wiring a 5.1 system into an interface?

[professorlamp]

For an assingment im on a hypothetical budget of £30,000
and I've been asked to make sure that the 'studio' can accommodate 5.1 mixes , the question is, how the hell do i wire it :S

interface wise I'm using 2 of the MOTU HD 192 MIT PCI-424 PCIEXPRESS ones.
and im guessing that 6 of the outputs of the motu goto 6 of the inputs of the speakers , is that it?
it can't be that simple, do i need to do any fiddly bits within my DAW or computer itself?

 

[JeffTD]

It is that simple .

I'd go with a better interface for a hypothetical studio, though!

 

[professorlamp]

I was gonna go with Apogee but it seems they're not very PC friendly and since im used to Cubase I'd be having that aswell as Pro tools, and cubase cant run on mac can it?

Also , I was going to daisy chain 3 of the motus so that totals about £4500 and gives me 24 xlr ins/outs, anyhigher and id have to underbudget for monitors,computer,plugins etc...

 

[JeffTD]

Cubase can totally run on a Mac, why would you assume otherwise??

Apogee... meh - Lynx Aurora stuff with an X-HD card.

 

[Norris-wf]

Cubase is Best on a Mac

 

[ahjteam]

since im used to Cubase I'd be having that aswell as Pro tools

Motu can't run ProTools.

 

[professorlamp]

right then , a highend interface that can run both pro tools and cubase?

 

[fabz]

right then , a highend interface that can run both pro tools and cubase?

You have to use a Digidesign Interface to run Pro Tools...

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=4&navid=169&itemid=26272

 

[joeymusicguy]

digidesign interfaces can run cubase

through the coreaudio driver included with digidesign interfaces

 

[JeffTD]

right then , a highend interface that can run both pro tools and cubase?

Lynx Aurora stuff with an X-HD card.

Yeah.

 

[-Noodles-]

Logic 9; Motu traveller; Blue Sky 5.1

cables required; 6 x balanced jack to XLR, from motu to Blue Sky bass manager.
6 x XLR from Bass manager to speakers.


Same with almost all other systems (Blue Sky, Genelec..)