thanks Chris,
So to surmise, I can use the second 816 as a stand alone A-D and send the channels into the first giving me 16 analogue ins and have direct monitoring but I can’t change the sample rate unless I reconnect with FW and do it via the MR editor?
That makes them unusable in stand alone mode then as I can’t even connect them to anything else .Even if I used one as the master into the RME, I’d still have the same issue with the second one (the slave).
Hmmmmmmm I just want to have all my nice mic pre’s connected up in my new studio so need 16 analogue ins with direct monitoring.
mc