Scarlett 18i20 Expansion To 16 Channels With OctoPre 

This is an Excellent Tutorial. I saw this video and laughed because I needed this video tutorial 5 months ago!! I was pulling my hair out trying to connect these two devices together. First, I thought since the icon of a green lock appeared on the 18i20 when syncing, then the lock on the OctoPre should turn green as well. Boy was I wrong, only a green dot on the OctoPre appears, the lock icon will not appear green for the OctoPre. Second, when I finally got them synced together, I kept speaking into my mic, which was connected to the OctoPre in channel 5 and the incoming signal was not appearing in my DAW. This was because I didn't know about Channels 9-12 being used for SPDIF and Loop back only. Once I read the manual fully, I got it all worked out. Here's a Tip folks, “Read The 18i20 Manual First” for the ADAT Information and setup in the DAW.👍👍UPDATE*** the Scarlett WILL NOT allow hardware processers to be used because there is no DA for the inputs. CAUTION, The Scarlett OctoPre will ONLY work with MICRPHONES. For hardware expansion, you will need the Scarlett OctoPre Dynamic

Best explanation yet. You get a big thumbs up.

Dude!!! Excellent tutorial - I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. 10/10

Extremely well explained..(Taking Notes to add to my book.)!

I'm so glad that I found your video! I just got an Octopre within the last week and this was the PERFECT tutorial. I appreciate you explaining the "why" behind the "what" that you were doing. It helps to get my head fully wrapped around the whole thing! Keep it up! Brilliant content, especially for those just learning this!

Hey man great tutorial…. Super clear to understand… much appreciate this!! 😊

This is a super helpful video. Off to get the octopre to expand my 18i20. Thanks so much!

Thank you for giving the best explanation..

Excellent explanation, thank you.

Great Tutorial!👏

Great and helpful video! I'll try to install my Focusrite 18i20 and my OctoPre tomorrow for future drum recording using multichannel. Until now I recorded just Stereo from my Behringer X2442 USB Mixer. Thanks to your video I know everything what I've to do tomorrow. Keep up your great work🤘🤘🤘Merry Christmas🎄

Cleanest explanation I’ve watched and the clocking breakout great. 👍 good stuff. Would love to see your explanation of routing in focusrite control.

Thank you so much!! Very helpful👍

Excelent tutorial thank you very helpfully.

Very helpful! Thank you

Great job

well done mate! thx

amazing man . Thanks I needed this :)

thank you

Good job man! I feel you, I’ve also recently started youtubeing. Youre doing great, thanks for the demo! Cheers

Your explanation was very clear and helpful in improving my understanding of ADAT connections. I did notice something that I'm uncertain about, though. When setting up my Scarlett 18i20 and Clarett Octo Pre in Pro Tools, instead of displaying SPDIF or ADAT 13 in the inputs, it simply shows as digital 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Upon exploring the Focusrite Control panel, I found that selecting DUAL ADAT in the Digital I/O mode allows me to configure inputs 11 and 12 (or digital 1, 2 in my case) as well. While this seems straightforward for me, I'm unsure if it's correct or if it might cause any issues. For my setup, connecting input 1 on the Octo Pre results in Pro Tools showing it as DIGITAL 1. However, switching the Digital I/O mode to SPDIF optical forces me to use input 13 (or DIGITAL 3). I conducted a mic check using both setups, and the recordings sounded identical. Could you please clarify if there's any significant difference between the two configurations? Thank you!

ace tutorial!

This works on 1 cable if I use 44.1 or 48, but I need to use both cables to use 96k, right? It's the same setup, same routing etc?

So which one is suppose to be plug in to the computer? The 18i20 or the Octopre?

Great video and explanation. How would you do it the other way round? 18i20 - octopre? Still haven't downloaded a DAW..what are you using? Also,if i go out of OctPre into my 18i20 via ADAT as described in your vid,theres 2 ADAT ports on octPre..which one do you go out of? Can i just use a world clock BNC cable instead? Sorry for all the questions

Is there any reason you used the clock from the octopre instead of the clock from the 18i20? Is the octopre clock more reliable..does this configuration take some of the burden off the 18i20?

Great tutorial. Is there any advantage to using an Octopre as opposed to using two 18i20's?

Thanks man, but How about all outputs? If you want to use both 18i20 and Octorpre out for sending audio to outboards? And the samplerate, when should you use higher than 44.1?

New sub!!! I’m enquiring buying these units for my hardware keyboards without having to buy a patch bay!!! And so my wife can stop saying that I’m not using all my boards!!! Side note!!!😂😂😂 but my question I saw few clips on how to hook other interfaces with this device!!! I have the Appolo Twin and LPX & AL as my DAW of choice!!! Is the connection the same set up applies?🤔

What about if you turn off the octopre as a slave device but with adat set as source clock. Can you still use the 18i20 and record part time with the octopre, i dont need all 16 all the time and dont want to burn the electric bill.😂 i’m actually trying to the same but with two 18i20s

Not bad, you did not discuss how to setup for 7.1 ( the trick is mono on the FR control app I discovered

This was very helpful🙌 Quick question. Do you monitor through 18i20? or Octopre? Thank you 🙏

Is there an advantage to using 2 ADAT cables?

So if im using the octopre in Ableton will i need to worry about the inputs being preassigned or will Ableton just recognize them as normal inputs? If not do you think you would know how to reassign them through Ableton?

Where can I find that cable. Great tutorial by the way.

I need help hooking a 18i20 t0 an 18i20 to make 16 tracks

Soooo.... I bought octopre, and it seems that it add only 8 inputs, but *not* 8 outputs from DAW :(