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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff
I actually bookmarked that page yesterday! Thanks for detailing your purchases!
I must ask though, what would be the benefit of mixing a track outside of Audacity with the Alesis, as opposed to doing it in program? I'm still quite a newbie to all this.
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No prob - it's a matter of technological limitation. The integrated sound card on the motherboard of PCs is ****e. That's why people buy external DACs and such. And that limitation is terrible for recording, as most onboard soundcards can only handle a single stereo input at a time. So I could only record one mic line, or external sound source in real time. Useless for two gents chatting into dedicated mics with a third stereo channel of line level audio.
That's where the mixing board comes in. It handles input from multiple dedicated stereo channels simultaneously, with controls for input levels, effects, etc, and transmits that audio data via USB to the PC. This preserves each independent audio channel and assigns each automatically to a separate channel in Audacity, granting me the flexibility to adjusting the individual recordings separately in post production.
Does that help?