[LAU] Live mixers/recording

[Roger]

On 30/06/14 09:43, Len Ovens 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.
>
> -- 
> Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net
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Midas Pro1 (which runs on Linux) or Digico SD11 (which doesn't) would be 
my top choices for a small digital desk. Probably not in your budget 
though given the desks you mentioned. We run Digico SD10s and SD9 where 
I work.
I have always had good experiences with Soundcraft, but haven't used 
their digital desks.

Cheers
Roger