Ok here is my situation....this summer I will be spending a month or more up north at the cottage.....away from the studio.....but I still want to work on music (especially my own) while up there....including recording & mixing.

Mixing with external gear with Samplitude Pro X5

Thanks to jmizz15212 Films J-jigga for posting a question about using external gear while mixing.

In this video I show how to use the FX send and receive function of Samplitude. (also available in previous versions

Today was the baby step into this new way (for me) of doing recording and mixing. I was fairly certain (thanks to help from others here, audiokid in particular) about how to get going. Today braving the install of the RME HDSPe card into the Mac was step one. Before all that I had to setup power and network etc.

Any one that tries this, please let us know what you think and why you are into hybird mixing and chose or are thinking about choosing this?

Oh Ya! 2 Bricasti M7's are better than one lol:

I just did a mix for a guy on the slutz for fun. Spent a few hours, that's it. I didn't get all the track either so a bit is missing from the original. Not trying to get too involved but it was more to play with the second M7 that I just added. Listen to the drums on this compared to ITB. It was so easy to do this.

I'm very happy with what I have going but over the weekend I was searching around for ideas on how users might utilize the Direct Outs of a MixDream to further expand its abilities.