I would like to be able to feed an audio signal into the SPDIF-in on my Virus using my SaffirePro 14.
My current routing is thus;
SaffirePro14 out 1&2 : 1/4" jack sockets - fed to Tannoy L&R monitors
SaffirePro14 out 3&4 : 1/4" jack sockets nothing is physically connected to these on the rear of the Saffire, but can replicate 'out 1&2' and route to headphones using Saffire mix control
SaffirePro14 out 5&6 : SPDIF - connected to Virus SPDIF-in
SaffirePro14 out 7&8 : DAW loopback for recording any audio signal playing on Mac (from the internet / iTunes / Spotify etc)
SaffirePro14 in 1 : se x1 Mic
SaffirePro14 in 2 : free / not used - will eventually use for guitar input.
SaffirePro14 in 3&4 : feed from the output of my Yamaha mixer which has several other synths and devices connected to it (Korg MARMA, KAOSS pad, Boss DR drum machine etc.)
SaffirePro14 in 5&6 : SPDIF - connected to Virus SPDIF-out
Everything works flawlessly, and the quality of the sound out from the SaffirePro14 is excellent to my amateur ears. The Saffire Mix Control software offers extremely flexible routing; allowing for a huge range of configurations.
If I set the signal to be sent to the SaffirePro14 SPDIF-out to be either SaffirePro14 Input 1 (the Mic), or SaffirePro14 out 1&2 (Yamaha Mixer output) - will this allow me to use the Virus as an effects box either on voice at the microphone, or whatever I set the set out on the Yamaha mixer?
I thought I set this all up as above yesterday, but whatever changes I made on the Virus parameters (cutoff, reverb, delay etc) had no effect on what I sang into the Mic, or what I played through to the Virus from the mixer.
Phew... hope I explained things clearly enough there.
Hope someone can help.