External device help!

Hi WaterGuy,
There are a couple ways you can  do it:
1. find an unused pair of ins and outs on your audio device and hook the inputs of the RNLA to a pair of your IO's outs, and the outputs to a pair of your IO's ins.  For the sake of this example let's pretend you're using ins 3/4 and outs 3/4.  Insert the External Insert effect on your master bus and set it to use the 3/4 pair of ins and outs.
2. You can just go directly to your RNLA without an External Insert by going from your main output pair to the RNLA to your speakers (or mixer or whatever).

There are also some other ways to do it but they require patchbays or mixing boards with inserts.

Good luck
Dean

Yea, you have to rerecord the output once it has gone into your analog hardware.  On my TC Konnekt I have hardware analog compressors on a patchbay.  I send a stereo signal to outputs 1 and two and record back to 5/6 channels (1-4 inputs are the mic preamps).  I have a patchbay, but have this normalled.  You simply use SONAR to send the signal to the right outputs, and record the correct inputs.

I can send a mix out through those outputs to master (with any digital processing you want, too!), or just rerecord any stereo signal (like softsynths, or acoustic signals that I didn't have enough hardware to compress) with compression.  A patchbay also makes it easy to plug in an external preamp into the compressor(s).  Even without a patchbay, hardpatching a couple of outputs/inputs to your comp etc. is the way to go - if you have enough interface ins/outs.  Otherwise, you have to be sure you can get to your interface to repatch.

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