[LAU] Live mixers/recording

Len Ovens len at ovenwerks.net
Sun Jun 29 23:43:13 UTC 2014


Some of you may remember a while ago (year and a half or so) I was asking 
about mixers for live use. I finally have some money to spend, so I went 
back over the thread.

I also looked at some of the lower end digital boards like the A&H QU and 
the Soundcraft Si series. I found it interesting that the mackie has 
firewire but the other two have chosen USB2.0 even for a channel count as 
high as 32 i/o. The manual says "standard compliant" and will work with 
the Apple no extra drivers (nothing works with windows without drivers). 
Has anyone tried one of these with alsa? Considering the cost of a high 
count audio interface, the cost of this as an audio IF plus controler 
starts to look not too bad.

It is obvious that the main cost is hardware, pots, switches and 
connectors. The digital boards don't try to put in as much hardware, yet 
seem to be able to give more features for the same price range. It is easy 
to include a whole effects rack on almost a per channel basis only by 
changing cpu/dsp power.

I guess in many ways that is what we are doing with a daw... time for the 
open console design? Actually we have much of it already, it is just the 
hardware parts we don't seem to have. I/O ports and control surfaces is 
all thats missing.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net



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