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i am confused, what the hell you want to do?

you want to record 4 separate stereo channels and re-record those into one stereo channel? right?

and you have a 8 channels card, right?

well, then route everything like in the screenshot, come in at channel one with 1/2 , channel 2 with 3/4 etc. etc ...

You say of course, but you never say what card you're using, so we have no way of knowing. Does this help:

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9240/screenshot20091227at921.jpg

I have Motu896HD as soundcard and my mixer looks exactly like the one on the picture. So how can I record all external ...

You say of course, but you never say what card you're using, so we have no way of knowing. Does this help:

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9240/screenshot20091227at921.jpg

I have Motu896HD as soundcard and my mixer looks exactly like the one on the picture. So how can I record all external ...

Tarekith wrote:Does your soundcard have 4 stereo inputs?

Of course.

chapelier fou wrote:For some reason you want to route your four buses in four tracks of your hardware mixer, and record the result back in ableton, right ?

exactly.

external outs from ableton to hardware mixer and then back to computer again.

Tarekith wrote:Sorry, I guess I am not at all understanding what it is you're trying to do.

I'm just trying to record different external channels into one audio file

Tarekith wrote:Send the master out of your mixer to one input pair on the soundcard. Don't route each mixer channel on the ...errr.... mixer to the soundcard seperately.

Then I lose whole my point to mix down 4 different channels. I guess routing thru Logic gonna be my only option.

I hope you have a good reason to do that.
Anyway be very careful, cause you could easily make an wire loop and cause huge damage to your ears and speakers.

My idea :

You should add a track in ableton, select a stereo input from your soundcard (should be enabled in the prefs), for instance "audio ...

I have one questions about how to mixdown 4 different external channels into one audio file for mastering. I'm sending 4 different buses from Ableton to 4 different channels on my mixing console and then I want to rout it back but I don't have any clue how to do it. Anybody knows?

So why same track sounds different in both programs?

Seriously man, you should have done a search. All hell is about to break loose in this thread now! 8O


Yes I know, I love both programs and Im using them in different ways to make different things and I would love to hear what other thinks about the sound engines. Thats all, no fighting, no war ...

I guess its a pretty common question in the industry world and I feel that Logic audio engine sounds so much better than Ableton but on the other hand its so much simplier to work in Ableton.

Im always producing track in Ableton and rewiring it to Logic where I mixing it. Sounds better.

Whats is ...

I get this a constantly recurring problem with Ableton 7 as rewire to Logic 8. When im clicking anywhere within Ableton the rainbow wheel shows up and i cant continue to work as its returning everytime im clicking on the objects. Sometimes erasing rewire files helps to dissolve it and sometimes its ...

Extended my buffer size and erased rewire files, its seems like its working again. Kepp u updated

Having big problem with Ableton. Im using it as rewire from Logic and sometimes when im opening the project again and im clicing anywhere within Ableton then it crashing. The problem doeasnt showing up when im opening only ableton.

workomgwith latest version of Logic and Ableton on latest Leopard.