Connecting Behringer Xenyx mixer with Presonus Studio One2

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Hi everyone, yeah I'm new to this and I'm learning as I go (barely), just wondering if anyone can help, I'm trying to connect my behringer xenyx 1204usb to work with presonus studio one2, but it wont let me select the 'receive from' our 'send to' option when I try to hook it up, drivers all updated, xenyx selected as my default recording device, is anyone familiar with one or both of these? any thoughts on what I should do?

Thanks

DC
 
DHCollins said:
Hi everyone, yeah I'm new to this and I'm learning as I go (barely), just wondering if anyone can help, I'm trying to connect my behringer xenyx 1204usb to work with presonus studio one2, but it wont let me select the 'receive from' our 'send to' option when I try to hook it up, drivers all updated, xenyx selected as my default recording device, is anyone familiar with one or both of these? any thoughts on what I should do?

Thanks

DC
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I am not familiar with Studio One but note that originates from the Cubase stable? So like Cubase it is probably fussy about usb AIs with generic drivers and it is possible that you will need to use ASIO4ALL to make things work as they should. The situation is compounded by Win7 in that you need to delve deeply into the soundcard settings to get it to run stereo at 44.1kHz 16bits with a usb audio device such as the Berry.

The Behringer is not a bad mixer and even the usb conversion is fair to middling but it IS 16bits only and many of these usb mixers (not just Bellringers!) have noisy monitor returns. I would eschew the usb part of the mixer and fit a decent soundcard in the PC. The M-A 2496 is an old favourite and I can vouch for its solidity. If you have no spare PCI slot your choice of PCIe cards is very limited but I have read goodness of both the ESI and the Julia@.

Alternatively you could just buy a better usb AI and slam the mixer outs into the line inputs. The NI KA6 would serve you well since you would have two mixer tracks on the line ins and then a choice of two more mic/ line/ instrument inputs. Presently you do not have a suitable, high Z guitar input.

Oh! And you could try a less fussy DAW as a test such as Samplitude Silver....'Sfree!

Dave.
 
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