Hi,

Is it possible to put FW16E firewire port to an audio interface
lets say (presonus firewire )

i.e First installing FW16E into yamahs motif XF8
and then taking firewire cable to prsonus..

and then attaching presonus firewire to macbook pro

Will it work this way?

Any help regarding this will be appreciated.

A.sanyal

Yes, Firewire chaining is possible.

Macs will recognize multiple audio and MIDI interfaces, just make sure your software can.

Hi,

I am running cubaseAI 5.
How do I able to check that my DAW is capable of firewire chaining.

A.sanyal

A FEW DAWs allow multiple asio devices, Cubase is NOT one of them :(. I wish it were! I have a MOTU Ultralite along side my Motif XS. I had NO CLUE they wouldnt be able to sync together when I purchased the XS. Knowing wouldnt have stopped me from buying it, but it would have saved alot of time due to trial and error as well as research only to be disappointed in the end.
However, OS X offers a solution! Though I have not got this to work exactly the way I want it to, its probably because I dont fully understand it yet. In your “Applications” folder, there is a “Utilities” folder. In that “Utilities” folder, there is an application called “Audio MIDI Setup.app”. It routes multiple devices into a single virtual device called an “aggregated device”. You should be able to access ALL ins/outs of ALL devices added to the aggregated device. You would then use the “aggregated device” ASIO driver in Cubase. Hope this helps. Let us know.
Also, you should post this (if you havent already) in the XF forum. You will get responses MUCH quicker as ppl are there often.

I’m lost here! Why would u wanna connect one audio interface to another one. I thought that’s why they give u multiple usb and fire ports on one single mac.

It all will depend on what you need to record at one time. In a situation where you are the sole musician in your home studio, it may never occur to you that when recording multiple musicians at the same time, different problems begin to raise their head.

If you intend to record vocals (with an open microphone in the room) suddenly headphones and separate headphone mixes can be an issue. If you are recording a group the number of simultaneous inputs is an issue. And do you want to do a “live” stereo recording or are you doing separate tracks?

When you build an aggregate audio device (on a Mac) you can use multiple audio interfaces - I’m sure there is an increase in the overall system latency but this should not be an issue in most cases.

But if you are recording yourself, multi-tracking, ala Les Paul - where you are overdubbing. There is really no reason to have multiple audio interfaces. Most DAWs allow you switch to accommodate what ever you are using at the time. You do not even have to shut down Cubase to switch Drivers.