So, I finally got my NEVE 8116 summing mixer, fantastic unit and works like a charm, however with flexibillity comes choice and that’s where I struglle at the moment. Without taking too much of a deep dive of my setup, the way a summing mixer works, is that it basically gets 16 channels (or 8 stereopairs) out of Cubase and gets 1 stereopair back into Cubase. Now, here is the dillema, i can do 2 different setups, both with their own gripes. Am i overlloking something and is there a smarter way to do this?
option 1:
- Create 8 stereo group channels
- Define 8 external FX (7 with only sends connected: pair-1, pair-2, pair-3, pair-4 etc) and 1 with both send and return connected (this is where the total sum comes back into Cubase and basically everything routes towards the main mix as expected and u can use all Export/Mixdown options to render your track)
option 2:
- Create 8 stereo outputs
- Create 1 stereo input
- create an additional audio track
- press listen to on the track input to hear it
- Now I need to “record” my audio first in order to get a mixdown, since a live input will not be included in mixdown and when mixing down you can only choose 1 output… (and there is no way to reconnect outputs again to the main mix)
Then i thought of option 3:
- create 8 stereo outs
- create 1 external FX return (instead of an external input) and put this on the main mix
- This WORKS when i press play, but leaves the resulting WAV EMPTY after mixdown.
So, nothing is broken, everytihng sort of works, but what i really would like is using my subgroups (or additional OUTS) in Cubase without defining extenral instruments and to keep the export/mixdown process intact, not needing workarounds like recording an input first. etc. etc.
Thoughts?
