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spjuver wrote:

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

I have Motu896HD as soundcard and my mixer looks exactly like the one on the picture. So how can I record all external channels to only one audio file?

you simply record the output of the master after you routed everything like in the screenshot, into a new audio track in live. done.

Bounce/export all the channels as a stereo file once they are recorded. Or route all those tracks to a new audio track and resample in real time. All this is covered in manual if you are still confused.

SubFunk wrote:

spjuver wrote:

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

I have Motu896HD as soundcard and my mixer looks exactly like the one on the picture. So how can I record all external channels to only one audio file?

you simply record the output of the master after you routed everything like in the screenshot, into a new audio track in live. done.

Sorry I lied, forgive me

It should be of course Audio to Ext Out 1-2 etc

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. and go through the master and either re-record or resample the master. done. and that you can do in real time... so what is the problem?

SubFunk wrote: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. and go through the master and either re-record or resample the master. done. and that you can do in real time... so what is the problem?

i want to record external channels to one audio file.

spjuver wrote:

SubFunk wrote: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. and go through the master and either re-record or resample the master. done. and that you can do in real time... so what is the problem?

i want to record external channels to one audio file.

well, this (sceenshot) is how you do it. (plus creating one more channel for either choosing the master or resampling as the input, see your manual)

i can post a screenshot, i just don't have the possibility to choose 4 different stereo inputs for the example pic right now, cause i only have the laptop with out an external soundcard at hand, if that will help you further...

spjuver wrote:

SubFunk wrote: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. and go through the master and either re-record or resample the master. done. and that you can do in real time... so what is the problem?

i want to record external channels to one audio file.

Then why not just record the master out or the record out of the mixer like I first suggested? The 4 channels will be summed in the mixer to a stereo pair, which you record on one channel in Live.

Tarekith wrote:

spjuver wrote:

SubFunk wrote: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. and go through the master and either re-record or resample the master. done. and that you can do in real time... so what is the problem?

i want to record external channels to one audio file.

Then why not just record the master out or the record out of the mixer like I first suggested? The 4 channels will be summed in the mixer to a stereo pair, which you record on one channel in Live.

exactly... this will do what you want.

it just says input 1/2 in all 4 channels, because i have only my onboard card at hand right now (in your case you need to choose 1/2 - 3/4- etc., like in the other screenshot), but i labeled them ext1, ext2, etc.

and 'rec input' is where you choose master to record or resampling...

this newly created track i called 'rec input' will be your merged (recorded) track of the 4 external inputs. voila.