16 tracks w/ 2 motu 8pres

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ok, so the 8pre comes with both a firewire daisy-chaining feature (2 firewire ports so that multiple interfaces can be connected serially, increasing simultaneous ins) and also ADAT Lightpipe capabilities (which I've never used and know nothing about).

i want to connect two of these and give myself 16 simultaneous inputs but i'm not sure whether to do this by firewire or ADAT. i heard recently (from the guy i bought the second 8pre from) that the difference between the two lies in the monitoring capabilities of the system (firewire=monitoring outs must be run from both interfaces, lightpipe=both interfaces act as one and only one needs to go to the monitors (which is both what i want and how i thought it would work with firewire for some reason)).

so my question, before i impulsively run out and buy a lightpipe cable, is do i have this right? and what do i do? (i'm guessing) it would be something like <lightpipe out motu 2> --> (via lightpipe) --> <lightpipe in motu 1> --> (via firewire) --> <computer>??

please try to keep your answer simple as you are just going to confuse me with too much high-falootin' technical mumbojumbo.
 
According to there site under Feature Summary

Two FireWire ports - daisy-chain up to four units on a single FireWire bus without a hub.
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I would try this first

Yes Similar questions, i just want more out's.

Would like to know how you make out pairing the two
 
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Simbo said:
According to there site under Feature Summary



I would try this first

Yes Similar questions, i just want more out's.

Would like to know how you make out pairing the two
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yep, tried the firewire connect. can only monitor out of one at a time.
so is lightpipe the fix for all my woes?
did i describe the connection chain accurately in my o/p?
thanks.
 
You try lightpipe yet ?

If so did it do what you where hoping for
 
I don't know but I would bet that the Firewire option just lets them share the I/O to the computer but doesn't connect one with the other, while the Lightpipe lets the host unit get signal from the second unit.
 
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