Colin, post: 457534, member: 47940 wrote: Hi Recording O, I'm thinking of miking my drums with my Scarlet 18i8 and having a separate audio interface for my vocals and guitar. Would it hurt to have two interfaces plugged into the computer at once all the time, and switch back and forth? My DAW's are Ableton and/or Logic Pro
Thank You!
-Colin

Nope it is painless. On a Mac you can aggregate them, so you don’t have to jump back and forth, disabling one or the other. You can also use both at once.

Depending on the connectivity of the second interface, and your session sample rate you could use your adat and/or spdif connections to combine the interfaces. This assumes they’re not already being used.

My preference would be for the latter, but both options are perfectly acceptable.

Good

Thank you

Hi, I'm lookin into the Apollo Twin Quad Thunderbolt. Is there any reason why it would be hard for me to aggregate with the Scarlet 18i8 2nd gen?
I have an iMac running Logic Pro X.
Gracias.

Colin, post: 460534, member: 47940 wrote: Hi, I'm lookin into the Apollo Twin Quad Thunderbolt. Is there any reason why it would be hard for me to aggregate with the Scarlet 18i8 2nd gen?
I have an iMac running Logic Pro X.
Gracias.

I have another question. I only have 1 thunderbolt slot in my iMac. I'm about to use that 1 slot to plug in a extra monitor (screen) so that I can have duel monitors. I am aware that I can get a y splitter thunderbolt or hub. Would that down play the speed or cut off the connectivity to my Apollo Quad? I remember that when I used a USB hub with my Scarlet it would stop working out of no where. Then I eliminated the usb hub, the Scarlett would perform without disconnecting.
So all, in all, would a thunderbolt hub slow or disrupt the Apollo??

Thank you guys!

Colin, post: 460534, member: 47940 wrote: Hi, I'm lookin into the Apollo Twin Quad Thunderbolt. Is there any reason why it would be hard for me to aggregate with the Scarlet 18i8 2nd gen?
I have an iMac running Logic Pro X.
Gracias.

Should be painless.

Colin, post: 460535, member: 47940 wrote: I have another question. I only have 1 thunderbolt slot in my iMac. I'm about to use that 1 slot to plug in a extra monitor (screen) so that I can have duel monitors. I am aware that I can get a y splitter thunderbolt or hub. Would that down play the speed or cut off the connectivity to my Apollo Quad? I remember that when I used a USB hub with my Scarlet it would stop working out of no where. Then I eliminated the usb hub, the Scarlett would perform without disconnecting.
So all, in all, would a thunderbolt hub slow or disrupt the Apollo??

Thank you guys!

As far as i know, TB is designed with daisy chaining of different types of devices in mind. The apollo wont get close to using all the available bandwidth on the TB connection. Usb audio devices like to not only have there own dedicated port, but have nothing else on the same usb bus to the motherboard. Sometimes several ports will be connected to the same data bus on the mobo and cause issue with usb audio.

Once again, your service is greatly appreciated kmetal !

I'm pretty sure aggregating devices would mean the slave device(s) would get resampled.

I've decided not to aggregate. I'm going to step up and invest in the UA that has enough I/O for my drums.