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Monitoring with Saffire

Monitoring with Saffire

2006-01-11 by Peter Ostry

Hi,

does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive  
monitoring?

I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not  
work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from Logic  
panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the  
engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while  
recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four.

Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but  
without the control panel?

___
Peter Ostry

Re: Monitoring with Saffire

2006-01-12 by markdvc2002

--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Peter Ostry <po@o...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive  
> monitoring?
> 
> I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not  
> work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from 
Logic  
> panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the  
> engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while  
> recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four.
> 
> Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but  
> without the control panel?

Hi Peter

I don't have a saffire, but do have a suggestion. Post this to the 
LUG? It is certainly more on topic than some of the "intel mac" 
discussions running right now ;-).

kind regards

Mark Cahill

Re: [L-OT] Re: Monitoring with Saffire

2006-01-12 by Peter Ostry

On 12.01.2006, at 08:02, markdvc2002 wrote:

> --- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Peter Ostry <po@o...> wrote:
>> does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive
>> monitoring?
>>
>> I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not
>> work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from
> Logic
>> panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the
>> engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while
>> recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four.
>>
>> Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but
>> without the control panel?
>
> Hi Peter
>
> I don't have a saffire, but do have a suggestion. Post this to the
> LUG? It is certainly more on topic than some of the "intel mac"
> discussions running right now ;-).

I am interested in your suggestions, naturally.

Just the Saffire game is over for me. I returned the first unit  
because of broken phantom power. The second unit worked a couple of  
hours until phantom power went down again. The dealer told me  
something about early series, repaired units and so on and the price  
was very low but I decided to stop that experiment, frighten the bank  
and go for a Fireface.

I started with an Aggregate Device Saffire+Firewire 410 as the  
Saffire broke. That would make the system more flexible and give me 8  
ins and 20 outs although I would keep the bigger latency of the 410.

We can go to the LUG with that if you want, I just cannot test  
anything because the Saffire will leave the studio today. Would be  
more of a theoretically discussion.

___
Peter Ostry

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