Need help with proper connections between Saffire pro 14 and LAX6D

[Wilde]

Hi Guys,
New here, my first post and seeking help. I have recently bought a saffire pro 14 and it's driving me crazy. I have worked with other audio interfaces and never had this problem. It all seems to be connected with the routing. I am using 2 line outputs from the card to active speakers working as monitors - working ok. From mix output (L/R) from console to channels 1 and 2 on the card which are line inputs for vocals, intruments - working ok. Guitar on one of the console channels - working ok. The problem seems to be with the saffire mix control and the routing of sounds. What I fail to understand is why I cannot hear either through the speakers or the headphones everything that I want to hear.
Let me try to make it as clear as possible. I open a DAW, there I have, for example a drum audio file. In the routing preset on the saffire mix control I select DAW 1 and 2 and hear it perfectly on the speakers. Then I plug in a guitar to my mixing console and from the console to Line In 1 and 2 on the sound card. Now, here is the problem. I can see the drum readings and the guitar readings when I strum it in the respective channels but if I want to hear the guitar through my speakers I have to select as the routing present Anlg 1 and 2 and that means that I can no longer hear the drums coming from the DAW because obviously I had to change the routing to listen to the guitar. So if a person is wanting to record as instrument in whatever DAW you are working with but you can no longer hear back up tracks, how the heck are you gonna do this? Am I missing some sort of cable from the saffire back to the console? How do I get the sounds from different sources to sound together? Because another thing is if I use the phones connection on the saffire using the DAW route on the mix control to headphones I can hear the drums but no guitar and if I plug the phones on the console and select Anlg 1 and 2 as the route I hear the guitar but no drums. It's like as if there is some lack of communication between saffire and console. At the end of the day what I am trying to say is that I can hear things from different sources but can never hear them together and this means not having any backing sound whatsoever as a guideline when I want to record an instrument.
I never had this problem with previous soundcards and this is very frustrating cuz I don't know what to do to fix this problem. All I want is to record an instrument in whichever DAW I choose listening to the backing tracks that I want from whatever source.
Sincerely hope you can help me cuz it's highly frustrating spending the days waiting for something to happen.
Thanks in advance

 

[gumboot]

same problem

i am having the exact same problem, (except for the fact that i have a saffire 56 and use logic, but i don't think that changes the required settings).
i have been battling with it for a while now, and am getting closer to resolving it.

if you change the monitoring presets to daw, and also, inside your daw enable software monitoring, it all works as expected, you can hear previously recorded tracks and the microphone signal that you are about to record.....but, there is a terrible latency effect, caused by the software monitoring. no good.

turn software monitoring off, and you get exactly what you described. either one or the other, not both. i think it has something to do with how you set up your mix, and then output it. then when you select mix1 as your output to your monitors and headphones, you will hear what you need to hear.

i will be playing with this today, and if i get somewhere i will let you know, this has been an incredibly frustrating issue!!!

please let me know if you figure it out, i just want to put this behind me!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gumboot]

i think i have it,
in order to have zero latency, you need to use the preset for 'zero latency tracking'. then you need to set up your mix, try mix1. then set the first channel to analogue 1 from the drop down menu just under the mix 1 tab. then your microphone signal will be in your output channel on the far right (as long as it is plugged into the input 1 on your interface), and also coming out of your monitors and headphones. then assign 2 other channel strips to daw1 and daw2 etc.(you probably have to set up a bus if you have a lot of tracks to playback) so that your other tracks already recorded will also be included in the mix. don't forget to turn the volume up on them though. now you can hear both signals during recording. and that is it. fantastically simple, but very frustrating until you see it. i will be glad to help with any other settings that i may have left out that you also need help with. be warned though, i am also only just getting my head around all this!!!

hope this helps you.