Reply To: NEED HELP SETTING UP H9000/X8GEN2/LOGIC

[joecozzi]

Hello Jshermandds,

There are several ways to approach this…by using analog I/O or ADAT I/O, but because you’re on an Apple system, I’m going to recommend how I use the H9000 – connecting the H9000 to your computer via USB and creating an aggregate device. This gives you 16 channels of I/O on the H9000 (H9K).

1. Connect your x8 and H9000 to your computer via USB. The H9000 will appear in the Audio/MIDI setup as a 16 I/O device.
2. Open up the Audio/MIDI setup and create an aggregate device by clicking on the + sign on the bottom left of the Audio Devices screen. When creating this aggregate device, I always choose the H9000 first because the Apollo has a mismatched set of I/O. It just makes things easier to route to the H9000 when all channels are even. (At least in Pro Tools it does, which is what I generally use). Name it whatever you want.
3. Open up a session and put the Emote plug-in on any track, I usually put it on the Master bus since it’s just a controller. On the H9000 (using Emote), set up an FX Chain with some vocal effects. Make sure to assign the H9K’s hardware inputs to the FX Chain inputs: Set USB 1-2 to the FX Chain input 1-2. Similarly, set the FX Chain outputs 1-2 to the hardware USB 1-2 outputs.
4. Make sure there is no USB Audio mismatch error on the H9000, if there is, it may indicate the H9K is not running on the same sample rate as your session. If you encounter this problem, make sure the H9000 and x8 preferences are set to the correct sample rate. Also, you may need to toggle the H9000 sample rate at the top of the Audio Device setup of your aggregate device from a different rate to the correct rate. This will cause the H9K to resync to your session and the warning will go away.
5. In your session, create an AUX track. Send signal to and from the H9K. I know in Pro Tools you can use an Insert to automatically send signal back and forth. I’m positive Logic has a similar routing tool or external device plug-in. Set the output of that Aux track to your Master bus so you can hear the results.
6. From your vocal track, Send signal to that Aux track when you want to process your vocals with the H9000. Keep in mind that most of the time, you’ll want to run the H9000 effects in Kill Dry, so you don’t double up on the dry signal, but experiment for fun.
7. I create four Aux tracks, one for each H9K FX Chain, so you can always have your favorite effects ready to go. FX Chain 2 would use USB 3-4, FX Chain 3 would use USB 5-6, FX Chain 4 would use SUB 7-8. You could even open up more Aux channels if you use effects with 4 or more outputs. This assumes all effects run in stereo. You could, for example, run 16 mono I/O with individual algorithms running in parallel, but I don’t want to confuse you.

Start there and let me know if you have any questions.