Originally Posted by Jim Fogle
ZeroZero,

When you use your laptop at the rehearsal studio, are you using Band-in-a-Box to record, playback or both? Is a mixer available at the rehearsal studio?

If you run the laptop's audio output of Band-in-a-Box into a mixer and have the other instrumentation or vocals running through the same mixer then you should be able to have one of the mixer audio outputs go into your laptop as a stereo mix. Then you can use RealBand, Audacity or any other recording program to record the incoming stereo mix.

Many mixers have a USB connection to the computer that doesn't use the laptop computer's built-in audio. Instead the computer considers the USB connection to be an audio interface with both audio in and out.

Thank you all for your replies.
For clarity, I just want to playback amplified biab sounds from the laptop, at this stage, but I just wanted to set it up for future recording too. I am asking if it is possible to use Biab and get sounds out of the laptop into a PA. Mini Jack to either 2 XLRs or Jacks, for stereo. There are two hurdles, first Biab freezes for me on my win 11 Zenbook. It’s core i9 and has 32 go of Ram so it’s not the laptop. Second is the issue of the cable. The mini jack outputs unbalanced power (I have now learnt) and either the laptop has to be near the PA and go into an unbalanced input or , I think there has to be some kind of stereo DI box.
There is a third option I am now thinking about, tonight, this is to send the signal out of the laptop into my keyboard, a NordStage 4, and then out from there to the PA through the outputs of the Nord. This is only possible if Biab can be made to run Asio. The Nord has a few options.
I want the laptop in front of me. I just loaded Cubase on it too and will be using a Rhodes VST and maybe other sounds - independently from BIAB.

I have found out that unbalanced cables should be short. I am. Ot conceded about recording into BIAB

As I lie awake at 3am, I am realising that as long as I do not need to record into BIAB, then I think I can get away with WAS. For some weird reason, that I cannot fathom, MME is not outputting to the laptops headphone Jack (!) . I can hear sound out of the laptop speakers but not when the headphone Jack is in. Typical BIAB dodginess.
I just do not see why I cannot run Asio4all on a laptop, without a further device.
I have not yet tried other options like voicemeeter. I may well do. I am just trying other possibilities

I may well end up buying another Audio device, but I don’t see why logically.asio is so hard.

Thanks for the replies.


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Last edited by ZeroZero; 12/18/24 11:37 PM.
Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k