[creativecontrol]

Greetings,

I believe you are referring to Thunderbolt 2 and 3. Yes - you can simply use an Apple TB3 -> TB2 adapter to attach HD Native Thunderbolt to a qualified Mac workstation.

DigiLink and Dante (using something like a Focusrite PCIeR card) will give you good latency values. DigiLink can connect 64 channels at any sample rate. The IP Core chipset on the MTRX ST will also support 64 channels at any sample rate.

The Focusrite PCIeR card will work well for this application - however FF has announced that it will never work with new Apple silicon FYI. This may or may not be a concern for you.

DVS - Dante Virtual Soundcard is great for editorial - but not viable for many recording use cases due to latency starting at 4ms.

Using a FF based playback engine (Core Audio) would currently be limited to 32 channels of IO.

HDNTB with a low hardware buffer setting will give you very good latency values.

A new 7,1 machine could use HDX, HDN or HDNTB. HDX and HDN would alleviate the need for external adapters and connections.


best,


Jeff