chulaivet, you common-sense approach is noted. This mixer will not be seeing any live gigs, so I won't have to worry about it getting banged around too much. I don't anticipate any needs for a mixer for live gigs, but should the need arise, I'll still have my "old" Mackie 1202VLZPro that should be able to handle most anything I would need it for.

Matt, yours would be a plan if I could afford one of the really big Focusrite Scarletts. I think. I'll have to think about that. I would need at least an 18i8, however, but it's out of my price range. I might could find a used one that would fit,though. At least there are clean used Scarletts available. So that's an alternative idea. I'll have to give this some thought vis-a-vis my rather involved DAW system. I currently own a 2i4 that I bought for use with my iPad, but it's too small for my needs with my DAW.

Pipeline, your multichannels across USB preference is noted, but even the Behringer UFX1202 is well beyond my reach at present. Well, technically it isn't, but I've budgeted a certain amount and I'm sticking to it. Besides, I don't have any desire nor need to have onboard recording capability. That's what my DAW is for.

Guitarhacker, I might need to handle more than two channel inputs at one time, but the way things are now, I can probably get by without it, although in the past I have often run more than one instrument at a time during recording.

It's probably worth noting that for almost all of my recording, I'm using Cakewalk by Bandlab, formerly Cakewalk Sonar Platinum for all my mixdown work and some of my composition work. When I do a final mixdown, I have everything running at once. If my tune has 10 tracks of instruments, then they're all playing at the same time, and that's the way I mix it down to a final stereo .wav file. Often tunes can have tracks that are a mix of MIDI and audio, sometimes all MIDI, rarely all audio. The way I have things set up right now, all my MIDI tracks have been created using soft synths, but I also have four outboard synths that I'm still looking to incorporate into the mix. Two are older and have the MIDI 5-pin plugs, two are newer and use USB to get MIDI into my DAW. But even these two older ones are being run through a MIDI to USB converter because this DAW no longer has any of the old 5-pin MIDI ports. And then there's still the matter of getting these four synth's audio into the mix, which is where the mixer becomes useful.

I'm gonna have to ponder this some more, I can tell right now. Time to do some more figurin'.

Last edited by cooltouch; 01/01/19 01:12 PM.
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