In short,- I understand what you do or try to do.timstoel wrote:@Bud
Thanks for your reply. I am mixing in Scope, so I am sending audio down ASIO and using the Scope mixer to mix with. I use MIDI automation in my DAW to control the mixer. I much prefer the insert effects in Scope over the ones in Cubase.
Channels 1-24 on the 4896 are my ADAT and XLR inputs from the outside world, and 25-48 are the outputs from my DAW. I use 6 of those channels as Auxes in my DAW, then those channels are default routed to the corresponding aux, so I have auxes in my DAW labelled "MasterVerb" "RMX-160" and so on. Some mixing also happens out of the box in a summing mixer, so it is a requirement for me to route all of this audio through Scope.
I use XITE and SCOPE different, last but not least being a keyboard player, arranger, composer.
Basicly,- the DAW is my "tape recorder" (and MIDI sequencer), the DAW mixer is my submixer, XITE-1 is the main mixer AND summing box and I use SCOPE for the AUX FX.
Like you, I also use a ton of outboard hardware,- synths, romplers, drum machine, samplers,- but there are also some dynamics and FX.
I kept a Yammy REV7 and D1500 Delay, Digitech Studio 400, Dynacord Delay, DBX compressors, Valley People Gatex and some more,- most connected to a patchbay or in prewired fixed configuration in different racks.
I use these striktly for the hardware keys and modules or when recording guitars and bass.
I don´t record real drums because I have a 1-room studio environment specialized on keyboard work,- so not many mics and I don´t need a s**tload of separate channels running from outside world to XITE for simultaneously recording.
I use sub- mixers for my keys and modules, nothing I had to buy because I buyed XITE,- all was there before I buyed XITE.
Now think of XITE as a piece of 1HU hardware like any other piece of hardware you have in your existing studio environment and not as a piece of gear you buy for 4.000.- bucks,- then replacing all of the other gear you already own so it can go into the sales completely.
Which summing box do you own, what is it really doing and how much did you pay for it alone ?
If you buyed a 16 channel NEVE offering parallel stereo outs, 1 of these transformer balanced, the inputs offering inserts, PAN and cue,- that alone nearly as expensive as a XITE.
Or,- think about buying a UAD Apollo ...
You get a multi I/O audio interface in a 1HU unit, 4 new SHARCs inside, connection is Firewire (not PCIe), Thunderbold optional only for about EUR 500.- here and it does nothing more than offering FX plugins and I/Os.
It costs EUR 5.500.- all plugins and Thunderbold option included.
Do you own a host computer offering Thunderbold ?
If not,- that will be the next investment.
In my age of 58 now next weekend, I come from the analog recording times and worked as a pro keyboardist in studios as also live for more than 3 decades and I learned dealing w/ limited ressources and working w/ gear "not working as advertised".
How many digital controlled analog synth´s or digital synth´s firmware/OS burned in eproms worked "as advertised" ?
Not many !
Since we work in the digital domain,- have you ever seen anything hassle free ?
Me not !
Even in the analog domain there was rarely hassle free work, the issues just only were different ones.
What you really want is,- running a DAW on a computer and connect XITE-1 to replace a complete studio environment others need several acoustically optimized rooms for, a large console, summing box, racks full of outboard gear, some real synths and other keys and invested over a million bucks.
That doesn´t work,- not when you go the Mac route w/ Logic and Protools natively and/or TDM as also not w/ UAD and/or any other computer only solution out there.
We all wish it would, but it doesn´t.
When you buy the largest UAD, the Apollo,- what you get is a FX box and a digital I/O matrix using ASIO or Core Audio,- not more and no less,- and it´s more expensive than XITE-1.
You can use XITE and SCOPE as a mixer and/or summing box or as a modular synth or running some of the other synths offered or as a FX box only or a combination of all,- but in every case you might come to the point running out of ressources and that will happen w/ any other piece of digital DSP gear too.
B.t.w, with no word you talked about your computer system you use to run SCOPE/XITE up to now.
Using the highest quality FX in SCOPE 5.1 means using the host computer´s CPU and RAM in addition too.
You might also have some other bottlenecks in your system.
Bud
), and I'd love to have an all-in-one project...