well basically it came to crunch time today and i started my assingment
(I've been asked to design a studio with a £30000 budget, not worrying about acoustic/room properties/furniture (desks stands) etc...)
properly and realised that I bough an AD-DA converter instead of an audio interface *facepalm*
anyway I've been looking around and honestly its taking forever, so im calling on you more experienced guys to chime in if you can
this is what im looking for
High end (2000-4000£)
must have at least 6 outputs to support 5.1 surround sound
atleast 4 XLR ins and Midi I-O
compatible with both protools and cubase and able to work on a PC
this interface is NOT for recording (apart from synths for composition)
I've gone through 2 separate ideas so far , the first was the MOTU HD192 interface until I realised it's not compatible with pro-tools, then i found the perfect one (or so it seemed) the lynx aurora 16, so i decided to have a look at the back of it to see all the connections and lo and behold there was none that were just average XLR's and line outs
so that went down the shitter and now im stuck at square one again
edit: it seems the best option if its possible is to buy something to make the MOTU compatible with pro tools, is there anything I could buy to do this ?
(I've been asked to design a studio with a £30000 budget, not worrying about acoustic/room properties/furniture (desks stands) etc...)
properly and realised that I bough an AD-DA converter instead of an audio interface *facepalm*
anyway I've been looking around and honestly its taking forever, so im calling on you more experienced guys to chime in if you can
this is what im looking for
High end (2000-4000£)
must have at least 6 outputs to support 5.1 surround sound
atleast 4 XLR ins and Midi I-O
compatible with both protools and cubase and able to work on a PC
this interface is NOT for recording (apart from synths for composition)
I've gone through 2 separate ideas so far , the first was the MOTU HD192 interface until I realised it's not compatible with pro-tools, then i found the perfect one (or so it seemed) the lynx aurora 16, so i decided to have a look at the back of it to see all the connections and lo and behold there was none that were just average XLR's and line outs

so that went down the shitter and now im stuck at square one again

edit: it seems the best option if its possible is to buy something to make the MOTU compatible with pro tools, is there anything I could buy to do this ?