Playback/Record question

[CimontiParticipant]

Trying to ultilize the Playback and multi track recording for the CQ18. I’d like to be able to:
1. Upload pre recorded tracks in the first 5 tracks.
2. Play Tracks 1 to 5 while we record with the band in tracks 6-10.

Problem:
1. I am unable to load Recorded Tracks. Device unable to detect from formatted SD and also tried a formatted USB.
– Is there a specific folder i should drop the wav files in the SD?
– It can detect in the STereo playback but NOT in the multi track tab.

Please assist. Thanks.

[nottooloudParticipant]

Record some tracks to the SD card. That will show you how to format them. If CQ is like the other A&H mixers, there is a very limited spec as to what will play.

That’s just for playback, though. You’ll need to go USB to a DAW to do multitrack overdub recording, which is what you’re asking about. Reaper is cheap and excellent.

[CimontiParticipant]

That is so unfortunate and a huge missed feature. Just to clarify what I am trying to do is exactly same as below:

I was attempting to move to CQ from the brand in the video. So is importing file to a Project not possible in the CQ? 🙁 Hoping to not have to connect another device such as a laptop to do this step.

Please advise. Thanks.

[nottooloudParticipant]

A&H rec/playback has a very limited feature set. Using a laptop DAW is way more flexible.

[CimontiParticipant]

Yup. I noticed its very very limited and quite frankly a let down :(. my korg D3200 a decade ago and ZoomL12 from 5 years ago has this basic feature:(

[OgremicParticipant]

With so much dsp power it’s unexplainable why you need to carry extra hardware for such a simple task.

[CimontiParticipant]

exactly my thoughts. Thanks

[BRSParticipant]

Early days yet – put in feature requests.

I wanted to use tracks recorded on another device. I made sure they were 48KHz, 24 bit and named..
01XYZ
02ABC
03DEF
etc.
(obviously letters can be anything – KICK,VOX etc.

And replaced the WAVs in the CQ-MT001 folder which the desk had created for me on a short recording.

All worked fine 🙂

It all worked OK when I switched over.

[rtmeParticipant]

Ah, there are more who would like to have multitrack playback and recording simultaneously.

Early days yet – put in feature requests.

I just added the feature request here: https://community.allen-heath.com/forums/topic/allow-multitrack-playback-recording-simultaneously

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