2 lynx aes16e pcie cards, Protools Studio

[pie55]

Hi
I'm wondering if anyone is successfully using 2 Lynx aes 16 e cards in a pcie to thunderbolt external chassis with a new Mac Mini ( either m1 or m2 with 16 gigs of ram) with Protools Studio.



Will I need an external clock?



16 channels of i/o are from a Lynx Aurora 16 aesebu (card 1), and another 8 ins from my Audent asp880 through aes in on the Aes 16e card 2.
I'd like to work at 88.2khz. Sessions maxing around 140 tracks and not a ton of virtual instruments but a lot of plugins.



I know there area a lot of moving parts here, but I'm moving to a new studio and want to make sure I'm making the right upgrade. with out spending a pile of money.



I've been on my TDM HD 8.1.1 for a long time now and love how stable it is. I want to make sure the above system would be as stable as TDM is..


tks

[Darryl Ramm]

You effectively never need an external clock (as in a dedicate clock source - not counting boxed providing video sync).

What you do almost always need when combining converters are correct clock connections and config/setup between whenever boxes/card is the clock source and all the other boxes/cards.

So here you need a clock connection between the cards, either externally or using the intra-board clock wiring. And you need some way to clock to or from the ASP880, you can either drive the wordclock chain into the ASP880 WC input (it has no WC output), or I would assume you can clock the other two cards from an AES/EBU output on the ASP880. Most people would do the earlier. And as always all this and more will be in the product documentation which for this stuff you *have* to read.

[pie55]

thanks for the reply!


yeah right now my Aurora is the master and my 96 i/o and asp 880 are the slaves through wordclock bnc cables.
Lynx gave me a link for a cable to sync the 2 aes16e cards internally



hoping someone out there is using a newer mac (m1 or m2) with he pcie thunderbolt chassis and the AES16e cards and Protools Studio.
anyone?

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by pie55

thanks for the reply!


yeah right now my Aurora is the master and my 96 i/o and asp 880 are the slaves through wordclock bnc cables.
Lynx gave me a link for a cable to sync the 2 aes16e cards internally

And their external breakout cables from the DB-25 should give you wordclock out and in BNC connections on each card. I think you can use one of the WC Out on one to go to the 880 and keep your internal cable between cards. Make one of those cards the clock master. I like the internal cables... means it's harder to accidentally disconnect it.

[pie55]

great thanks!