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"The PCI card mux's the outs into a firewire cable that goes to the MOTU and demux's to feed 8 outs. (So it is not 8 physical cables from the computer to the MOTUs."

OK, so you said that you were not using USB, that it was just PCI cards...and now there is a Firewire send involved? Did I miss this bit of info somewhere along the line?



Okay, not PCI CARDS. PCI CARD. One card. One single card.

The PCI card sends multiplexed data to the MOTUs with 1 (but up to 4) firewire cable and demux's back to 8 channels at the MOTU box, from where you have 8 outs to feed the mixer. The PCI card has 4 firewire outputs, and RB sees all of them, clearly defined as 424-1, 424-2, 424-3, 424-4 in the output drivers section. The card, made by MOTU, is designed to feed four of the 2408 rack mount units, which this very card did with both of these MOTUs (and 2 more) at a studio in LA. And I did a video chat with the guy I bought the stuff from and saw it work as he was teaching me a few things.

Now, John Silvertones hit on something quite provocative when he mentioned MME/WDM and referred to "4 PAIRS OF OUTS." I never looked at it that way. 4 pairs, obviously 4x2 being 8.... when I try to send to that 9th out there is no mo mojo to be sent.

As much as I whine about this kind of stuff, I LOVE IT!!! Discovering, learning, experimenting, deducing during troubleshooting, expanding my knowledge base and idea pool.....