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Patchbays
Hello,
I want to be able to easily patch into outboard gear from my audio interface and send it back into my DAW. Would I need anything to accomplish this aside from a patchbay? Could someone give examples of common ways patchbays are usually integrated into home studio setups? Or to word the question differently: What is the best way to incorporate outboard gear (comps,eqs,revs,multifx) into a DAW environment? |
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On 6 Jul 2006 05:39:54 -0700, "CN" wrote:
Hello, I want to be able to easily patch into outboard gear from my audio interface and send it back into my DAW. Would I need anything to accomplish this aside from a patchbay? Could someone give examples of common ways patchbays are usually integrated into home studio setups? Or to word the question differently: What is the best way to incorporate outboard gear (comps,eqs,revs,multifx) into a DAW environment? You can integrate them directly using today's advanced sequencers (e.g. Cubase SX) and a multi-port soundcard. In/out pairs of audio ports can be used exactly as you would use Aux sends and returns on an analogue board. If your sequencer doesn't have this function you can approximate it by sending designated channels to different output busses, feeding each to an external mixing board and using effects in the traditional way. Feed the result back into your DAW and record to a new track. |
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CN wrote: I want to be able to easily patch into outboard gear from my audio interface and send it back into my DAW. Would I need anything to accomplish this aside from a patchbay? Well, youll need patch cables, too, and cables to hook up another link in the chain. Adding a patchbay is not as trivial as buying a compressor or something. You need to think about it. Whether you actually need it or not depends on how much I/O you presently have. If you have an 8x8 audio interface for instance (8 inputs, 8 outputs) and just a few outboards, you might find that it works to leave your outboards permanently connected to ports on the interface, and then just route to and from them within your DAW. But if you're already using most of the ports you have availabe and have to share them with outboard gear at times, then a patchbay is the way to go. |
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Thanks for the insights, guys. I think I may have been planning for
more than I needed. Mike Rivers wrote: CN wrote: I want to be able to easily patch into outboard gear from my audio interface and send it back into my DAW. Would I need anything to accomplish this aside from a patchbay? Well, youll need patch cables, too, and cables to hook up another link in the chain. Adding a patchbay is not as trivial as buying a compressor or something. You need to think about it. Whether you actually need it or not depends on how much I/O you presently have. If you have an 8x8 audio interface for instance (8 inputs, 8 outputs) and just a few outboards, you might find that it works to leave your outboards permanently connected to ports on the interface, and then just route to and from them within your DAW. But if you're already using most of the ports you have availabe and have to share them with outboard gear at times, then a patchbay is the way to go. |
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