I know this is not Elektron related, but I’m really on the edge with this.
I have my debut live set tomorrow and we are recording for film, so I would love to record all channels from my XONE 96 separately into a second DAW I have connected to the mixer.
People say it should work, but I’m only getting the master channel 11/12 into my DAW.
Do you guys have any tip for me how this could work out… I already updated firmware.
There are buttons on the back to select the sources for the USB sends on the main channels, line or phono. Are they set to phono while you’re using line connections, or vice versa?
Yes… USB input is not a possible USB send source, only line and phono. Record your feeds in Ableton before output to the X96. Fader action isn’t recorded anyway with phono or line source. It s sent to USB at the channel input (pre-fader and eq), not post-fader.
Not sure why? Running a second daw sounds a lot more risky and CPU heavier than simply adding a few more audio tracks within the same project to record into. I mean, that’s basically why it’s so great to be able to do that.
What type of safety net would a second daw provide here exactly?
If you want to be really secure, add a second laptop and use the second sound card to record
Yeah but also if I have to pause, and play again because of synch issues of my machines, the recording stops. always better to have recording and performing separately. Why less CPU? I guess more tracks, more CPU on each DAW.
‘If you want to be really secure, add a second laptop and use the second sound card to record’ - Thats what I’m doing. sorry for misunderstanding.
Ahh I see. Hm. You should indeed be able to record separate channels on a second laptop afaik. Have you checked if it does work when recording on 1 laptop?
I don’t have the 96 anymore unfortunately, but exactly that I’m able to do with db4. Which does have more flexible routing. So pretty sure it should be able with 96. Gonna have a look at the schematics
Darn. Thought I could bring good news. I was a bit confused with the flexibility of db4 where I can simply select at which stage the signal goes back to daw. So the input doesn’t matter and could be USB.
On the zone 96 it’s limited to sending the line and riaa for the individual channels I’m afraid.
I will just record the master then, and hope that everything sounds good at the end.
Ihm also playing with live drums, so level ways I wanted to be a bit flexible after the show. Cause Live it’s always a different situation with the PA and stuff.