Need help figuring out a way to hook up my mixer to my PC

[scaremongerR]

I have a Korg D1600 digital studio, the model without the USB port... I've been doing everything DIY style, which is no doubt incorrect, by using fruityloops to compose a beat, then taking the beat to cd, using the cd L and R on tracks 3-4 to get the beat on the mixer, and then doing the rest of the tracks with the mixer. This seems to work fine, but when i try to take single tracks (by mixing them down individually, then burning to a cd) and use them on my PC in sound forge then putting everything into fruityloops and syncing the original beat with these tracks... something gets off tempo, and none of only a few of the tracks stay with the rythym... and the rest just follow their own tempo. In closing, i need suggestions on a solution. anything helps... thanks.

 

[scaremongerR]

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nobody has any suggestions?

 

[PANTYBOY]

use the fl mixer

thats just not going to work at all no matter what u do
i use fl studio and wanted a hands on mixer too
but theres no way to route the tracks out of fl into an external mixer and back into your cpu and still have control of the individual tracks and mix
the mixer is the problem
use the softwares mixer or get a control surface mixing board
the mixer you have can only be used to mix the final instrumental by itself
but that can be did in the software as well

long story short
what you're doing,.....
it's not gonna work

btw you lose sound quality each time you import and then export tracks
back and forth like that too


get a control surface or use the softwares mixer
(even with a control surface it will only be like a midi board that uses the softwares mixer too, and they are pretty $$$ costly)
only use your board for the final mix if you still feel as tho u have to use it

 

[scaremongerR]

thanks.

i'm not sure i understand completely... what i have going on is a solo project, since i have no drum kit currently, i compose a beat with fl, then use the beat on the mixer, record vocals plus guitar and anything else there... my goal is to mix each of those together, and since there's quite a limit on the mixer as far as effects and mastering options, i was trying to use sound forge, then compile everything together... is it just not possible? (and sorry if you explained the solution for this specific problem, i guess i just dont understand.)

 

[Cult_Status02]

What I would do, without the USB, I would plug your audio out on your comp into a TRS on your mixer (you'll need an 1/8th to 1/4th converter, probably). Just press record on the mixer and then play the fruity loops track (convert it to a .wav first, as fruity loops sometimes clicks if you play it through that). Then, when you want to put all the tracks on your comp I would either plug it into the outs of the mixer and then into the line in on the comp and press record, or if the cd quality is good enough, I would burn that and then rip it to the comp.

Whatever you decide to do, don't forget you can always use the ins and outs on the comp and mixer, just use whatever giving you the best quality (some times ripping a cd to comp will make clicks). Good luck.

Oh yeah, and if you're wanting to finish the project on the comp, you may want to buy just a regular mixer, or something like a firepod or Lexicon Omega, then you'll record directly to your comp and do everything on there, commonly called a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)...(I'm just trying to sound smart for the firs time.)

Hope all this helps, that's all I could think of.

 

[scaremongerR]

greatly appreciated.

thanks, that was exactly what i needed to hear.

 

[lapetrarca]

Try this......

Use the "Tape Out" of the Korg (if equipped) to the "Line In" on the PC sound card.