You might want to be recording a stereo mix of your two mics, although that is of course not necessary. If you're having trouble knowing where you are in the song, you can lay down a scratch rhythm & vocal to guide you or use markers on the DAW to help.
I misunderstood a previous post of yours and was trying to make the point that there is still latency introduced by onboard sound. My mistake!
However, it is true that a USB interface with ASIO drivers will give you lower latency than onboard sound. The driver performance is key - it's not just...
When you send signal to the input jack, it still gets processed by an audio processing chip (and latency is introduced), just as it would by an external interface, it's just that the chip is inside your computer. With an audio interface, when the signal hits the USB port, it's already been...
The delay of the signal from the keyboard isn't the latency I'm referring to. Latency, in this case is the delay from receiving the signal and the sound coming out of your speakers, which is determined by the size of your audio buffer (measured in samples). A good quality USB interface with ASIO...
If you record four drum tracks via a mixer, you are then stuck with the mix. Yes, you have two tracks, left and right channels, but you can't unpick those four tracks (although some software will claim to be able to do just that).
You do have latency when recording, you just don't see/hear it...
I was just offering a quick solution to your proposed problem, and being somewhat glib about it. But, yes, a mixer before the soundcard will allow you to record as many channels as the mixer supports, but, as discussed above, you are then tied to the mix you recorded.
You have to nail the mix on the way in and can't change it, though. If you had a 4 channel interface, you could apply compression and whatnot to separate tracks.
You can change an audio item's volume by clicking and dragging down from the top of the item. Individual item panning? Wouldn't that just get overridden by track panning anyway? I've never seen it, maybe it exists.
If you click and select an item, press F2 (in Windows, dunno about Mac) to see...
My G12H30 was my favourite over my Greenback, before I went and swapped them out for higher power speakers. That's why I was keen on the Creamback, it being the G12H30's bigger brother.
I didn't read all of the post, so didn't notice the spam. What's virtual audio cable? Is it a Russ Andrews product simulator that works by doing absolutely nothing to the sound but displaying cumulative cost on the screen?