[TommyParticipant]

Thanks Lou. That one works like a champ. I used it yesterday and captured everything that was thrown at it with no errors. Importing into my DAW was a piece of cake as well.

[TommyParticipant]

I would understand that if the external drive required USB power, but it has its own power supply. The only thing that should be trying to go over it then would be the data. I will have to find a Sandisk Extreme then and try that.

Thanks

[TommyParticipant]

I am using Presonus Studio One 2 Professional on an ASUS R510C Core i5 laptop with 6GB of RAM. It is a 1.8GHz machine and it runs fine for the most part. When I use my A&H QU-16 with the DAW, it seems to run flawlessly. I have only used it 4 or 5 times though, but I didn’t have any issues that I can remember. It took me about an hour to get it set the first time I used it, but I saved the setup of the DAW as a template so when I was ready to use it again, I would open the template and wouldn’t have to redefine where each input was supposed to go. That’s the cool thing about being able to save templates into your DAW and scenes into your mixer.

Hope this helps.

[TommyParticipant]

Here I always thought it was just something the manufacturers were trying to do to steer you toward Mac products. I never realized it was Microsoft not wanting to keep up with Mac. Maybe I do need to look at getting a Mac when I upgrade next time. It’s all about that dollar when it comes to Microsoft.

[TommyParticipant]

Morning Mikeboy,

Yes I did have to download drivers with my setup. I am running my DAW on an Asus Laptop. Where ljefe is using a Macbook, if I remember the docs correctly, with Mac products it works flawlessly. They haven’t developed it enough to work completely with PCs and that is why you need drivers and are limited with what you can do when sending tracks back to the board. With Mac, you are also supposed to be able to control the board from the computer as well, where I don’t think that support is there for PCs.

Looking back at the A&H website, I am finding that I am correct with the MIDI control of the DAW – it is only available for Mac. Drivers are available only for Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 platforms only in the PC versions.

With my setup, I am running an Asus Laptop Core i5 with 6GB RAM. It has a USB 2.0 and a USB 3.0 port. I run the QU-16 into the USB 2.0 port and run an external drive out of the USB 3.0 port. This allows the DAW to access the software straight from the computer but record the tracks to the external drive. When I first started learning the DAW software, I did not realize you need to have the external drive for your audio to go to and I believe I killed the computer (had to send it to the factory for repair which took over a month!). The processor speed is 1.8 GHz. Now that I am getting better at the DAW, I am realizing that I am going to have a better computer. While Presonus says the DAW will run fine on the platform I have, I have heard that it is better to have a platform with at least 2 GHz speed. I have noticed that when I watch the performance meter on the software, that it is beginning to use more resources than what it used to. However, I am also using the system at my church to record the praise team as well as the preacher’s message. When I am recording the praise team, I am processing the tracks as well and sending them out to a CD recorder so the band will have a recording to listen to right after the service. I am sure this is part of why the performance meter is jumping so much now.

Not sure if all this information helps, but it is how I am running my DAW. It does seem to run a little better when I am recording straight from the QU-16 compared to how I record through a different board and Audio Interface on Sundays.

[TommyParticipant]

Not sure about the ones you’re wanting to use, but I use Presonus Studio One 2 and have had no problems recording with USB streaming. The only thing I have seen is with a mixdown, I can only send 2 channels back to the QU-16 (the L-R Mix). Sending each channel to the DAW is not an issue.

[TommyParticipant]

Used it last weekend to record a Men’s Conference for my church. Worked very well and interfaced seamlessly with the QU-16. Audio quality turned out a lot better than I expected it to turn out. I have not tried to do any post production of any of the singing, but have done post production of one of the sermons. I use Studio One as my only DAW since it is so easy to get to know. I normally use it in the recording chain for my church every week.

Don’t know if I would be able to help with any of your questions, but I am sure willing to help with what I know so far.

[TommyParticipant]

The new firmware upgrade includes one for each input. Just purchased a QU16 last week and went ahead and updated the firmware.

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