to get a new MacBook Pro and the legacy Sapphire software is not supported by it (as you mentioned).. then may I program the Sapphire on my old Mac (who OSX version DOES support it), save the settings to the Sapphire Pro 56’s hardware, and then not have to worry about it again because it has already been configured to connect to my Apollo? To put it short, once the Sapphire is set up, do I need to really access the legacy software interface again? Or are we good?! I hope that made some sense. Thank you!

What about 88.2 kHz?

If I am understanding you correctly I can’t link two Focusrites audio interfaces together using SPDIF

Will this work if one of your interfaces isn’t recognized by your computer but the other newer interface is? Is it a simple audio share between the two interfaces or does the computer need communicate and recognize both

Ive been meaning to do this for ages, really appreciate the video. So i was going to replicate your setup exactly so i know it works, I already have a saffire pro 40 but i cant find the clarett 8 pre anywhere. Do you think the octopre 8 is the replacement for that model? Also, do you think another saffire pro 40 would work? Im running into a MacBook with usb c so already have the double adapters, are we saying you would have to have 2 sets to do 2 x saffire pro 40s? Thanks so much

Using 1 Pair of Studio Monitors with 2 Different Interfaces Simultaneously? I have a pair of HS8S going into my Apollo Twin X through balanced TRS cables. Could I also connect the HS8S to my Behringer UMC 404 HD using the additional separate XLR ports at the back while simultaneously connecting both interfaces to two separate computers (MAC & PC)? I want to utilize the HS8s Monitor as feedback for both interfaces while switching between the Mac and PC without having to disconnect my monitors from either the Apollo Twin X or Behringer UMC 404 every single time. Is this safe or is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

What about using two of the same interfaces? Do both need to be connected via usb or just the "master"?

I just bought a focusrite pro 14 and bought the FireWire to Thunderbolt connecter but it is not showing up as an output option how do I fix this?

I'm using 2 motu 8 pres interfaces. I only see the first one in protools 9. I tried making the external motu the clock source but it doesn't change the inputs in pro tools. Any suggestions?

Hey hey, I added an octopre to my focusrite 18i20 (18i20 is my main interface). finally got focusrite controls to see an adat signal. However, i'm not seeing any adat track/input whilst in garage band. all I see is inputs 9-20. nothing resembles adat. Any clues? Thanks!

Hello! Do you know how I can connect two preamps to one interface? I already have one that works very well but I want to get another one that has a door and integrated de-eesser. I need it, search but can't find any information online, I really appreciate your help

tnx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does the Pro40 require being plugged into the Mac via Firewire, or does just the Clarett need connecting to the Mac? Reason I ask is because I'm trying to do the same thing with a Behringer UMC 1820 and a Pro40 with a PC and the Pro40 just straight up will not connect to my PC (it connects and then instantly disconnects itself without warning). Cheers!

Does it work on windows? I have Focusrite 18i20 and Tascam 16x08, is it possible to connect those two?

Looking to use 2 Saffire Pro 40's to run a total of 16 outs analog to my mixing console. Can i chain them together. If so, how?

Hey man, how are you? I’ve a studio in Brazil and I’m looking for an interface that gives me 32 I/O. My first option was Presonus Quantum 4848, but I noticed it was discontinued and there’re some people with problems without answers in the company website… Then I discovered Orion 32 + Gen 3, did some research and noticed some people complaining about the company support… Im in Brazil and it’s very expensive to send an unit to be replaced, and it takes time either. So it’s much better if it’s a reliable equipment… Did you ever hear about problems with Orions 32? Now a days I have two VRS 8, but some of their outs are completely failed and they don’t work well together. I really need a solution here! Kkkk My system should be: 32 inputs into the interface, then 32 outs into my analog console (Soundcraft GB8). Do you think Orion is a good choice?

Can a saffire Pro 40 be used as a adat expansion for another interface without using the firewire cable on the Pro 40?

Really helpful but very quiet.

Do I need to connect both the interfaces to the computer? I have only a firewire port

S/PDIF, The Sony Philips Digital Interface 😊

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I got a Focusrite liquid 56, just updated to big sur then watched this vid fuuuuuck! downloaded the mix control software seems to be working but haven't tested yet as iv just ordered the dongles from usbc to firewire hope it works.... as i just spent 2k on my new studio and all spent out but with no working interface whats the point! burn it all to the ground 🤣🤣 fml

11:47 didn’t you need to set up an aggregate in your daw

hey what if your linking two 8 input focusrite scarlet interface (the red one) instead of two different interfaces linking the same ones

is that an Aberdonian/NE Scotland accent?

Hi what rack is that?

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Great info ...but please lose the useless muzak ...music is designed to be listened to ,having it happening while trying to hear what you are saying is really distracting and just plain annoying..ask yourself why you put it there

Background music is repetitive and annoying.

stopped watching at the moment you said you're using a mac and tons of adaptors

Can I use 2 pcs of pro 40 as preamp with a PCI card via ADAT?