[Victor KennedyParticipant]

Good suggestion. Makes perfect sense, especially when you need to do a quick short trial before actual recordings.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

PS: You could have a dedicated MixSend (from 1,2,3,4, OR 5+6, 7+8, 9+10) which had all of the ‘Band’ chanels OFF and you just bring the Mic up in that mix/send. Depending on your overall routing you may need to ‘instantiate’ that mix/send OFF / ON during the performance.

Hope I’ve described this sufficiently for you.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

You could try using one of the Mono output sends or one of the stereo output sends. These are usually used for monitors, but no reason they can’t be applied for this task, assuming you haven’t already assigned them for other monitoring functions.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

SCENES will save channel strip settings. Not sure that you can do this per channel though…you’d probably need to do one Scene for each strip if that’s the way you want to go.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

something is still wrong in your OS configuration… maybe the SlowTools changed something in the background

Thanks for your reply Steffen.
What do you mean by “SlowTools’? I’ve no idea what that is, and I don’t understand why previously I had full audio, and now I don’t, even though I get the ‘white noise’ signal when checking Speaker Configs in Audio Setup in OS X…

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

PS:

I haven’t actuall overdubbed to these tracks with PT yet, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

See Nocola H’s comment in this post for overdubbing methods etc. It’s quite a way down on this forum topic…https://community.allen-heath.com/forums/topic/qu-16-simultaneous-playback-while-usb-streaming-into-daw

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

I’d say the best way to do what you want is to create a new Session / Song in your DAW (I use ProTools mostly) then import the tracks that were recorded using QuDrive into that DAW session.

I’ve done this with the couple of jams that I’ve recorded into QuDrive and they loaded up without a problem, and in fact sound great even without any FX or treatment within PT as yet.

It will depend on your DAW as to how you transfer these tracks. You can then delete them from your dedicated USB Drive/HDD that you use for QuDrive, unless you really need to keep them for playback in QuDrive. I wouldn’t keep them unless I need them for that purpose. Best to keep a dedicated USB for QuDrive.

You do need to individually name each track within the DAW because the A+H file format just saves them with a Number system.

Once setup in the DAW you’ll then be able to overdub endlessly.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

I’m pretty sure that’s not possible.

I’m a newbie also with the QU16 and did my first QuDrive recording on Sunday…3 of us going in Live @ rehearsal.

In order to playback the multitrack QuDrive session you need to make the ‘source’ for the tracks you recorded as USB, not Local. Even though we only recorded Bass, 2 Guitars, and a stereo feed from my Korg Kronos, QuDrive does in fact treat this as an 18 Track session, and can only playback those 18 tracks (unrecorded ones are treated as dummies).

You can’t then go and record / overdub as you would in a DAW.
Also, if you want to ‘import’ tracks recorded outside of QuDrive, to playback in a new Qu Multitrack session, you need to make sure there are all 18 tracks. By this I mean that if you only have eg: 8 recorde tracks, you need to make dummy tracks for the other 10 in order to have a session playback in QuDrive.

As yet I haven’t tried just doing a 2 Track Stereo QuDrive recording, but that should be easy enough.

Bear in mind that a multitrack QuD session doesn’t record the FX per channel, but if they’re still turned on, WILL apply those FX when you playback straight after recording.

My next task is to figure out the best way to be able to monitor the Stereo out from ProTools (ie Master Out) and also monitor ‘Live’ inputs that are going Into PT for tracking sessions…as in How To have PT playing back into ST1 (17-18 from PT) and also be able to hear the instruments / vocals that we are overdubbing.

So many layers, so many scenes…so powerful yet so easy to forget which layer had what selected.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

I cannot believe this. Surely it’s illegal. I just paid $2700 AUD for it last Monday, and have spent more money on stage boxes and other kit to accommodate the new Qu-16.

This is absolutely bad business. A+H should not be allowed to advertise Qu as being fully plug ‘n play with OS X when they know full well of this issue. This is utter BS.

I haven’t checked on your suggestion re USB3 yet, and don’t really understand exactly what you mean or how to fix it. I chose A+H Qu-16 instead of a Presonus of similar price and function, because I’ve had A+H old school analogue gear previously in the UK, and liked the solid build.
I’m mighty pissed off if what you say is true. It means that the unit is basically useless in my studio.
There will be trouble brewing if this turns out to be the case.

How do you use yours in the studio if you also have this problem?

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

Maybe you don’t have the correct ‘Layer’ selected in the bottom section of Qu?

I just started setting up today also, and I think that happened to me at first, then I noticed that the fader (in my case ST-1; set to Output 17/18 in ProTools) was not ‘active’ in Qu ie: i think I had the layers set back on Channel. Not at my
Qu atm but do check that.

Have you had any issue regarding distortion during playback from your DAW etc?
Please see my earlier post re this.

Cheers

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

Thanks Dave. I haven’t hooked up the Qu16 yet, but will report back when I have it all set up.

Currently I’m converting my sessions in PT from 44.1k to 48k, as Qu16 only runs in 48k, which may be beneficial for overall sound quality.

I think I did see a post in which someone said that using Qu16 with PT has some issue with the choices of latency available for the playback engine. Not sure about this yet…when using PT in the past with Behringer Xenyx I have had the choice of many different latency levels, from 32 up to way way bigger. I think someone said that with Qu16 and PT you only get a choice of something like ‘Low’ ‘Mid’ or High’ latency settings. I do hope there are more options available, but I won’t know until i set it all up.

Seems that a unit like this should have just as wide a range of playback latency as an old Behringer…time will tell.

[Victor KennedyParticipant]

Thanks Gary, good news. I’ll either make a short loom myself or see if I can find a 2nd hand one with a ‘box’ ‘n all on the end.
Cheers

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