The scarlet 18 – I 20 has its own power supply. So does the octoPre. The octoPre cannot be used as a standalone interface for your daw. It's design is to expand other interfaces via adat.
>From Chad's iPhone > On Jan 13, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Nick Gawronski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Good suggestions does the presonus require any external power or does it > run off of the computer's power? I will have a look at both of those > products you talked about and does the box you connect to your main interface > to expand it have any USB connections on it? Will it work as an audio > interface on it's own? Nick Gawronski > >> On 1/13/2016 6:31 AM, Steve Sparrow wrote: >> Hi Nick well myself, I use the motu 896 mark 3. It has 8 very good mic line >> prees. It connects with fire wire or Usb. I also have a focus right box that >> has 8 more mic line prees. it connects fire optical cables. s on it. so i >> can record up to 16 tracks at once if need be. can’t remember the model >> number of this thing, but i’ll get it if you want it. >> >> As far as the control surface, i use the mackie control surface. H t h >> If you want a smaller set up, there is also a presonus baudio ox that i use >> with just 4 mic line prees, and that’s about all it’s got. certainly not the >> sound of the motu, but gnot bad at all really, ood enough for out in the >> field recording. >> Steve >> >>> On 13 Jan 2016, at 2:07 pm, Nick Gawronski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, What is a good audio interface that has at least 4 microphone preamps >>> and at least 8 quarter inch line in jacks and works with Pro Tools 12 >>> pritty much out of the box where I just install the drivers and start >>> recording as I plan to get the control surface later unless one exist that >>> is with the moving controls like my old Digi 003 had as I got the trade in >>> value for it and need to replace it as soon as possible more then 8 inputs >>> and outputs and more then 4 microphone preamps would be helpful of course >>> and either USB firewire 800 or thunderbult would work fine. Support on >>> windows 10 would be nice but is not really required. Nick Gawronski >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
