mixing boards

[donald nolan]

i need to know if there is any software that will give me a virtual
mixing board that will allow me to assign different instruments to different channels through a single line in port.

[Blue Bear Sound]

How would that even be possible?????????

[Track Rat]

Sorry but that's just not possible.

[Son of Mixerman]

Its possible if your only recording one instrument at a time. And then you can mix after all the tracks are done.
But if you want several instruments recorded into multiple channels of their own at once into a line input, that is impossible.

Peace,
SoMm

[donald nolan]

what i want to do is record bands in live performances. what kind of software do i need to do this. i want to use a lap top. also can i get software that will allow me to assign channels if i use multiple i/o ports. and if so how will i connect to the mixing board.

[Son of Mixerman]

Are you talking about recording from the FOH console directly so that you can remix afterwards to make a "live cd"?
To do that you will need as many a/d converters as channels you will want during the recording. You could buy a MOTU Multitrack recording setup and the associated software to run it, but Its highly unlikely that a laptop will be able to do this. It would take a pretty fast computer with a high degree of reliability. Were talking about 1.5 Mhz or faster motherboard, IDE 80 gig hardrive running around 7400 rpm or faster and 512mb of ram on the PC side. The MOTU 2408 will cost you nearly $900 per 8 channels of inputs, this is on the cheap side mind you. The MOTU I believe comes with software for driving it, there are other systems out there but it won't be as integrated. a Digi001 or 002 will do only 8 channels max at a time, but the 001 is $800 and the 002 is $2000. You could buy a HD24 hardisk recorder or Mackie equivalent and it would probably be the best way IMO, just run the buss outputs into it or the direct outs depending on the FOH back panel. How new are you to recording?


SoMm

[donald nolan]

thank you son of mixerman for your response to my question about mixing boards. i guess the best thing for me to do is to continue recording to a mini disk as long as i get the mix right. so far they have turned out real good i just wanted to have a little more control over the mix when i down loaded into my computer.

thank you donald nolan