Oct 2, 2010 6:32 PM
Problem Connecting 2 UX8s to a Single Laptop
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Hello,
I recently bought a second Toneport UX8 so I would have more inputs to record in my practice space. Both devices work correctly on their own, but I cannot have both running at the same time, one will install and the other will error out. Is this problem solvable or is this just a shortcoming of the UX8? If I can't get both working at the same time I'm going to have to return one and get a different interface to cover my needs, which I really don't want to do. PLEASE TELL ME WE CAN FIX THIS?!?!
Thanks.
-- Joshua
It is not solvable.
Also, it is not a short coming.
You can not run 2 audio interfaces at the same time.
This not just with Line6 but with all digital audio interfaces, FireWire,PCI or USB.
If you need more than 8 inputs simaltaneously, you will need a different interface.
While 2 UX8s may not be able to run from the same computer you can definitely run multiple audio interfaces from the same computer as I was running 3 smaller audio interfaces into this same laptop before getting the UX8 and continued using 2 of them with the UX8 until I pickup up the second one. Given your incorrect supporting statements I'm not sure if you're right about the first one or not, hopefully someone from Line 6 can give me a definitive statement.
That is intersting.
Are you saying you were running more than one different audio interface simaltenously where you had availbe to you their seperate inputs into your DAW?
I have seen 2 M-Audio Delta 1010's acting as a single card.
And I have read of aggregated devices on Mac's.
So I stand corrected.
Yeah, they all showed up as seperate interfaces in Audacity, Sonar, and Ableton Live, 2 of them were of the same brand and one was a different brand. The problem I'm having with the UX8 seems to be strictly a driver problem, it only seems to want to associate itself with one device.
I know they will show up as separate devices.
But could you use more than one of the devices simultaneously?
Oh, I misunderstood you, yeah, I recorded with all 3 of them at the same time to record my band's practices and whatnot.
You wouldn't have been able to use them all at the same time without some sort of driver wrapper or something similar.
Audacity doesn't use ASIO drivers so are you using something like ASIO4All?
Tyriche is absolutely correct that you cannot use more than on ASIO driver simultaneously within a recording application within most, if not all recording applications.
This technology exists for Macs with Core Audio in what they call Aggregate Device but not on PC.
Line6Miller
When I used Audacity I wasn't using ASIO, Sonar seemed to work with my multiple ASIO devices just fine, and I didn't use ASIO4all. Regardless this doesn't really have anything to do with my initial question/problem which is not that the two ASIO devices won't record, the two UX8s I have aren't being allowed to even connect to the system at the same time. If this isn't a problem that can be worked around then the rest of the semantics aren't too helpful.
Yes but that's expected. You can't connect two UX8's to one computer at the same time because they are both trying to use the same driver. Can't be done.
Line6Miller
Thank you, that was, unfortunately, the answer I was looking for. I know other devices like removable hard drives get around the issue somehow, I was just hoping the UX8 could do something similar. I need a UX16...
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