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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 1, 2024 17:30:49 GMT -6
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Post by Oneiro on Aug 1, 2024 17:40:48 GMT -6
I have this setup. Very easy to get started - the Sonnet is basically plug and play. The Lynx manual has specific instructions about setup and drivers on Mac - with newer M-series systems I think you might have to do a safe mode reboot to change something from a security standpoint so that the Lynx application or drivers run properly. But again, documented well in the manual and website. The Lynx mixer software should recognize the AES cards. Just make sure you update your drivers on everything. www.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aes16e#Allwww.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aurora-n |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 1, 2024 18:43:54 GMT -6
I have this setup. Very easy to get started - the Sonnet is basically plug and play. The Lynx manual has specific instructions about setup and drivers on Mac - with newer M-series systems I think you might have to do a safe mode reboot to change something from a security standpoint so that the Lynx application or drivers run properly. But again, documented well in the manual and website. The Lynx mixer software should recognize the AES cards. Just make sure you update your drivers on everything. www.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aes16e#Allwww.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aurora-nthanx for this and the lynx lol Lynx is quite the company and that is the reason i went with them, the update driver for the AES16e is from june 19, 2024, they are on top of everything! In this digitally disposable world i so appreciate that |
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Post by bgrotto on Aug 1, 2024 19:12:05 GMT -6
I use a Sonnet chassis to connect my HDX cards to the studio computer. Works great. Zero hassle.
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Post by ericn on Aug 1, 2024 21:49:41 GMT -6
Sonnet is hard to beat these days, the only thing is remember outside of HD you might be adding a bit of latency, just the nature of the beast.
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Post by the other mark williams on Aug 2, 2024 0:21:05 GMT -6
I have this setup. Very easy to get started - the Sonnet is basically plug and play. The Lynx manual has specific instructions about setup and drivers on Mac - with newer M-series systems I think you might have to do a safe mode reboot to change something from a security standpoint so that the Lynx application or drivers run properly. But again, documented well in the manual and website. The Lynx mixer software should recognize the AES cards. Just make sure you update your drivers on everything. www.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aes16e#Allwww.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aurora-nI use a Sonnet chassis to connect my HDX cards to the studio computer. Works great. Zero hassle. I’m curious from each of you: how noisy is the Sonnet + Lynx cards in your environment? Are you able to have the Sonnet in the control room? Or do you guys have machine rooms for the computer and/or peripherals? A machine room isn’t in the cards for me anytime soon… |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 2, 2024 0:35:02 GMT -6
I have this setup. Very easy to get started - the Sonnet is basically plug and play. The Lynx manual has specific instructions about setup and drivers on Mac - with newer M-series systems I think you might have to do a safe mode reboot to change something from a security standpoint so that the Lynx application or drivers run properly. But again, documented well in the manual and website. The Lynx mixer software should recognize the AES cards. Just make sure you update your drivers on everything. www.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aes16e#Allwww.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aurora-nI use a Sonnet chassis to connect my HDX cards to the studio computer. Works great. Zero hassle. I’m curious from each of you: how noisy is the Sonnet + Lynx cards in your environment? Are you able to have the Sonnet in the control room? Or do you guys have machine rooms for the computer and/or peripherals? A machine room isn’t in the cards for me anytime soon… I did read the echo lll uses noctua fans, they are silent ime, I’ll have my sonnet next week and I’ll report back |
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Post by bgrotto on Aug 2, 2024 7:35:07 GMT -6
I have this setup. Very easy to get started - the Sonnet is basically plug and play. The Lynx manual has specific instructions about setup and drivers on Mac - with newer M-series systems I think you might have to do a safe mode reboot to change something from a security standpoint so that the Lynx application or drivers run properly. But again, documented well in the manual and website. The Lynx mixer software should recognize the AES cards. Just make sure you update your drivers on everything. www.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aes16e#Allwww.lynxstudio.com/downloads/aurora-nI use a Sonnet chassis to connect my HDX cards to the studio computer. Works great. Zero hassle. I’m curious from each of you: how noisy is the Sonnet + Lynx cards in your environment? Are you able to have the Sonnet in the control room? Or do you guys have machine rooms for the computer and/or peripherals? A machine room isn’t in the cards for me anytime soon… Mine is in a machine room these days. When I first bought it, it was for my home mix rig and lived under the desk I worked at. It was quiet enough to work with, but certainly not silent. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Aug 2, 2024 11:13:03 GMT -6
I’m curious from each of you: how noisy is the Sonnet + Lynx cards in your environment? Are you able to have the Sonnet in the control room? Or do you guys have machine rooms for the computer and/or peripherals? A machine room isn’t in the cards for me anytime soon… Mine is in a machine room these days. When I first bought it, it was for my home mix rig and lived under the desk I worked at. It was quiet enough to work with, but certainly not silent. Thanks, Benny. That's what I was afraid of - my space is tiny right now and I track right next to the desk. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 2, 2024 17:21:45 GMT -6
Mine is in a machine room these days. When I first bought it, it was for my home mix rig and lived under the desk I worked at. It was quiet enough to work with, but certainly not silent. Thanks, Benny. That's what I was afraid of - my space is tiny right now and I track right next to the desk. Thats if he's talking about the echo lll? i'd like to know? All the sonnet chassis models do not share the same fans, my experience with the noctua fans that are in the echo lll is they make no discernible noise, i will be very disappointed if its noisy |
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Post by longscale on Aug 3, 2024 15:24:23 GMT -6
Thanks, Benny. That's what I was afraid of - my space is tiny right now and I track right next to the desk. Thats if he's talking about the echo lll? i'd like to know? All the sonnet chassis models do not share the same fans, my experience with the noctua fans that are in the echo lll is they make no decreeable noise, i will be very disappointed if its noisy I have a Sonnet Echo III Desktop. I have a HDX card in it. It is silent and sits next to my desk. I can't stand fans and have banned them from my room as much as I can. I'm quite happy with this setup. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 6, 2024 17:39:36 GMT -6
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 6, 2024 18:26:17 GMT -6
I'm going to have to take it and grind the chassis tmrw, the unit doesn't show up as it doesn't connect as it should, kind of an indictment of sonnet considering the hefty price tag
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Post by longscale on Aug 6, 2024 19:01:37 GMT -6
Dang sorry. That does not look at all like my Echo III Desktop. Mine has TWO Noctua fan's in it. But it was north of $700. There was a jumper or switch that you had to flip to support the HDX card (for PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0). Mine worked flawlessly with my Mac Studio/HDX setup. I think I got this about a year ago - seems like from this link to be the same. www.sonnettech.com/product/echo-3-desktop/overview.html |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 6, 2024 19:11:39 GMT -6
Dang sorry. That does not look at all like my Echo III Desktop. Mine has TWO Noctua fan's in it. But it was north of $700. There was a jumper or switch that you had to flip to support the HDX card (for PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0). Mine worked flawlessly with my Mac Studio/HDX setup. I think I got this about a year ago - seems like from this link to be the same. www.sonnettech.com/product/echo-3-desktop/overview.htmlthanx! Mine is called the echo EXPRESS SE 3e, yours looks better than mine by a long shot, i thought thats what i was getting internally, well aint that a bitch, i only have a single fan and it looks like this on the outside, might have to return it..... www.sonnettech.com/product/echo-express-se3/overview.html |
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Post by longscale on Aug 6, 2024 19:38:52 GMT -6
Very sorry - $700 is NOT cheap - you would think the metal work would at least well.....work.
I've been happy with the echo III desktop so far. No issues at all - and the Noctua fans are awesome. I record in my room with this box in that room - and have never had a problem. I was not happy with the price at the time but I do not have a machine room - nor did I want to buy a giant silent box to put noisy things in. I was very very worried about this unit having two fans - but it really is nearly completely silent. Heck the transformer hum from some of my HW outboard is louder....I'm looking at you Mr Retro 176.
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 6, 2024 20:01:15 GMT -6
Very sorry - $700 is NOT cheap - you would think the metal work would at least well.....work. I've been happy with the echo III desktop so far. No issues at all - and the Noctua fans are awesome. I record in my room with this box in that room - and have never had a problem. I was not happy with the price at the time but I do not have a machine room - nor did I want to buy a giant silent box to put noisy things in. I was very very worried about this unit having two fans - but it really is nearly completely silent. Heck the transformer hum from some of my HW outboard is louder....I'm looking at you Mr Retro 176. thanx for your input, i actually got it to fire up, the TB cable doesn't need to set flush, it doesn't make much fan noise at all but thats only with one lynx aes 16 card in it that i need to update via a windows machine(for some reason), i'm sure under load of 3 of them the fans will ramp up, i'm thinking for the extra $400 i'm getting total silence, although i could probably get a long thunderbolt cable for a bazillion $😂 and get the thing away from my desk??? I got some decisions to make edit; also just found this on the express se 3, the fan is claimed to be "Noctua NF-R8 redux-1800(7) at 17.1dB(A)" that is the same 17.1 db claim as your echo 3 unit, so maybe this will be ok, i hope this learning on the fly helps someone else edit, edit; upon further investigation we both have the noctua redux, they are the quietest fans noctua makes, they are 17.1db at 1,800rpms and they go down to as low as 9db when not working hard, both of those specs are spectacular |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 10, 2024 20:40:54 GMT -6
Latest, so my lynx aes cards are older, i need to update the firmware on them and i can only do it on a windows machine, so i had to have may windows laptop that crashed a hard drive serviced at $200 because replacing the ssd was easy, but rebooting a dell laptop is apparently impossible for me, so $200 into a 4 year old computer thats worth $500😤
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Post by ericn on Aug 11, 2024 9:53:28 GMT -6
Latest, so my lynx aes cards are older, i need to update the firmware on them and i can only do it on a windows machine, so i had to have may windows laptop that crashed a hard drive serviced at $200 because replacing the ssd was easy, but rebooting a dell laptop is apparently impossible for me, so $200 into a 4 year old computer thats worth $500😤 I feel that pain, I have to keep a box of old PC laptops for various apps. |
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Post by ericn on Aug 13, 2024 17:00:04 GMT -6
One quick note to remember with fan noise, the fan isn’t always the problem. Your using a fan to move a bunch of air inside a structure, sometimes its the structure.
In the od days of 13 slot Magma Chassis upgradeing the fan would reduce it by 2-3 dB, but taking a screw driver tightening every screw and simply dampening the side and top and bottom panels with gaffers tape would get you another 5-6 dB. They were also quiter when full of cards.
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 13, 2024 19:06:26 GMT -6
One quick note to remember with fan noise, the fan isn’t always the problem. Your using a fan to move a bunch of air inside a structure, sometimes its the structure. In the od days of 13 slot Magma Chassis upgradeing the fan would reduce it by 2-3 dB, but taking a screw driver tightening every screw and simply dampening the side and top and bottom panels with gaffers tape would get you another 5-6 dB. They were also quiter when full of cards. Good points E. I got my $500 laptop back today after spending $200 to fix it...., did i mention it was $200 to fix it?....., It's worth $500 ya know....😵💫 Gonna try to update firmware on my AES16 cards with it now, wish me luck |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 14, 2024 9:48:15 GMT -6
So i got the sonnet hooked up to the PC and i found it in the device manager, tried to update the drivers for it and it reads "june 2006 most recent driver" lol
I can't seem to get the lynx aes16 card to show up or the firmware to update to finish it's install, i'm gonna have to call Paul and have him walk me through it, got to get this done inside the return window if it's a fail
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 14, 2024 19:08:58 GMT -6
turns out fixing my windows laptop was kinda a waste lol, I misunderstood what Paul at Lynx told me i need to do, i need to upgrade the firmware on the AES16e cards with a thunderbolt capable windows pc or an intel based mac that has thunderbolt capability, my windows laptop is usb A/B, now i gotta find one of those lol, he did tell me i could send him the cards and he'd do it for me, gotta love Lynx co, they get er done one way or the other
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Post by the other mark williams on Aug 14, 2024 21:03:44 GMT -6
turns out fixing my windows laptop was kinda a waste lol, I misunderstood what Paul at Lynx told me i need to do, i need to upgrade the firmware on the AES16e cards with a thunderbolt capable windows pc or an intel based mac that has thunderbolt capability, my windows laptop is usb A/B, now i gotta find one of those lol, he did tell me i could send him the cards and he'd do it for me, gotta love Lynx co, they get er done one way or the other This is turning into quite the ordeal, Tony… 😀 |
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 2, 2024 20:58:11 GMT -6
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