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Multitracking with Firewire? Possible?

anonymous
Submitted by anonymous on Sat, 02/25/2006 - 14:23

I've been looking to purchase a Firewire mixer/input device for use with my computer, but it's unclear to me whether or not these devices do true simultaneous multitracking in your DAW.

For example if I'm using an Alesis MultiMix 8 or a Pesonus FIREPOD with Cubase.. and I have four microphones plugged in is there an individual track for each mic in Cubase? or is it all mixed into one track in the DAW?

I remember reading a review of an Alesis USB mixer and the review said it was just one audio track in the DAW and not an individual track for each input.

Does anyone know if this is universal with all firewire inputs? Can some of them multitrack and some not?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot!

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anonymous
anonymous

Some firewire interfaces only do stereo (2-track simultaneous) while others do more tracks simultaneous. Firewire interfaces are capable of true simultaneous multitrack recording.

As for the Alesis MultiMix series, the USB models only do stereo mix outputs, but the firewire models do true multitracking. I own the Multimix 16 Firewire and I get 1 wav file for each input on the mixer, up to 16 tracks (8 XLR and 4 stereo line-ins) OR I can just get the stereo mix (choosen in your recording software). This model comes with Cubase LE which only allows recording 4 simultaneous inputs, so if you want more you'll have to get new software (I recommend Sonar).

Sat, 02/25/2006 - 20:42 Permalink
anonymous
anonymous

need help

hey broz i'm a new bee to this site
can u plz help me for the following things

first of all i have a cakewalk sonar 5 . i do have a 12 firewire multimix and a x-fi elite pro sound card
i wanted to know that does this mixer do simultaneous multi track recording in my software

is it worth my money and blends good sound??
how can i record the tracks by applying the effects of the mixer

will my sound card and mixer work together

does it gives latency and supports wdm and asio2?
does it do midi playback and audio playback both at a time
can i adjust the volume during the audio playback from the mixer
how about automotion??
plz answer

Mon, 03/20/2006 - 09:37 Permalink