Mixer to computer

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My band often records songs in one take, i.e. everything mic'd with a single run-through. I'd like to be able to record right into Logic but have each instrument on a different track for mixing later, instead of one single track that I cant do anything with.

Is there an easy way to do this? I know there's the soundcard option, but I wasn't sure if there were any others. Does a mixer with a USB output do what I want it to?

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The key answer to your question is that for every individual track that you want to have in your DAW/Computer, you will need a separate A/D input on your sound card coming from the Direct Outs of your analog mixer, or just connect the sources right to the soundcard inputs if they take Mic and Line inputs...though you won't have as much monitoring flexibility as you will going through the mixer.
Having 24 channels on the analog mixer but only 4 A/D channels on your sound card will not work.

So...figure out how many mics/individual channels you need to have.

With a Firewire/USB mixer...the A/D conversions are done by the mixer's "sound cards"...BUT some may have specific/limited number of channels that they can simultaneously send to the computer, so again, you have to figure out how many you need and then check that with whatever Firewire/USB mixer you have in mind to use.
 
At most I think I'll need 4 tracks at once.

Can a USB/Firewire mixer actually separate tracks on a program like Logic? Or does it have its own software?
 
BBlack said:
At most I think I'll need 4 tracks at once.

Can a USB/Firewire mixer actually separate tracks on a program like Logic? Or does it have its own software?
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Yes.

I have an Alesis Multimix 8 USB that will output to four tracks via a single USB cable. It came with a limited version of Cubase but I used it with Acid, so I suspect that it would work with other apps as well.
 
Would you guys recommend recording with a minidisc multitrack (Yamaha MD4) or recording into Logic with a Behringer Xenyx mixer?
 
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so you use an alesis usb 8 so do I and you can record 4 tracks a once? through the usb ?
I have been using "cool edit" as my program but I also have "audacity" and the "cubase" that came witht the mixer I have been experimenting with track recording but 1 track at a time as in lay down the drum track \save play drum track through head phones and play guitar to drum track \save etc not the most time efficiante how do you record 4 different tracks at once?

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After loading the software from the included CD or downloaded from Alesis, plug it in via USB and the mixer is recognized as another device. I think it should appear in Windows device manager as another soundcard and your recording app should see four new recording inputs.

When assigning an input for a track it should see two stereo or four mono inputs I believe. I only tried it with USB briefly just to see if it worked as stated. I mostly use it as a standard mixer.

I installed the driver, plugged it in, fired up Acid and it saw all the inputs. It was quite painless.
 
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