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:: (one or both buttons down) routing audio from RCA/USB to MainMix and/or CtrlRoom, OR | :: (one or both buttons down) routing audio from RCA/USB to MainMix and/or CtrlRoom, OR | ||
:: (both buttons up) you're routing mainmix TO RCA/USB. | :: (both buttons up) you're routing mainmix TO RCA/USB. | ||
===Recording=== | ===Recording=== | ||
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tl;dr: you cannot both play and record at the same time. | |||
More practically: | |||
Because of the buttons, you want both buttons up when you want to record from the mixer, | Because of the buttons, you want both buttons up when you want to record from the mixer, | ||
and you won't get output from the mixer while you do. | and you won't get output from the mixer while you do. | ||
Basically, consider this mixer like a mic input (that happens to have more | Basically, consider this mixer like a mic input on an audio interface (that happens to have more knobs), and nothing more. | ||
It would be nice to use it as your usual sound card, | |||
as well as an mic audio interface. | |||
But you can't, at least not at the same time. | |||
It's not that mixers couldn't do that, it's that they often choose not to. | |||
If there is one main bus that everything including the sound from the PC goes to, | |||
then it would listen to itself. | |||
If the PC also plays what it listens to (like a DAW might), you would get feedback. | |||
But even if that never happens, there is still a weird design decision to be made. | |||
Because if not the main bus, then where ''does'' it go? | |||
Does it get mixed into the output after evertything else? That's weird | |||
Consider that the input coming from the PC's would need to be separate from the input coming from the. | |||
Even if it got its own volume knob (it doesn't, other mixers do do that), | |||
If you ''must'' monitor the input as you record it, get your recording app to play to a device that isn't this one. | |||
(which is not ideal on a DAW - you'ld proably want an [[ASIO wrapper]] to get it to do that at all) | (which is not ideal on a DAW - you'ld proably want an [[ASIO wrapper]] to get it to do that at all) | ||
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For context: | For context: | ||
Things that can accept audio at both ends (e.g. mic in and USB in) tend to avoid sending the same thing both ways. | Things that can accept audio at both ends (e.g. mic in and USB in) tend to avoid sending the same thing both ways. | ||
In part to keep things simpler, in part to avoid loud | |||
In part to keep things simpler (there are more choices you have to make, and understand), | |||
in part to avoid loud loopback mistakes. | |||
Revision as of 17:27, 28 December 2023
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Connectivity
On USB in/out and the buttons
- either you're
- (one or both buttons down) routing audio from RCA/USB to MainMix and/or CtrlRoom, OR
- (both buttons up) you're routing mainmix TO RCA/USB.