After reading that c8 now supports routing to multiple monitors I confidently resolved to set up same, got hopeless and irretrievably confused.
What I want to do is rout monitoring signal to either stereo monitors+sub or 5.1 on my home theatre speakers.
Using a Saffire PRo40 with Octopre for extra 8 i/o.
As far as I know it should be possible to rout a mix to my 5.1 speakers using SPDIF via an optical cable.
Where do I start? The mixer now has ‘Direct Routing’ and ‘Routing’. ??
I have setup previously a succesful 5.1 mix to 5 audio outputs connected to the Saffire. So I do know how to do that.
I attempted it seems, a myriad of options, creating two destinations in ‘Direct Routing’, setting up a 5.1 monitor in Control Room, setting up a 5.1 tab in the Saffire app. Hopeless.
So it seems I am stuck in how to assign multiple monitors and how to assign the 5.1 mix to a SPDIF output. [which may be one issue?]
Any genius advice appreciated.
Not helped by the fact I have never attempted to use the Saffire with SPDIF before.