One feature I’m quite excited to use but not had a change to use yet is the loopback. It’s my understanding that it lets you record audio straight from your pc to an audio track in your DAW. Seems like a really quick and easy way to sample stuff on the go from all over the place like YouTube etc or even resample in your DAW. You had any experience with it?
My old audio interface wouldn’t do that. When I had my DAW open using an ASIO driver it would completely take over any other audio drivers not letting me hear audio from YouTube or the Internet.
I would have to disable the audio driver in my DAW which became a pain in the ass when I was trying to watch YouTube tutorials having to disable and re-enable it all of the time.
This audio interface allows me to play both sources.
I can use my interface for web browser audio and Ableton at the same time no problem. Its a Tascam US-4x4. Not sure if its the interface or being on a mac or what
I used to just have to change this settings to be able to listen to stuff outside the DAW. Not sure if this was available before win10, used to have the same problem way back
I honestly didn’t know this was a thing. I could do it with my old NI interface and now with the RME
too. I reckon it has something to do with the way your system handles audio devices and the drivers
for them.
You can also use multiple external cards at the same time and for example have system audio still play
over the internal one. That last setting is nice because sometimes I’d be working on some sound that was super soft, turn up my monitoring and then for whatever a system sound would play loud af haha.
I think I’m still getting WhatsApp alerts over my speakers though, I’d like all of those to go over internal speakers on the macbook.
I’ve just got hold of a Korg Wavedrum Oriental, fun little thing.
Here’s a video some dude made.
Also sent a message to a dude selling a Boss RE-20 space echo pedal for a good price, might pick that one up on Monday. I’ve been looking for one for a pretty long time, would work pretty well in my planned hardware setup.
Plan is to hook up some synths and boxes to my 16 channel mixer, then run pedal effects on the sends.
Good thing with the mixer is that it has direct outs post fader (which is apparently not that common) on all the channels, which means I can process the signal with the eqs and basically “mix it down” before it goes into my 8 channel Presonus card. It’ll be fun to try it out. Or, I could just run the master out straight into my reel to reel deck and cash in extra nerd cred.