Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar

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2010/05/17 15:20:26 (permalink)

Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar

I am thinking of buying the Eleven Rack from Digidesign since I am a guitar player.
It comes with Protools LE which I don't want to use. Does anyone know whether it will work with Sonar (I am still hooked on version 5 PE)? Since I already have an ASIO I/O box (EMU 1820M) will the Eleven Rack give an ASIO conflict or is it possible to have multiple ASIO devices?

Any feedback appreciated.
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    strikinglyhandsome1
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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2010/05/17 15:31:58 (permalink)
    Don't know it myself, although I've seen it, but you should be able to plug the outputs from the Eleven Rack into the inputs Emu and it's done. Some things specify that they have to be connected via USB to act as a dongle. If that's the case, you can still plug the USB in but you just don't use it. Similar to what many of us do with Line6 interfaces.

    It won't be possible to have two Asio drivers working together but done like I've suggested, you only use the EMU one in Sonar. Obviously you install the drivers when you purchase the Eleven rack but you just don't use them in Sonar.
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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2010/05/17 17:44:33 (permalink)
    Nice unit the Eleven. It will depend on how much the unit and effects are dependent on the software. I didn't know the  Eleven had a USB connection. The fact it has ASIO drivers will be a limit. That's one that will take some mind numbing research.

    Craig DuBuc
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    Richard Richard
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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2010/06/01 04:37:01 (permalink)
    Thanks so far.
    Someone else have some ideas?
    I am running is stand-alone now with the outputs in the EMU. However I don't know how to re-amp a dry track in this set-up.
    Any info appreciated.
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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2011/03/10 13:12:42 (permalink)
    Best thing to do is install Pro Tools and run the Eleven Rack as the interface so that you can look at it's "reamping" template.  When you reamp, you will need to change the Eleven Rack input from guitar to reamp also then use the out to amp to send it (if you reamp through a tube preamp otherwise I think it all happens in the box).  I use Cakewalk and notice a lot of the inputs aren't there like in Pro Tools.  I don't think reamping is all that cool unless you are running outboard preamps anyway.  One thing that was cool that I liked that is just slightly outside the box was using the Ultra G active DI so that I could use the mic in for guitar and it sounded a lot better with a little preamp boost.  I reamped once and forgot to change the input to line in for my Mesa Boogie Quad preamp and didn't even notice I did it.  I still don't know which track was the Eleven Rack when I listen to the song I recorded.  I can tell on some songs where I mixed the Eleven Rack sound with the gutar in but with the XLR in it adds some warmth.

    If you should happen to start using Pro Tools, follow the guide especially enabling low latency monitoring.
    post edited by TLTD - 2011/03/10 13:14:13
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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2012/02/17 08:11:10 (permalink)
    Have anyone else tried the Eleven rack and Sonar?

    I'm not sure wether I should go for that, or the POD HD pro.

    I've always had a line 6 unit (pod1, 2, pod xt and now a Pod x3) but the Eleven seems more "integrated" with the DAW.

    (it is supposed to send both wet and dry tracks simultaneous, and also saves the patch so it can be reamped and tweaked easily later)

    Guitarist March 2012 
    ... although for recording guitar you'd perhaps only really be interested in recordingtwo tracks
    to your DAW - the Eleven rack outputs a mono dry guitar track simultaneously with a stereo track complete with all of
    the onboard processing.This gives plenty of scope later should you wish to change the sound during
    mixing as the dry track can be sent back to the Eleven Rack and re-recorded with a different sound. If you use Pro Tools as your DAW there is a nice practical tie-up with the Eleven Rack in that you can embed the Eleven's current Rig settings into a Pro Tools audio region as you record them. The settings can be re-loaded back into the Eleven Rack directly from Pro Tools-
    extremely useful if you need to re-record some of aguitarpart at a later date or just want to exactly duplicate the sound.
     
     
    Sounds nice, heh?
    post edited by kristoffer - 2012/02/17 08:13:01

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    Re:Digidesign Eleven Rack and Sonar 2014/12/25 10:51:22 (permalink)
    I see this is a quite old thread but I just got an 11 rack and I use it with Sonar X3 producer.
    is there a way to route a recorded signal from Sonar back to 11 Rack for processing?
    it's called reamping, right?
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