Hi, I’ve been lurking on this great forum during an install of 2 new Qu-16s I am setting up. I’ve already found a lot of answers here so thanks!
On to my question.
Basically, I want to get playback from my DAW (Reaper) as a stereo stream, and I want it to come in on USB channels 1/2 (since that’s what the iMac system audio and Reaper outputs default to). However, I don’t want the DAW audio coming up on channels 1/2 on the faders, I’d prefer channels 15/16 so that the operator has local inputs 1-14 matching up with the numbering of the physical patchbay in the studio side.
The problem is I can’t figure out if there is a way to soft patch USB 1/2 to appear on faders 15/16. I can either get the default stereo output coming in on channels 1/2, or I set up USB 15/16 as an additional hardware output in Reaper every session. But I can’t work out how to just tell ch15/16 to take the USB ch1/2 audio. Am I missing something or this a limitation I’m hitting?
I think if there’s no quick way of reassigning the USB streaming I might experiment with restricting users to a custom layer only, where faders 15/16 are actually ch1/2 (this will work, right?).
Thanks for any tips you may have!