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| quote: | Originally posted by Dogeh
When recording the individual parts do i still use the main mix out and just mute the rest of the parts/solo the part im recording?
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There are two ways to go about this: If you have it set up the way I described, with just the main mix going out into your audio interface, then you will need to solo each part when you are recording it.
The alternative is that if you have a multi input audio interface, you can send each bus (or even each channel) to a seperate input on the audio interface. This will entirely depend on the capabilities of your hardware mixer, but in that case, if you had 8 stereo channels going out from your mixer into your audio interface, you could record 8 channels at once.
It looks as if the mixer you have has 24 submaster/tape outputs, so you could send each one of these to a multi input audio interface (the MOTU 24 I/O would actually work out perfectly for this type of application) and record 24 mono or 12 stereo channels at one time.
| quote: | Originally posted by Dogeh
once all the parts are recorded, do i then arrange again to match the midi arrangement? |
No, you really wouldnt have to do anything, If you set your record space to record say 48 bars, for example, then all the audio would already be lined up and you wouldnt have to arrange anything.
| quote: | Originally posted by Dogeh
Or is it easier to get an audio interface and record all the parts at the same time (if thats possible), Then send it all back to the mixer to do the mixdown? |
In the situation described above, the outputs for the audio interface would then be re-routed into the inputs on the mixer. You'll probably need a patchbay if you do not have enough channels on the mixer. Be careful about a feedback loop here, although any decent audio interface should have monitoring controls to prevent this.
The other way is to go ahead and mix it live BEFORE it is bounced to audio, that way the recording to audio is the final step before the stereo mixdown. Arrange, Mix it how you like it, record all parts to audio, bounce to single stereo file. Done. If I was in your situation using a hardware mixer, then this is the way I would do it.
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