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Originally Posted by
PuggaMahone
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There are digital mixers which have faders and knobs, such as Zoom Livetrak L20 or Tascam Model 24. Stay away from the mixers which require you to use an app for control, such as Behringer Xair or A&H Qupac.
You can use the Tascam/Zoom style mixers as an audio interface, and record thru the mixer into Ableton directly, thru a USB cable. Or you can record onto the onboard SD card, then later import the audio files into Ableton, via the USB cable between the mixer and the computer.
If you use this style of mixer, then you would bypass your other audio interface, which doesn't have enough inputs to accomplish what you want.
All of the newer mixers don't have any MIDI interface, except maybe the Tascam Model 12 (or maybe it's the 16? Only one of them has it!) They each have compromises, so do your due diligence.
There are other options. You could set up an AVB studio with templates ready, so that you can start everything and get to recording quickly. I use a digital mixer and don't need a whole studio connected at once... so, you'll have to ask other people how to set up an AVB etc type of system, if you want to go that route.
The only thing that you seem to be missing is that I
think that OP might want to record post fader - he wants the recording to be relatively close to the finished track, he doesn't want to record everything that is coming out of all instruments all the time and then edit later.
From when I last upgraded I found that the vast majority of budget digital mixers do not allow for post fader recording - they're designed with the idea that you record everything and edit and adjust relative instrument volumes later.
I'd love you to read my posts on this thread and tell me where I am being a dumb-**** and require educating! There are probably plenty!