Allen Heath ZED 436. A workflow question.

[juanjavier]

Hi!! I am new to this forums. Greetings to everyone.

I am trying to lean the basics to hard-disk record via DAW (perhaps SONAR X1 or Cubase 5) with the Allen Heath 436 board. But there are things that I am not sure to get, as of now, and maybe someone could help....

I know the ZED range has no simultaneos multi track real time recording, since its converter is just 2 ch stereo.

But:

Is it possible to playback a full 32 audio tracks sequence in any DAW software and send the tracks to the board via the USB just to mix them "actually" in the desk (real faders, real pan, real AUXes, real effects...) and then send the final "mixed, eq'ed and effected" LR signal back to the computer?

Which is the workflow? How it could be done? Pdf user manual for the 4 buses ZED's does not cover the subject at all, or not very clearly...
How could each single audio track could be routed from the computer to a specific board channel by means of the USB? Is that possible?

Thanks in advance...

 

[juanjavier]

Any idea on this?

BUMP.

 

[JMac52]

I don't think there's a way to do what your asking, if I understand correctly. Not sure why you would want to either - anything you could do on the board you could in a DAW and more. Unless you're just trying to make use of that expensive mixer somehow, someway.

J

 

[cecerre]

Not via USB, no, not without an audio interface and even then it would not be a simple USB to USB connection...so...

Is it possible to playback a full 32 audio tracks sequence in any DAW software and send the tracks to the board via the USB just to mix them "actually" in the desk (real faders, real pan, real AUXes, real effects...) and then send the final "mixed, eq'ed and effected" LR signal back to the computer? Not the way you want it to and certainly not cost effectively.

Which is the workflow? None exists as you have asked for it to exist.
How it could be done? See above.
Pdf user manual for the 4 buses ZED's does not cover the subject at all, or not very clearly...Prolly cause you got the wrong tool
How could each single audio track could be routed from the computer to a specific board channel by means of the USB?Not by USB, still no.
Is that possible?See above.
*If* the ZED supports ADAT, you could jump through a lot of hoops and spend a ton of money on ADAT interface(s) (I/f) cards and get this to work. The recommendation is that you stay in the digital realm in the DAW and, if you are like me and enjoy the fadrers, knobs, etc, get a control surface and start reading up on how to map it out to your DAW. Now, *some* newer boards do come with USB connection (Its really a midi protocol) that allows them to 'control' DAW software via USB (midi control mapping) but, that's not what you are asking for and out of scope of this question. Best of luck.