So just to spice it up we are running the Discrete 4 under USB and the RME UFX+ under Thunderbolt. You can use both but surely its better to be safe than sorry and all that.Ĭonnections: Both the Antelope Discrete 4 and the RME UFX+ are both USB and Thunderbolt-equipped interfaces.
#PROTOOLS 12 MULTIPLE AUDIO DEVICES DRIVER#
This is very important and while Aggregate Devices can work without Word Clock using the inbuilt CoreAudio Drift Correction system, we strongly recommend that is better to have hardware clocked at source at the hardware end rather than in software once it gets to the driver software and the DAW.
One of the other key features of these units is that they both have standard 75ohm Word Clock I/O. Gear: For this example, we are using an Antelope Audio Discrete 4 Synergy Core and an RME Fireface UFX+, which both have 4 mic preamps.
#PROTOOLS 12 MULTIPLE AUDIO DEVICES HOW TO#
In this article and video, we are going to show you how and also advise you on where the pain points are and how to sidestep them for a macOS setup. How often have you run out of microphone inputs on a session and wish you could just plug in that old interface and make use if it’s 2, 4 or 8 mic pres? What you may not be aware of is that you can, by creating and using a Pro Tools Aggregate Device. I’m quite sure that many of you will have a “spare” or “old” audio interface hanging around in the bottom of a cupboard or on a shelf not being used. If you have more than one interface to hand, this technique to help you build a larger, stable Pro Tools system to enable you to record with a greater number of inputs without the need to scrap or sell your old gear and buy the next great, bigger and better interface. If you are running Windows, don’t worry, James will explain how to do this in a subsequent article.
In this free tutorial from Pro Tools Expert, Technical Editor James Ivey shows you to make the most of your 32 channel I/O count in a Pro Tools Native (non HD) system by using the Aggregate Devices feature of both Pro Tools and macOS. Successfully using Aggregate Devices in Pro Tools is at best a dark art and at worst a total car crash.