H9000 and presonus studio 192 interface, what’s my best bet??

I have this exact setup.  I use my Studio 192 as the main interface (probably swapping out for an Avid MTRX Studio as soon as it’s available). I use the ADAT I/O from and to both to chain them together, so that I can send audio from my DAW through the 192 out ADAT, into the H9000, and back from the H9000 ADAT out to the 192, into the DAW.  I’ve setup the H9000 as an external hardware using Pipeline XT, exposing each pair of stereo outs through ADAT.

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Hey, I recognize you guys from the Fractal Audio forums! I have an H9000 coming on Monday, so I am just lurking around seeing what is posted. I also have a similar setup to you guys. Excited to compare notes in the future. Thanks for all the posts so far, I am realizing a bunch of things about setting up the H9000.

Not gonna use it for live use. I have an H9 and a separate Axe FX-3 in a rig for that. This is just going to go into my desk and connect to an Apollo X6 into Studio One. All your guys posts have my head spinning on the I/O, but I think for now I am just going to do 8 analog in/out and 8 ADAT in/out.

Cool thanks for the links. In hindsight I should have gotten the Apollo x8, but I run everything into patchbays anyways and I think I will just plug the analog I/O of the H9000 into those. 

Got the unit today and did all the basic setup. From what I have read in the forum on Windows 10 using the USB channels is not an option if you are using another interface like the Apollo? I saw a YouTube video of someone making it work as an aggregate device on a Mac in Logic. Bummer if that doesn’t work on a windows machine. It would be a nice simple setup as far as cables are concerned.

Thanks for sending the instructions for the aisoforall setup. I was going to try it, but when I booted up the H9KR I started getting that clock mismatch audio has been muted USB bug that I thought I had stamped out yesterday. I kept switching from 44 to 48 until it eventually went away, but seeing it pop up again just made me pull out the USB connection and I have just been using 8 ADAT and 8 analog with no problems. The Dante thing is really intriguing. I do a lot of ambient stuff with guitars and synthesizers and want to pretty much replace all FX Plugins with the H9000. I have no experience with Dante, but it seems like it could be the answer to some projects that have tons of fx on lots of different tracks.

Yeah if UAD had an Apollo interface that supported Dante that would be very powerful. I searched around and it doesn’t look like anyone is integrating Dante into interfaces. I would upgrade if they did, besides I am kicking myself for only going with the 6 Channel Apollo in the first place.

Yes, that’s it.

That’s an astounding similarity! 🙂

Aggregate devices are unfortunately only possible on macOS.

edit: I take that back. Looks like AISO4All can create aggregate devices, but I haven't tried it yet…

I had it working with ASIO4ALL, but there’s additional latency introduced to deal with it related to the sample size chosen. I don’t think the input latency is horrible, but if you’re tracking drums live, against a click track or whatever, you’re going to feel it.  Setup instructions are here.

This additional information won’t be useful if you don’t have Dante, but this is for others that may show up to the thread and have Dante.  I ended up using Dante to get around this.  You can either use DVS or Dante Via to manage it, or skip those all together if you have hardware based Dante devices.  I can effectively aggregate up to 64 channels through Dante in real-time using Dante Controller to manage what goes where.  My H9000R has a Dante card.  From there I can send data from and to anywhere based on analog or digital internal routing of the H9000R, like a highly capable electronic patchbay.  Now, that I have the MTRX Studio connected up though, I can really route audio anywhere, with super low latency.  Right now I’m seeing about 375usec of delay from any source to any destination through Dante.  I have 8 receiver and transmitter devices (Mic Pre’s, Headphone Amps, ADAT In and Out, ~138 I/O’s) that use Dante and the entire setup is managed via Emote, Dante Controller and DaDMan software.  It’s incredibly flexible and since the H9000 series has Dante, it’s pretty tough to beat.

I tried out ASIO4ALL with the H9000 in a couple of different setups and had some mixed results. For example, I tried out the H9000 by itself and as part of an aggregate device with my USB DAC, and I had some good results with both setups even at very low buffer sizes. However, I tried aggregating my H9000 with a different USB audio interface and I kept getting some pretty bad dropouts and crackles no matter how I configured the buffer settings.

I attached the ASIO4ALL settings that were giving me good results with my DAC. If you get crackles or dropouts, try increasing the ASIO Buffer Size and/or Buffer Offset. Otherwise, you can try to get lower latency by decreasing either of those settings. Also, keep in mind that each device you add to the ASIO4ALL aggregate has its own buffer settings. I suggest enabling and configuring each device separately before trying to put them together.

This isn't really a bug, just a consequence of how the H9000's asynchronous USB audio works. When you want to change sample rates, make sure to change the sample rate on the H9000 first before changing the sample rate on your computer. Or, if both your H9000 and your computer are set to the same sample rate and you're getting this message, you should be able to fix it by switching to a different sample rate on your computer and then switching it back to the H9000's sample rate.