Thanks for the reply. With my current setup I am using a Line 6 UX2 as my audio interface and an Oxygen61 MIDI controller (actually USB). I'm using Acid Pro 7 as my DAW. I am looking for a way to "mix" using something tangible instead of the virtual mixer in Acid. Any ideas?
Here's the deal.
Since you already have the UX2, which i think is a decent interface, you can simply plug the main output from the XENYX mixer into the Line input of the UX2.
What this will do.
It'll basically allow you to plug in your mics, keyboards, guitars, DI Boxes, and whatever else you'd like into your mixer, and the
mixed output will go into Acid Pro 7 through the UX2. That means, if you record say a guitar and vocals simultaneously from mixer --> UX2 --> Acid Pro, and realise later that your guitar is too loud, you can't lower the guitar later in Acid. The only way out is to re-record by re-balancing your tracks accurately on the mixer.
What this will NOT do.
It will not let you use the mixer instead of the virtual mixer on Acid. This mixer is only your input source doing into your Line6 UX2. It has no control over what you do in Acid and vice versa. So you will still have to use the virtual mixer to change volumes of different tracks after recording.
As someone stated, the Behringer BCF2000 will help give you physical control of the virtual mixer you see on Acid. It has motorized faders that sync with the faders on your virtual mixer. Of course, it can also be used to control a zillion other parameters such as effects, pan, envelops, mute, solo, etc. Unfortunately, although it looks and feels like a mixer, it's merely a controller; i.e. it can't be used as an analog mixer, since it doesn't have any onboard, inputs, preamps, etc.
