Multi monitoring with sound cards

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Hi
Is it possible to use more than a couple of monitor with a firewire card and a 8 pre module?
I mean...for example...I have a fireface 800 and a presonus digimax lt. The fireface, as all the firewire audio interface, has 2 output for monitors and I connect here a couple.
But if I wanna use Yamaha hs50 and a pair of genelecs, how should I have to do?
Any idea?

Thank you very much
 
Get a monitor controller like a Mackie big knob. SM-Pro do a cheaper passive volume controller called the M-Patch2 (I have one). Presonus have one too - the Monitor Station.

You run a pair of outputs out of your fireface into the monitor controller which is hooked up to multiple sets of monitors. I have a set of Event ASP8's, Tannoy Reveals and some cheap Creative multimedias hooked up to mine.
 
I use a Samson C-Control.
I have two PCs connected to it (my recording PC with Saffire interface and my internet PC, standard onboard soundcard), then out to a pair of HS80s and the good ol' shitty Creative 2.1 PC Loudspeaker system... so I can use both PCs with both speaker systems in whatever way I want. Ego shooters never sounded better... :D