Yet another 8-Outs / Multitrack question

People here say that the 8outs is useful for doing multitrack recording "faster" but from what i can tell, that doens't make sense. I have recorded tracks into cubase using track-mute and MTC sync, one track at a time, and it works great. to do "multiple tracks at a time" with 8outs seems like alot of fooling with the mixer, plus you would have multi-tracked the 'pads' and not necessarily 'tracks'.

am i missing something? it sounds like the 8outs is more useful for using with an effect processor like the MFC.

however, it's a shame you have to get it just to get digital-IO. maybe someone who has the 8outs board could trace the pins on the 8out header which have the signal and it might be easy to make your own spdif connection.

i sort of agree with you. its really easy to do it one by one. dosnt take long at all

benjamin9999 wrote:People here say that the 8outs is useful for doing multitrack recording "faster" but from what i can tell, that doens't make sense. I have recorded tracks into cubase using track-mute and MTC sync, one track at a time, and it works great. to do "multiple tracks at a time" with 8outs seems like alot of fooling with the mixer, plus you would have multi-tracked the 'pads' and not necessarily 'tracks'.

am i missing something? it sounds like the 8outs is more useful for using with an effect processor like the MFC.

however, it's a shame you have to get it just to get digital-IO. maybe someone who has the 8outs board could trace the pins on the 8out header which have the signal and it might be easy to make your own spdif connection.

most people record only one instrument per track, which means when u multi-track ur recording one pad and one track

its real easy to get the mixer ready too

u dont have to have an MFC u can add effects after its track into protools

right, but it seems like the 8-outs is more useful as a "send out" type of setup for live play.

from most of the resources here i have been using tracks for each individual part, so multitracking with the track-mute seems the most logical to me. if you had a few pads needed for a chopped up loop or similar, then after it was tracked into protools or cubase, you would probably end up putting it back together - not a big problem though.

another way to look at it - you might have very many pads & samples, but not so many tracks.

and yes, so far my attitude has been to use the MPC for getting all the creativity done and the basics tracked. then after it's dumped into cubase i can arrange it, add effects, and record automation.

i prefer to keep it all in the mpc until i've got somthing really 'finished' though, because it's just so much more fun than the pc.

if its easier to do it by track mutes than by all means do it. It makes sense if you have 8 inputs on your DAW, if you only have an mbox or something similar then it really does not matter. But when you do get a digi 002 or something the 8 outs is BETTER, trust me on that

you can assign entire programs to an individual out on the 8 outs

or you can just assign individual pads to one, its ur choice

Let's say you got a sample that's chopped up into 4 parts, assign each of those parts to the same output (outputs if it's stereo)

issues wrote:you can assign entire programs to an individual out on the 8 outs

or you can just assign individual pads to one, its ur choice

whats an example of doing this.....like for what purpose, no beef, just curious.... cuz i never new this

beetjunkeeee wrote:

issues wrote:you can assign entire programs to an individual out on the 8 outs

or you can just assign individual pads to one, its ur choice

whats an example of doing this.....like for what purpose, no beef, just curious.... cuz i never new this

say u sampled some strings for main melody, and all them are in a program. ud wanna isolate those strings, so go to the mixer screen, then to "indiv", press "all ch" and assign the channels to whatever out u want from either of the channels 1- 8.

i do this because all of my sounds are separated by program. the main sample is one, drums are one, bassline is one. i rarely use more than 3 programs. each program has 64 sounds, so i have more than enough variety in each program.