andrewecko
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Right now, I've got an Allen and Heath Zed 12fx mixer. Thing's great for live sound, but I'm having trouble getting to work in Ableton Live.
The Allen and Heath is hooked up to my PC by USB, and I have my monitors plugged in the Allen and Heath by XLR.
In all of the Ableton tutorial videos, people are using a "soundbox" USB interface, the kind with usually only two inputs. When they hook theirs up to PC, they open up Preferences in Ableton, click the Audio tab, and they choose "ASIO" from the dropdown box. Then they can choose their driver's device. In the tutorials, they choose their "soundbox" interface.
I don't have that. Apparently my Allen and Heath board isn't ASIO-compliant? I don't know. There's no drivers online to be downloaded either. That left me no choice but to download ASIO4ALL. So in ASIO4ALL's settings, I have it configured with the USB audio source (It doesn't even say "Allen and Heath") for both In and Out. Since I'm directly monitoring from my mixer, I turned Monitoring off in Ableton, to avoid feedback, mirrored recording, etc.
Now I always use Ableton's metronome when I record. ALWAYS. But for some reason, the metronome is being recorded onto my track along with my guitar. To make matters worse, if I were to open up another track and try recording again, the first track records onto the second. The only thing I can think of is my routing. Basically,
guitar to mixer, mixer to USB, USB to PC, which is received by Ableton, then gets sent back to mixer through USB to be heard through monitors, and then sent back again?!? UUGGGGGHHHH.
To the "soundbox" users: Is it this hard for you, too?
The Allen and Heath is hooked up to my PC by USB, and I have my monitors plugged in the Allen and Heath by XLR.
In all of the Ableton tutorial videos, people are using a "soundbox" USB interface, the kind with usually only two inputs. When they hook theirs up to PC, they open up Preferences in Ableton, click the Audio tab, and they choose "ASIO" from the dropdown box. Then they can choose their driver's device. In the tutorials, they choose their "soundbox" interface.
I don't have that. Apparently my Allen and Heath board isn't ASIO-compliant? I don't know. There's no drivers online to be downloaded either. That left me no choice but to download ASIO4ALL. So in ASIO4ALL's settings, I have it configured with the USB audio source (It doesn't even say "Allen and Heath") for both In and Out. Since I'm directly monitoring from my mixer, I turned Monitoring off in Ableton, to avoid feedback, mirrored recording, etc.
Now I always use Ableton's metronome when I record. ALWAYS. But for some reason, the metronome is being recorded onto my track along with my guitar. To make matters worse, if I were to open up another track and try recording again, the first track records onto the second. The only thing I can think of is my routing. Basically,
guitar to mixer, mixer to USB, USB to PC, which is received by Ableton, then gets sent back to mixer through USB to be heard through monitors, and then sent back again?!? UUGGGGGHHHH.
To the "soundbox" users: Is it this hard for you, too?