8PRE in Standalone.

[jhaskill]

Hey Folks,

Tyring to read up on the 8PRE as much as possible and I think I know the answer to this but wanted to verify before making a purchase.

I currently have a RME RayDAT and want to connect 3 or 4 8PRE's to the RayDAT via lightpipe/ADAT. I do not want them to connect via firewire, maybe only for new firmware. So the only connection to my computer would be via ADAT I/O.

I know the 8PRE's only have (besides ADAT) a L/R monitor and headphone out. Here is my question. I would use these in a live mixing scenario so could I use the monitor outs on these devices as outs from my audio console software, not Cuemix. If this would work I would be limited to 6 monitor outs, and 3 headphone outs. I thought I read that when in standalone mode the monitor outs don't work, but everything gets routed through ADAT. My goal is to have my audio console software use the 2 L/R monitor feeds on one of the 8PRE's as FOH and the others as monitor mixes.

I hope I explained this clearly.

Thank you.

[1nput0utput]

When the 8pre is in the standalone mode, the main outputs and the headphones output are disabled.