Originally Posted by Charlie Fogle
<< The Ui24R is off-topic as it's a 24-channel mixer, not a sound card.>>

It shouldn't be off-topic. The The Ui24R is a quite robust audio interface that's well suited for both this discussion and use with BIAB/RB or any DAW as a digital multi-track recorder.
Mackie, Yamaha, Korg, Zoom, Behringer and Tascam all offer Mixers with USB audio interfaces that offer good pre-amps and analog mixing, digital Fx's, aux outs, Groups, Busses, and recording direct to flash drive or SD cards and multiple routing options.
Ui24R | A quick guide to multi track recording
I guess that's perfectly reasonable.

I rather felt that a 24 channel mixer was too far away from the usual audio interface boxes, both in scale and price, and jom and I were straying somewhat. It is, though an audio interface and I do use it like that. It's also a very capable mixer with the features one expects from that. EQs, gates, compressors, busses, aux outputs, per-musician mixes and so on. Having no hardware control surface is a mixed blessing. It works superbly with a touchscreen/tablet/mobile-phone, not so well with a mouse and keyboard. Soft surfaces like this are not so good in sunlight, but I guess any digital mixer with display would suffer that. The whole mixer can sit on/near the sage as a stage box, which is great, though then one may well need to get headphone outputs to an operator. It'll work either an a multichannel ausio interface, or will save to a USB stick for later remixing, which is handy when the main task on the day is mixing a live performance.

The interface is web-based (Java I imagine) and works very well including on my usual Linux platform.

Edit: Caveat: I personally have only used the Ui24R as a live mixer, or attached to a DAW, never with BIAB.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 03/29/24 04:00 AM. Reason: Addendum
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AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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