sd card backing tracks... w/ and w/o a laptop

hello,
as i get closer to having a set of songs to perform, i have been thinking ahead about the options and different approaches to playing back the mix and adding the live vocals and guitars, etc. as far as i understand, the sd card output is post eq. this is a bit inconvenient, but not really a big deal if i feed an external mixer with those outputs (1&2) from the vstudio 100. what i'm having a harder time planning for is this, and i could be wrong (i hope i am), the sd card is coming out on the same outputs (1&2) that the two pre-amp channels come out on. unless i'm wrong (i still hope i am) i can't use the vstudio's on-board pre's for my vocals and acoustic guitar and still have separation to feed an external mixer. i'm not sure, but i don't think a laptop will solve this problem either. the other option is to mix the backing tracks to a cd or an ipod and either go straight to the external mixer with that mix or go into inputs 3&4 on the vstudio, but then that begs the question of what purpose is the vstudio really serving in this scenario? the sd card allows for a 24 bit mix down, but aside from that, it really becomes a hinderance because of the i/o restrictions that it brings with it.

is their to be a firmware update to address this?

can somebody correct me if i'm mistaken or share their experience and any work-arounds you may have come up with?

thanks,
matt
 

thanks coda,
bummer.... i was hoping to be wrong (groan).
if a firmware update would allow the option of assigning the sd card out to 3&4, it would really make a world of difference to this unit's functionality. it would allow for keeping the two pre-amp channels' outputs independent. that would be a major improvement in flexibility.

*may i make this an official feature request*

as far as four tracks to the sd card, i think a laptop (which i don't have) with sonar on it would solve that problem and then some.
thanks again.

codamedia

M@ B


thanks coda,
bummer.... i was hoping to be wrong (groan).
if a firmware update would allow the option of assigning the sd card out to 3&4, it would really make a world of difference to this unit's functionality. it would allow for keeping the two pre-amp channels' outputs independent. that would be a major improvement in flexibility.

*may i make an official feature request*

as far as four tracks to the sd card, i think a laptop (which i don't have) with sonar on it would solve that problem and then some.
thanks again.

 
Let's both make a feature request regarding the routing.
 
Your right that having a laptop easily solves the multi-track solution, but what the multi-track SD option would give is the ability to do some multi track recording without having the laptop around (stand alone mode), then import them all later. I could be mistaken with that one, though - although it is not a true multi-track - it may actually keep recordings separated during sound on sound. I think I need to experiment with that.

how do we know if our feature request has been seen by the cakewalk?

is there an official way to submit a feature request or this is it?

hello cakewalk,
*may i make an official feature request*
if a firmware update would allow the option of assigning the sd card out to 3&4, it would really make a world of difference to this unit's functionality. it would allow for keeping the two pre-amp channels' outputs independent. that would be a major improvement in flexibility and allow for some independent channel "out-board" processing when needed in a live setting.

thank you for considering this request.

sent it.