Hi - I'm looking to upgrade my "interface" from my loyal and trusty Delta 66 sound card (housed in an Omni I/O break-out box), for the purpose of better converters, lower latency, etc. (for now looking at possibly the RME Fireface UCX, "dreaming is free" ) . One nice thing about the Omni I/O breakout box is that I can mix several hardware inputs together and route them to a single hardware output if needed. Importantly (I think?), I noticed this can be done even without Cubase booted up.

I was hoping I could save some money on the new interface by combining the Delta 66 I/Os with the new interface's. I might, for example, have "mission-critical" tracks like vocals and acoustic guitars go through the new interface for higher quality sound, and if I run out of hardware inputs there have other things like distorted guitars go through the Delta 66. I'd be happy with that trade off of $$ and sound quality.

Does anyone see a connection problem with the following?

1) Cubase pointed to the new interface for signals coming in.
2) Use the new, "better" interface for all that I can, and certainly for the more mission-critical tracks like vocals, acoustic guitars, etc.
3) If I need more hardware inputs than the new interface offers, plug into the Omni I/O, sub-mix some tracks down, and send them out a single hardware output from the Omni I/O to a single hardware input on the new interface. Cubase would not care that it came from another "sound card" ... it would see it as just another input from the new interface (??).

Thanks for any advice on this!

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Alexis -Cubase 6.5.0/SX3.1.1.944, XP SP2, 4GB RAM (1GB not accessible, but used just to balance the computer so it doesn't tip over); Delta 66 in Omni i/O Studio; Motif8; UAD-1

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