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Hello, My name is Anthony and I work out in the Oilfield in North Dakota. I did a lot of recording when I was younger 15-18 and got out of it unfortunately. I am now 25 and have gotten set back up with a small home studio, a few Items I have are:

PC Windows 8 - PC Audio Labs
Maschine Studio 2.0
PreSonus Studio Live 16.0.2
and an Akai 88 Midi Controller.
Reason 8.0

I want to do a lot of sampling and mixing etc, its mainly a hobby. One of the things I have been struggling with is my computer runs through the Presonus via Firewire and outputs to my 2 monitors. What is the process or software I need to look at, to be able to sample directly from my Computer back into Reason or Maschine. I am looking to keep it as clutter free as possible with wiers etc. I figured there would be an easy solution to do this but it has proven to be a pain in the ass. Any information would be wonderful. I plan on sticking around as I am pretty rusty and will have some additional questions in the very near future. TIA
 
Hi Anthony and welcome.
If I understand you correctly you want to record the sounds generated inside the computer? This is the same process that would allow you to for instance record the sound track of a Youtube video.

If you have a desktop machine the easiest way is a PCI soundcard such as my M-Audio 2496* where you can select "MON MIX" in the DAW and record any sounds going through the PC. If you have a laptop you can't fit such a card but there should still be a "stereo mix" function in the On Board Sound card but for several reasons you don't want to use that, indeed it is best disabled.

There might be addition software routing in the Presonus AI? I have an ESI external sound card (well, SORTA! The 1010e ) and I can loop that back with a spooky patchbay that I have never really understood!

At the death you will just have to make a hardwired link from AI input to output but beware of instability.

*If you can find one the Trust Optical Expert is not at all bad for £20 or so.

Dave.
 
There's probably a way of doing it using Rearoute (which is the way I internally get output from Logic into Reaper).

However, the easiest way is probably to patch Presonus outputs into alternate inputs. For example, patch outputs 1 and 2 into inputs 3 and 4, and record inputs 3 & 4. Alternatively you can redirect your internal sounds or sounds from another application to outputs 3 & 4, then patch these into Presonus 1 & 2.
 
Unfortunately my computer does not run off a channel, so there would be no way to patch out/in. Its a weird deal running off the fire wire the only control I have is the monitor/headphone adjustments an no actual channel. I suppose I could plug in from computer sound card to the RCA Stereo channel and record from there. I was hoping there would be a simple interface just to trick the thing. Ill take a look at the options Reroute gives me or something similar. Thanks for the responses.
 
anthonyjoseph89 said:
Unfortunately my computer does not run off a channel, so there would be no way to patch out/in. Its a weird deal running off the fire wire the only control I have is the monitor/headphone adjustments an no actual channel. I suppose I could plug in from computer sound card to the RCA Stereo channel and record from there. I was hoping there would be a simple interface just to trick the thing. Ill take a look at the options Reroute gives me or something similar. Thanks for the responses.
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All your patching would be done on the interface itself; firewire is just getting everything back and forth from the PC. What Zzed is talking about is either manually cabling between 1->3 and 2->4 on the interface or, if there is any type of mix control software that handles the interface routing, you can try to do it that way as well. In your DAW, once you figure out the cabling/internal routing, you would set the sounds to be played out through channels 1&2 and set up a track to record what comes in on 3&4.
 
I got it. Basically what I did was learned a little more about the 16.0.2 and realized I didn't have the slightest clue. So I watched about 2 hours of you tube videos and picked up bits and pieces. I essentially just ran a cable from my computer output into the interface. which output back into Reason and I was able to record. Simple and effective, no quality issues at all.
 
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