Rme + hdx

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by 7Seas

Thank you for your answer.
I think I understand kind of ...

So... Suppose I have a Burl mothership with a digiport (I wish...) with 16AD and 16DA + a Forsell MADA-2.
I connect the Forssell to the RME.
I connect the Burl to the digiport in the HDX.
I then create an aggregate device with Apples midi coreaudio app adding the RME to the Pro Tools one already existing (pro tools aggregate I/O).
Will this work? I can't test this because I don't presently have any interface with digiport.

No, you cannot mix HDX with any other playback engine.

[LukeHoward]

Originally Posted by 7Seas

Thank you for your answer.
I think I understand kind of ...

So... Suppose I have a Burl mothership with a digiport (I wish...) with 16AD and 16DA + a Forsell MADA-2.
I connect the Forssell to the RME.
I connect the Burl to the digiport in the HDX.
I then create an aggregate device with Apples midi coreaudio app adding the RME to the Pro Tools one already existing (pro tools aggregate I/O).
Will this work? I can't test this because I don't presently have any interface with digiport.

You can add the RME to the Pro Tools Aggregate I/O device but as I explained earlier, you cannot use this simultaneously with the HDX card from Pro Tools (other applications can use it at the same time as Pro Tools is running with the HDX playback engine, however).

Pro Tools can either use a CoreAudio device, or HDX directly, not both (and you cannot get around it by aggregating the HD CoreAudio driver with another CoreAudio device – Pro Tools must talk to the HDX card directly).

[7Seas]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

No, you cannot mix HDX with any other playback engine.

Originally Posted by LukeHoward

You can add the RME to the Pro Tools Aggregate I/O device but as I explained earlier, you cannot use this simultaneously with the HDX card from Pro Tools (other applications can use it at the same time as Pro Tools is running with the HDX playback engine, however).

Pro Tools can either use a CoreAudio device, or HDX directly, not both (and you cannot get around it by aggregating the HD CoreAudio driver with another CoreAudio device – Pro Tools must talk to the HDX card directly).

Completely clarified.
Thank you both