Page 1 of 1
Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:40 pm
by meandr.mustard
Hey everyone, hope all is well.
This is my first post in the forum.
Name's Victor
I am setting up my home studio and I am a newbie to all of this. Former guitar player, now into electronic music.
I think I have gathered up pretty much all the gear I need, but would appreciate some input in figuring out the signal chain for the following:
Macbook Pro
Ableton Push
Moog Voyager
Resident Audio T4 Interface (Midi I/O & Thunderbolt); ordered
Woo Audio Headphone Amplifier
Sennheiser HD 800
Adam A7X (pair)
How would you go about connecting all of these together?
Thanks in advance!
Ciao
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:38 pm
by outsidesys
Welcome to the forum.
meandr.mustard wrote:Resident Audio T4 Interface (Midi I/O & Thunderbolt); ordered
This doesn't have MIDI I/O.
meandr.mustard wrote:How would you go about connecting all of these together?
Plug the Voyager into the inputs of your T4.
Adams plugged into the T4's 1-2 outputs.
Headphone out of the T4 into your headphone amp.
More info about setting up Live can be found here:
https://www.ableton.com/en/help/learn-live/
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:53 pm
by ImNotDedYet
Actually, you'll want the T4 outputs to the monitor inputs as mentioned.
An audio/headphone out line from the T4 to the headphone amp, cans plugged into the headphone amp.
T4 USB connected to laptop.
I'm not sure if you can go voyager midi to T4 or have to go directly to laptop. In my case with external synths, I go straight from Midi out from synth directly to laptop, audio out of synth to analog in on interface.
Push will also go directly USB MIDI to laptop. At this point, you might want to start considering a USB hub. (I know I need to...plugging in and unplugging too much)
In Live, you can then setup an external instrument for the voyager, audio in from channel on T4 and MIDI out to Voyager. Plenty of instructions on the web on how to do this.
Enjoy!
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 4:14 pm
by meandr.mustard
Thanks for the input!
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:31 pm
by sonik777
outsidesys wrote:
meandr.mustard wrote:Resident Audio T4 Interface (Midi I/O & Thunderbolt); ordered
This doesn't have MIDI I/O.
Please give an update about the T4 when you get it mustard, I'm pretty curious about that unit.
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:21 pm
by meandr.mustard
sonik777 wrote:outsidesys wrote:
meandr.mustard wrote:Resident Audio T4 Interface (Midi I/O & Thunderbolt); ordered
This doesn't have MIDI I/O.
Please give an update about the T4 when you get it mustard, I'm pretty curious about that unit.
Will do, it's suppose to ship out by the end of September.
I'm still having doubts on how to connect the headphone amp to the audio interface..
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:37 pm
by outsidesys
sonik777 wrote:outsidesys wrote:
meandr.mustard wrote:Resident Audio T4 Interface (Midi I/O & Thunderbolt); ordered
This doesn't have MIDI I/O.
Please give an update about the T4 when you get it mustard, I'm pretty curious about that unit.
Ah, my mistake. That's what I get when I don't scroll down the page.
http://www.residentaudio.com/specifications/
Re: Help with Signal Chain, Home Studio Setup
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:06 pm
by ImNotDedYet
meandr.mustard wrote:
Will do, it's suppose to ship out by the end of September.
I'm still having doubts on how to connect the headphone amp to the audio interface..
It depends on the headphone amp inputs, but I'm guessing your headphone amp will have a line in/RCA in besides the straight MIDI/USB? I went TRS out of the headphone jack on my interface into RCA in on the headphone amp.