"Music Studio 15" TRACK input / output assignments
I'm trying to use an M-Audio NRV10 and the M_Audio ASIO drivers. (I've tried ASIO4All drivers as well)
I can assign mono inputs to the tracks I need but in the track OUT assignments I can only get stereo pairs in the list. ie Track1 > (1+2) and so on.
Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong ?
You're not doing anything wrong. Inputs will go in mono but the outputs will go to the stereo mains. . Unless you want to produce a mono song. Is that what you want to do? Output is generally stereo. Not too many people mixing down to mono anymore unless they plan on releasing for AM radio only. Even then, there are stereo AM channels now. You can pan them however you wish or leave them panned center if you really want mono
Hi..thanks for that explanation. I admit to being a newbie at this but here's what I am trying to do. I made a 4 (mono) track recording of the band I play in (with an Edirol R44) but the rhythm guitar couldn't make the session.
The NRV10 has 4 straight mono mic channels, 1 mono mic / line stereo channel and 1 stereo - 8 in all.
All channels can be switched to accept a firewire return from Samplitude 15. Plan was to feed the 4 tracks to channels 1,2,3,4 and feed the practice room PA using theNRV10 faders to get a rough balance.
Channel 5 would have the rhythm guitar mike fed back to the PC and recorded in sync with the existing 4 tracks. Mix down to stereo would then happen later in the DAW.
While writing this I see that perhaps I could send the 4 existing tracks to (7+8) and do the rough balance in the DAW. Would this be the best way around the problem? or is there a better way ?
Sorry if this seems basic but I've never done anything like this before.
ESOTERIC, I searched as you suggested but even in quotes Codecs for all brings up too many results and I got nowher. Anyway I didn't think I had a codec problem?. The NRV-10 manual actually covers what I want to do. It says use replay channels 9/10 to return all playback tracks to the studio rather than to send all thetracks back individually. (9/10 is an output not associated with a play/rec channel on the NRV ) But the M-audio ASIO driver (and asio4all) does not make that output available in the Samplitude15 outputs selection. I've have now done a successfull recording using 7/8 which is present.
So this answer turns into a question! should the available input/outputs, when using a particular audio interface and its' supplied ASIO driver, always show the same selection irrespective of the DAW you are using ? Or is it daw dependent ?
I think I have now answered my own question ! - after hours of trying alsorts...I downloaded the trial version of Reaper and selected the ASIO driver provided by M-Audio (with the NRV-10) That's the one I've been using all along in Magix MS15.
Now there are more inputs and outputs in the ASIO list than you can shake a stick at ! Every input and output on the NRV-10 is available for use and working.
So I can only conclude that the number of inputs and outputs that become available with a given ASIO driver does not depend only on the ASIO driver but on the DAW software it's being used in.
Thanks for you thought provoking replies. I think I might now try learning Reaper instead !