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INSTALLING THE 896HD HARDWARE

USING THE 896HD WITH A MIXER

While there are many ways to use the 896HD with

an external mixer, typically the 896HD serves as a

multi-channel “pipeline” between the mixer and

the computer. If your mixer is analog, connect the

analog section of the 896HD to your mixer. If your

mixer is digital, and it has ADAT optical I/O, you

can connect them optically as shown below in

Figure 3-4. Add more 896HD’s for additional

banks of eight-channel I/O. The 896HD’s available

analog and AES/EBU inputs and outputs can serve

as an extension to the mixer I/O, but then you will

probably ﬁnd yourself mixing in two places: the

mixer and the computer. A word of advice: if you

would like to use the 896HD with an external

mixer, use the mixer for mixing. Trying to mix

large multitrack projects in two places can become

very cumbersome very quickly.

digital mixer

ADAT optical

synthesizers

synths, samplers, etc.

Figure 3-4: Using the 896HD with a digital mixer.

FireWire

8-channel digital I/O

Mac

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