If you tried #AggregateAudio when Apple first rolled it out and quickly gave up on it cos it was a bag of wank, *give it another go.*
It actually works now, doesn't introduce mad latency and, like every good protocol, just melts into the background. So it's now trivial to connect a bazillion inputs up via Thunderbolt or USB or whatever.
Eh, this is a problematic question for me as I'm currently moving away from DAWs for #MIDISequencing, I'm trialling an #MPCX or I might even go back to my #AtariST.
But, at the moment I'm using #StudioOne with #AggregateAudio stacking a #PresonusQuantum and #BehringerX32 for my outboard.
One day, I'll get back to the timing I had in the '90s... one day...
Jyoti Mishra