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This is how most of the mixing that your friend with the ProTools rig is doing it, unless he sends every channel out for outboard processing (highly unlikely), he's mixing in the box - the computer that is.

He's not recording to a second computer or even a second program. He's putting a stereo mix down as another track right inside the same project.



Incorrect Scott, very likely. He runs Protools on his G5, playing back what he recorded live, and sending it out through 3 MOTUs into a 28 channel mixer, mixing it there and sending it to a second computer into something much like Abobe Audition and "printing" it there. He has an analog 28 channel Soundcrafter mixer. Nobody I know can afford a digital board that costs what "Studio B at EMI" can afford. I can barely keep my mortgage paid much less blow a month's pay on a mixing board to sit in an attic in Akron Ohio. I do not have a pro level studio.

Your use of the term "outboard processing" makes me wonder if we mean the same thing. Yes, there are effects (processors) bussed through the mixer, but this is essentially mixing levels, just levels, and recording one left an one right to burn to a CD.

And that's what I want to do. 16 channels down to 2 on my Mackie mixer. Old school mixing like I did 40 years ago, not because I am a Luddite, but because I already know how to do that pretty well and don't have months to learn digital technology at age 60.

The base questions remain the same. Is this a bug in RB? If anyone wants to continue to answer "no", then explain why this method, and equipment, works with Sonar and Protools. Saying RB has a bug is not putting RB down. It means that now 3 of us have found something in the coding that needs to be fixed. When people find a bug in any other software they are called beta testers. In other threads I have been called many things because I dared tread on Real Band.

What Sonar and Protools don't do is generate music. That is all I really care about, that RB can play music better than I can. If I have to, I will write in RB, export to WAV files, import those WAV files into Sonar, and be on my way, but believe me, I WILL make these MOTUs work with RB somehow. I'm a hacker. That's what hackers do.