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Music Creator 4 question
Am I able to go from labtop->usb->mixer->8 mics for drums and record?
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 8:18 AM
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welcome to the forum -
tentatively I'll say yes, that's a viable setup, but we'd need to know more about your specific gear before we could say definitely that will work. one thing to note is that MC only allows 2 simultaneous inputs for recording, so your 8 mics would have to be mixed down to stereo before being recorded in MC.
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 8:42 AM
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2nd place.... Welcome.
Yeah...give us the specs on the system. Laptop, RAM size, Operating System, version of MC, and the soundcard you are using.
that will help us a bit.
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 3:16 PM
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Im using windows vista 1024ram MC4
and i dont know much about soundcards but its just the one on my labtop (toshiba)
mixer is a Behringer XENYX 2222FX
or something very similar
wondering if its possible to have 8 drum tracks
then 1 or 2 guitar tracks
bass and vocals and mix them all together
recording them separately
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 3:28 PM
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no, it's not possible to record them separately if they're being played at the same time. as I said above MC only allows 2 inputs to be recorded simultaneously. besides that, your onboard soundcard only has 2 inputs available.
in your first post you mentioned USB, but you didn't list anything that's USB connected. what USB device are you talking about?
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 3:32 PM
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mixer were using allows usb from the computer to be connected to the mixed
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 3:53 PM
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Ok - then depending on the mixer/usb soundcard (the usb device in the mixer is a soundcard) you might could record more than 2 channels at a time depending on how many channels it allows simultaneously BUT MC does not. you'd have to upgrade to SHS to get more than 2 simultaneous channels recorded into separate channels.
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 19, 09 9:42 PM
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But you can overdub up to 32 tracks of audio. I think MC 4 is 32 tracks. So you connect the drum mics to the mixer, and record a stereo drum track, then you can go in and record your guitars, vocals whatever on different tracks. But only 1 stereo track or 2 mono tracks at a time with MC 4.
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 20, 09 2:41 AM
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Ok well thanks for that
Im here now and im having trouble setting things up
I have the mixer through a mic and like i said to usb connection and I dont know how to get the MC4 to reconize it
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 20, 09 7:00 AM
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I dont have much experience with the usb's, did you run the wave profiler in MC?
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 22, 09 2:25 PM
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well i got it to record
but i dont know how to get the sound to play back
I could play what I recorded but no sound
I have a realtek whatever in m computer and it wont let me use it saying its incompatibile so I have to put both out put and input drivers as usband that would be my mixer
so do i have to play it back through the mixer?
and how would i do that?
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 22, 09 4:57 PM
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You set the outputs of your tracks to the USB output. Connect (powered) speakers to the mixer's monitor or line out, or listen with headphones from the mixer.
You can also connect the mixer to a stereo and listen through that if you don't have powered speakers. Or connect it to a guitar amp. But that would be mono.
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 22, 09 6:19 PM
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Oh ok thanks man
got it working and stuff awesome
by chance do you know how to get seperate tracks from the mixing board
like lets say i want to do drum tracks and i have 8 mics how can i have 8 different tracks each for different mics?
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RE: Music Creator 4 question
February 22, 09 8:54 PM
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You connect the 8 mics to the mixer. If you want all 8 mics on different tracks in Music Creator, you would have to record them 1 or 2 at a time, since MC only allows 1 stereo input or 2 mono inputs at a time. Wasn't that answered earlier?
So you can record the 8 drum mics through the mixer into MC as 1 stereo track.
Upgrading to a SONAR program will allow multiple simultaneous inputs. but MC can't.
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