[ChrisParticipant]

I use the qu16 connected via USB3 to a PC running Sonar Producer. I’ve had 8 channels recording to Sonar live, but I don’t know an easy way to record via the qu16 to a usb stick or hdd/ssd, and then transfer this to a DAW for editing. You have to load each sound file off the drive into the DAW, but I haven’t actually tried this. Also, to get the mixer to talk to Sonar (and probably other DAWs) you have load ASIO driver and fiddle about with it, then set up each DAW audio channel individually to accept the qu channels as inputs. But it does work!

[ChrisParticipant]

Hi Seikan, the card I bought and am happy with is: Sound Blaster Z PCIe (Amazon £60UKP). Good luck! Chris

[ChrisParticipant]

I had a similar-sounding problem (Win8.1, Sonar Producer). After about 10 minutes of recording directly via USB into Sonar, the sound became progressively distorted with added weird sounds and in the end became useless – and was present on the recording. Somewhat strangely I found changing from the onboard sound card to a Soundblaster PCI card did the trick. It’s not obvious why this should be unless there was some weird contention over memory on the pc’s main board. Worth a try anyway.

[ChrisParticipant]

Ok, thanks Bob & Mervaka. Seems like it would be a good improvement, after all a DAW can do it easily on discs and processors that are doing 20 other things at the same time 🙂

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