Trouble Getting Set-Up

[nhorr]

I've accumulated a pretty fair amount of items over the years to use for recording/making my own music. The only problem is, I've been struggling for the better part of the last year to get it all linked together and functional. I don't even know if all of it can be linked together. If it can, awesome, if not, oh well. So, I'm hoping someone here can help before I go mad with frustration.

I have:
Yamaha MW-12 mixer (usb)
Novation ReMote 25 (usb)
Peavey PV900 Pre-Amp
HP Pavilion Laptop
and I use Reaper as my program.

I've had the ReMote 25 since 2008 and have failed miserably since then to get it to work with anything. I gave up on setting everything up for a few years but now I'm getting back into it and I would like to be able to use my investments.

The mixer I cannot seem to get linked up with the audio on my laptop or in Reaper. It doesn't adjust any levels at all.
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone locally that does this sort of thing otherwise I probably would have had it done a year ago.

Any help would be awesome, thank you in advance, and I apologize for my incompetence with all of this.

 

[Steenamaroo]

Hey,
I may be stating the obvious, but here's some info.

The yamaha mixer is an analog mixer with USB connectivity.
That is, it takes analog audio signals in, and sends them as digital data to your computer.
What it doesn't do is control your software in any way.

The faders and gain knobs will control the level of the audio that is going through the mixer from mic/line inputs, but it won't control playback levels or anything like that.

The ReMote 25 appears to be a midi keyboard/controller.
It will send midi data (that represents what you play) to the computer.
In order to hear any audio back, you'd need to patch that midi data to a software synthesiser of some kind.
Midi data is pretty much sheet music for a computer; It's no good without an instrument.

It can also be used as a basic control surface for DAW values.
Most Daws will allow you to add a midi control surface (by name+model). Usually with generic control devices, you'd assign the sliders and knobs to whatever values you like.

It's the sort of thing that's very useful if you need to automate pan/volume, or control various functions of a synth in real time.

The peavey isn't a preamp; It's a power amp.
You'd connect the main outputs from the mixer to the power amp, and the outputs of the power amp to some speakers.

That might seem picky but a preamp takes mic level signals and amplifies them to line level. If you used that Peavey as if it were a preamp, you'd almost certainly damage your mixer, or whatever you're plugging the peavey into.

Hope that's useful.