[LAU] Live mixers/recording

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

why not just use midibox or similar open source MIDI hardware to build a
suitable controller? audio interfaces are well taken care of already ...
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