Its finally Perfect!! Audio Routing version 336 // Hardware Into Ableton live studio setup

[@seederiektdg8492]

Routing audio, rerouting audio, arranging gear , rearranging gear. I'm becoming a studio engineer assistant instead of a musician.

[@jazzroom]

Haha, totally ,i hear you man! We r wasting lots of precious time , moments of sparkles of creative inspiration in constant race for a new "vintage " or "hip" gear , new workflow, new studio "feng-shui" , etc,etc I've got to much gear , cable spaghetti, luck of space .....you got me thinking ;)

[@formerself4372]

The only thing that matters is that you're having fun.

[@jazzroom]

makes sense 🤣👍

[@Steve_643]

It comes with the territory when you want a home studio

[@elliskase2845]

I guess Im asking randomly but does anyone know a way to get back into an instagram account? I was stupid forgot my login password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.

[@AvianBreak]

The Rytm is absolutely a Digitakt on steroids. Traded up a few months back and never missed the Digitakt. Absolutely love the Rytm!

[@LunaticDandy]

Can you (almost) reech the sampling skills that the DT had ? I mean, do other things than percussions ?

[@FFosaG]

every update equals half a year of studying...

[@AvianBreak]

@@LunaticDandy Absolutely. The two things you miss are the detailed external midi controls and the chromatic keyboard layout. I transferred over several songs, many of which used longer melodic samples, LFOs on sample position, etc. Never hit a snag in the process.

[@perogie62]

@@AvianBreak What was your process transferring songs from Digitakt to Rytm? Just about to do that myself so would appreciate any tips/gotchas. Or a link to the magic "transfer all of my sequences, sounds, samples, and settings from one device to another" button 🙄

[@AvianBreak]

@@perogie62 It was a bit of a pain, but ended up being a good exercise in building muscle memory on the Rytm. I copied over samples using the Transfer app, I created the projects, and reprogrammed everything. That’s why I know I don’t feel like anything is missing, ha! I made songs sound 100% the same.

[@BXLrules]

Just labelled my Samson patchbay yesterday and rerouted some gear to optimise my setup, it's so satisfying!

[@_Dav1K]

Extremely happy to see you with the Analog Rytm MKII; I've been researching this particular drum machine for several months and ironically have found many conflicting opinions. I would greatly appreciate to hear your long(-ish) term opinion regarding the Rytm MKII, especially regarding the creation of kicks for house/techno. You opinion has garnered tremendous value to me personally as I've become a bigger fan of your channel. Thanks mate!

[@nkozi]

Also a dedicated RYTM mkII user - It's amazing; the sampler limitations in combination with p-locks and the analog voices make it a fun headtrip. Mine's actually getting repaired rn! Shoutout to your buddy Mario for helping me out. Overbridge tip- you can take the voices out of the main outputs so you don't need to have then "main" Rytm L/R and just use it as an effects send, including sending audio from your DAW into the rytm over USB. Wild shit. Also: For live sets, the RYTM and the MPC 1k are best friends, trust me.

[@CarlColglazier]

Just upgraded to the mkII and I'm loving the sampling capabilities. Great pair with a modular setup for weird drum sounds.

[@ArchersDreamz]

Just today I finished setting up my new X8P interface and Patchbay, which was inspired by you videos. Brain twister but well worth it. Thanks. Great follow up video and constant content.

[@CaptainAlbatross]

Am i the only one that starts your video's every time i come across one of them, just to hear that silky, buttery smooth filter sweep at 0:31? Even though your content is awesome and really interesting, that sweep man. Tickles my tingly places.

[@Slashings]

Idk how many times I've seen comments like *omg Enrique, I was JUST looking into "x device, or x matter" when you posted this video about it, thank you for that* But as someone who spent two weeks now looking into a minimal audio routing rack for direct monitoring and DAW exchange with my MPC2500, now I know the feeling and yeah it feels great, thank you for that Ricky! 👍

[@RickyTinez]

Hahaha perfect timing eventually! Happy to help slashings

[@joeytrambel]

i just bought myselve a tascam model 16 mixer/ audio interface recorder. it can do all this stuff without being difficult. even i Can do it. it sincs my anolog gear together without midi conected to my gear. can use it with maschine,(wich also is a interface) but just route it to my model 16 and sound comes out of channel 1 and two without audiocables coming out of maschine. Also had a ableton live light gift with a controler, so I'm learning to work with it. it connects and how i see it. i can record in ableton or my model 16 and just let i go round and round till im sathisfied with the sound. great maschine for the beginning producer. I'm just a beginner and excuse my English. Always check your channel Ricky. keep up the good work

[@davidg7136]

Nice 👌🏾 I was thinking of ssl nucleus 2. It's a mixer interface and control surface but idk about spending $2500😩

[@andrewgarner3428]

You really need to look into a midi patchbay now. Imagine having all your hardware connected up via midi in one place, and just by changing a preset have a completely new routing. You could change from itb sequencing, to using one of several hardware setups without having to unplug anything. It’s awesome. 👍

[@anthonyk5496]

Love it. I do the same with an ancient MOTU Midi Time Piece II. "Click" MPC land. "Click" DAW land. "Click" rackmount synth patch design land.

[@donartyone3258]

Make a video!

[@billbradleymusic]

Im routing the old outboard gear back in to get more creative. 🤞

[@landonh3535]

Happy to see you using the RYTM Mk II. I think I commented to you about this before - its such a good drum machine. I was surprised you hadn't been using it already. I use the same setup - OB into Ableton Live. Don't get any jitter - it's steady clock from the DAW. I can then feed that clock out from the RYTM to other hardware. It eliminates the need for a multiclock device. I also have been using the Maschine Mk3 a lot and it's not as "sexy" as the RYTM, but I wouldn't be blown away if you explore this path as well. It seems we have a lot of similar gear and make similar tracks. Your journey on here has many of the same challenges as mine. Which is why I love the channel!

[@lit3work]

Great video again Enrique! Funny ending too. I just got my sidecar by Output so will be slinging the patchbay in there and connecting all the inputs and outputs of my MPC X and MX-1 to it. Also use Ableton so this was very useful. Thanks again 💙

[@anthonyk5496]

Also, F all this AbelBridge NovaRite, I want to see you do something with that Portastudio! 0:34 Keep on keepin on Ricky 👍 🎹

[@A.V.O.O.V.A.]

Nice final words Ricky, as always thank you !

[@mrz80]

I just started down this road, ditching my MAudio Revolution 5.1 PCI card in favor of a Fast Track Ultra 8x8 USB interface. Some custom cable work brings all the inputs from the back of the unit to a 1U XLR patch panel. For 1/4" stuff I snagged a Proco 24/48 patch that looks to be about as old as I am. :D I'm having the time of my life setting all this stuff up.

[@davidg7136]

Sounds awesome! I have a fast track ultra but yesterday I got a scarlett 18i8 3rd gen so I'm rearranging things for the patch bay.

[@mrz80]

@@davidg7136 One thing I learned is to do whatever it takes to make sure the audio interface is by itself on a USB bus with an un-shared interrupt; in my case it meant adding a PCIe USB adapter to connect to the Fast Track. Cleared up most of my XRUN issues.

[@7soulgreat8]

“This is terrible. I don’t wanna be associated with this.” 😂😂 I ‘m stealing that one!

[@rdean150]

"You know that title is a lie" 🤣 Literally as the ad played before the video started, I was thinking about how you were going to reject your title. Didn't expect it so soon tho lmao

[@sapiotone]

Thanks for posting this, Ricky. I've wanted to more flexibility and lower latency in my setup for... well, since I got my MBP in 2013 and saw what Thunderbolt interfaces could offer. Just got myself a secondhand 828x! Reckon that'll see me through til I need a new computer and interface in 4-5 years. In the meantime, my venerable 828mk2 will live on through ADAT :D

[@AndrewBeveridge461]

My setup is similar. Audient ASP800 (8 channel mic pre with built in A/D converter) running into a Focusrite 18i20 then into an iMac. 8 channels of nice mic pres in the Audient, and 8 more in the Focusrite if I go crazy setting up a gazillion mics. I have a Reaper template that's a basic drums/bass/guitar/vox project and set up with my typical channels already routed based on channel 1 on the Audient is drum OH L, track 2 is OH R, 3 is snare, 4 is kick, etc. So easy to get a session up and running that way.

[@andrewcowan1577]

Really nice. One neat thing, that I'm sure you know, with Overbridge (or at least on the DT version of it) is that you can also sample over USB as well. As such I've ended up having an Ableton return track heading to the DT outputs and then just send stuff to there when I want to sample it. Once less thing for me to plug-in as I tend to take the DT to other rooms quite a lot. That said I am kinda tempted to switch to how you've done it for a bit as I can def see some benefits.

[@RiczWest]

Great as usual. Mac Minis RULE! :) I've been a long time Ableton and Push2 user which presents the same problem re session / arranger view... I find that I alternate - sometimes I (quite often) start in session view, then do a recording from there with the different parts, then switch to composer. Yes, you've then "locked in" those sounds, but copy/paste/trim is your friend :) Nothing to stop you rinse-and-repeating though... Other times, I just do things in composition mode, although I rarely flip back to Session mode as generally I've laid enough of a structure down. I've recently bought an MPC ONE and am still trying to figure out how to incorporate that beyond sample the output - that Overbridge Mode would be Awesome!

[@RickyTinez]

Those are all really good tips Richard! I’ll give that a shot. I have Push 2 as well and I really like it! But I feel that it forces me to work in session view more than I like. But I also wouldn’t really see the purpose of having a midi controller work in arrangement view haha. Record arm and... volume? Lol

[@ben1210]

2 screens, it changed my life!

[@MentPlus]

Nice! I did the same except I’m using a RME fire face 400 & a Avalon SP 737 as a mic pre. Love the patch bay it made my routing scheme outside ableton so much easier

[@Ancaja123]

Good use of the patchbay for the outs of the MPC. Need to do that with my 60 as well as my Simmons

[@anthonyk5496]

Hands up, who has NEVER messed with SPDIF? I've been ignoring it since my Soundblaster Platinum in 1999.

[@tavomb]

i use it only to be able to sample my playback on the scarlett 18i20 2nd gen i have (3rd gen they added the playback record function tho)

[@Phazerville]

@@tavomb I do the same on my Scarlett 18i8 2nd gen - SPDIF loopback. I've also used it to kinda chain two interfaces together.

[@1212rocketlauncher]

@Michael Aisuru You can connect to interfaces together for example, giving you more inputs.

[@davidg7136]

Me too now I understand how to use them thanks to my sensai aka KZbin

[@Dday1717]

Isn't that stereo?

[@phyzicaltrax]

arrangement mode gang approves this message 👌

[@Daphoid]

I can't hear Rytm without Bobeats. He must get a royalty cheque every time.

[@benmusicperson]

annalowg reetum

[@squoblat]

what happened to the soundcraft?

[@toujourspas133]

"Bobeats in da house" :p

[@BrandonAaskov]

I actually laughed out loud at that one.

[@zezic]

That beat is actually sounding dope to me :D

[@BaileyHeredge]

Cool to hear your thought process behind making beats. You gotta mix it up sometimes or you're just making the same thing and not really improving. Nice

[@graphene1487]

this is such an honest video. Thank you for sharing your experience homie!

[@hugevibez]

It's expensive but with analog stuff I prefer using a summing mixer. Most of them have daw outs as well, and I mostly use Ableton clips with midi out only, so that way you do catch "the tail end of the synthesizer" since you're only playing a note or doing cc, and you can expand to analog effects when financials permit it haha I'd recommend completely going a completely different route than the Analog Rytm if you need inspiration, something like a deluge, the circlon, maybe the medusa or just a polyend tracker or seq. And of course euro rack sequencers which you have been experimenting with. I feel the analog rytm mkii is an amazing device and was thinking it'd be perfect for you during the mpc section, but if you're in a bit of a sludge then just switching things up entirely is the better way to go and the analog rytm is just too similar of a workflow IMO On the other hand, the analog rytm is the perfect addition to such a set up, so hey I'm not saying you shouldn't buy it🤷

[@NaKilo91]

Another great video!! Can't wait for the next one!!

[@cameronallen2174]

“God this track is awful” haha I love you Ricky

[@sgkountz3280]

"I don't know if I made that", lol. Happens to me a lot after creating multiple tracks all week.

[@jacobn2011]

ending is awesome

[@stefanomilani83]

Remember to un-tick the delay compensation if you're using Ableton internal sync and sending midi both to overbridge and other traditional midi machines.. I have experienced lots of latency using ableton to sync externel machines while running overbridge.

[@Funkbutterfly]

Looking forward to version 337 :)

[@DoFunkk]

I actually love the Rytm jam :)

[@dufus5184]

Looking forward to seeing you making a track with the rytm

[@angeloboltinimusic]

Hey man! Would you be willing to share your lighting setup for these videos? Love the look of them.

[@Sinesquares]

Man, I have the exact same problem with you.. I love working on the session view but the tails thing can be so frustrating.. They should have like a looping starting mode and an end sample playback market or something to fix this.. Using external reverbs and delays is almost unusable for session view..

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

I think if you use abletons reverb and delays, instead of making them part of the sample, you don’t have this issue. It you wat to use hardware reverb and delays then maybe do some routing out and back into ableton. Have to check this myself.

[@Sinesquares]

@@FuZZbaLLbee Yeah, exactly. If you use plugin reverbs and delays you have no problem, but you’ll not be able to use your pedals and external effects.. The solution I’ve come up with is to just play the parts for as much bars you want them too and keep the tails when you place the part in arrangement.. But you’ll have to play like 16 bars (or as mush you need to) of a pad chord progression to keep that. To kind of fix this, I play a small part with the hardware effects and then place a plug-in reverb and delay at the end of it.. And it sounds ok..

[@antonioprosper7584]

The BoBeats Rytm reference 😂😂 Would absolutely love a video on the Rytm, just got one of the new black ones.

[@saber5401]

By the way, in ableton there is a way to correct your driver error compensation which is what is creating the latency on your audio tracks. Look in the built in lessons, there is a template set up to fix this. You only have to do it once. Peace....

[@ryanpwm]

spray de-oxit on a 1/4 and push it in and out of the patch bay and they will be smooth and clean for a long time. I have the samson patch bay. It is fantastic!. If you have any qualms about it, peep a few snapshots of Deadmau5's studio. He has at least two in his racks. great use of $100. I also really really feel like something you would fall in love with is the Handsome audio Zulu, passive tape emulator box. Something just tells me that it would become a favorite hardware effect of yours.

[@BigFknRobots]

Great video love your honesty

[@unkwn_io3350]

Love your content! Those headphones though...I know their nice but so huge!!

[@Komputerism]

Everything needs a MIDI in , out and thru . Even hats. No cutting corners.

[@eugeneortiz7141]

I achieved a similar setup but with the Digitakt instead of a MPC or AR. My audio interface is entirely out of my setup now thanks to Overbridge.

[@iqi616]

Complexity reduction is why I've gone DAW-free for composing and recording. I bought an MPC One and dug out my old Korg D1600 multitracker for capturing jams and building parts to sample. When I'm ready to "mix" I transfer everything to the PC but by then much of the mixing is done except for finessing. That way I don't get sucked into a black hole of plugins and indecision.

[@MajorOSC]

That Clarett uses the same DAC as a prism sound orpheus... Mmm mmm it's a nice. Damn midi drivers are absolute garbage though Ricky so if you ever stumble upon issues while you're doing your live stuff in studio, whether it be with midi sync, midi not working, or midi cutting out and not coming back until reboot, look no further. Fortunately most gear has usb midi so it's not an issue for me. I'm still pretty damn pleased with the 8pre USB version for the foreseeable future. Just sounds SO good.

[@555atU]

"..... I don't want to be associated with this". Bahahahahaha!!! I know the feeling.

[@LunaticDandy]

Info about the screen plz ? I'm looking for a 21/9 resolution but not too big (it have to be in front of my monitors so, not affecting the sound). It could be very interesting !(ps: sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker).

[@k3ff793]

woa did not know you work at focusrite. sad to say ibwill return my broken audio interface tomorrow :) have a good day

[@Kev-1k]

id love to see a dedicated rythm video from you. also you should try out a machinedrum!

[@-l5905]

Give us some Analog Rytm MKII vids. Thanks brother, Love ya

[@MikeGomeztheDMG]

Imma just leave 🤣🤣. Cool to see the routing man, thx for sharing!

[@ivanvelez7668]

Hi Ricky, my name is Ivan great video on how you have your audio routed. It looks cool. I have my audio routed from my audio/midi interface without a patchbay since my studio is set up in my bedroom and dont have room to hook up all devices then I'd be able to use a patchbay to audio route things the way I want to. I noticed you have the focusrite audio interface (the red one). I think Focusrite makes really good audio interfaces for audio recording. I have a digidesign 003 rack factory audio/midi interface by digidesign which is now Avid. I had it since '99. It works great still just that everytime I turn up or down on the volume I hear a staticky noise. So I cleaned the inside with a air spray and it was fixed but after awhile that static noise appeared again. So im having thoughts to just buy a new audio interface or just wait.

[@shahedsaffari365]

This is cool to see I read a lot of people having issues linking ADAT to patchbays. A newbie Q for you. I’m using umc1810 + ADA82000. And on the adat all the inputs are in the front meaning I would have run 8 leads from front of ADAT to back patch bay in row b? Think it’s correct but what makes me doubt is how ugly to have the inputs on the front haha

[@JamieFVidz]

why does my clarette 2pre have spidif input as an option both on the focusrite control and in the daw. but there is no plug for spidif on the back. is this the software loopback thing you mention here? cheers

[@outdatedgear5036]

I got a behringer xr-18 to mitigate all the headache of routing. The only gripe I have is having to use different software to control it.

[@davidg7136]

😬

[@chris.dillon]

Good PSA. Confusing topic for lots of folks and not a ton of videos. I've got my stuff to a nice place. Introducing overbridge caused the same stuff with USB midi. I have a MIDI router which does not like USB audio. So then I'm swapping usb cables for overbridge vs usb clock. :|

[@Robert-nf9dj]

This is so inspiring!

[@mylescaldwell4455]

Have you made a video with the 414 yet? I have the same one, I think. I Love it so much

[@wooliii]

Where did you get your desk? Thanks for the rundown !

[@JeremiahTrue]

I'm in the process of setting my audio I/O up and have two Motu Ultralites running as an aggregate audio device in Mac OS. All of the analog inputs are connected to a 48pt patchbay. I've had some issues figuring out what input is what in the UI since there are 8 TRS ins on each, plus SPDIF which makes numbers not quite line up on the DAW side. I'm picking up two A/D converters to access the SPDIF inputs as well and bring the total up to 20 ins using 1U rack space :)

[@_Zedlav]

soundcraft mixer still in your setup?

[@nateh.7510]

Hey man hopefully this isn't too off-topic but I've been getting pretty obsessed with the idea of producing and that's when I stumbled onto your channel. I've been learning about things like the SP-404 and MPC-2000xl but I'm completely new to the idea of creating music in this way (The only instruments I've ever played have been an acoustic guitar and piano). I've been looking at MIDI controllers as I'd be more familiar with that layout, but I'm wondering if 88 keys would be overkill (It would definitely take up a lot of room). I have a Music Hall MMF 2.2 turntable but I'm not sure if you need a specific type to pull samples from. Have I even asked any questions yet? My mind is so fried from all these YT vids lmao anyway your vids are awesome, thanks for any help.

[@afroman1979]

Awesome 👏

[@youngs_cl]

Question, don't you loose quality sampling that way vs directly through elektron transfer? Thanks

[@MayenMusic]

It’s the never ending story. How often does it change for you? For me is every week! 😆

[@bahutu802]

In case you're reading my comment: In case you'd take off a day or two from the computer and just connect let's say the Rytm / MPC, another sequencer, a synth, an FX unit and yet something else. What kind of (analog) gear would you use to mix those together (maybe route some sub buss to a record in).Which kind of mixer would you suggest / which features should it have? I'm asking out of interest of course, because I wonder what would be the best computer-free solution? (apart from the fact that I can't afford an 8 INs interface (with decent quality) so I'd rather have an analog mixer which routes everything hardware-related as some kind of a sub-mixer, and then into a 2 or 4 INs interface. Or would you suggest not even going this way but instead saving all the money for an interface with more inputs? But what if I wanna jam in the PC-free in the kitchen or carry some gear to a friend or rehearsal room - I wouldn't unplug and carry around a 19" rack device etc.)

[@thehater8389]

Very helpful video 😉

[@radical_ans]

**zooms in** I see you picked up Vulf Compressor. You give it a go yet? Does it compare to the SP303?

[@radical_ans]

Lol just got to the bit in the video where you use it.

[@dani538]

Nice and fast workflow. What are the specs on the Mac Mini?

[@andyread5363]

do you still use your mixer in the setup? Is that another setup.

[@duncanthompson957]

Brilliant! "I'll just leave."

[@stringsnare]

question!!! why sample into the MPC then back into Ableton? why not just use a midi controller or something like the korg padKontrol?

[@modularsoundbath]

Thanks for the video!

[@els1f]

There is never perfect 😁15:18 had me dying! 🤣

[@Funkbutterfly]

Haha I didn't think it was TERRIBLE. Dude is too hard on himself.

[@patbreacadh]

Cool setup. But ah ...• holds his chin • *Where's the mixer?* 😉

[@DrMrMooshy]

For real, get this guy an SSL SiX

[@Moerkie]

He's hybrid, so Ableton is his mixer... not the same, but if you see his 'keyboardcontrol skills' and setup with send returns he's doing just fine

[@patbreacadh]

@@Moerkie Mixers are bulky, fairly heavy, and perhaps more importantly, very horizontal devices, which take up a lot of real estate. And with the two audio-interface-and-patchbay setup I do believe Enrique is doing fine :-). The least stuff you have clogging up the work surface, the better. I'm just curious does he miss the mixer he had a while back, from a sheer sound point of view. I guess not. :-)

[@ryanpwm]

Board mixers just dont really make sense anymore except for uses where your quickly changing levels for different things, like a live show with multiple bands. Most of the time your going to set levels and leave them that way with minor changes until the song is done. Why devote a crazy amoun of space to a 16 volume up and down knobs? We know we're gonna use the eq in the DAW anyways. IMO mixers are obsolete for the electronic musician. Much better to spend that money on a quality rack EQ, and other rack FX. Either things that are character pieces that software can't do, or mastering units.

[@scotiushobius]

Sorry this is a question that's for a 3 year old video, but, do you have your 8 outs going out through your external mixing desk before your patch bay to your audio interface. I like to eq my 8 outs on my external mixing desk and in my mind I can imagine a way to have my 8 outs into my patch bay that would feed my audio interface through my mixer. Main headache is to figure out the solution of the mixing desk I have that has plenty of ins, but not equal amounts of outs. Would be awesome if you'd figured that out to work already.

[@joorchampi3346]

Your content is very good!!!! Sorry I have a question (sorry my english I am Spanis) You don´y use any conversor betwen sinyhs to inteface? Sound direct (jack in to interface) is good? I had a Motu 896 and I feel diference when recording via direct o SPDIF of conversor Ferrofish, more bass and high! thanks!

[@sudo-bandit]

Yo Ricky, what kind of headphones are those?

[@rautshsale1948]

what do you do at novation?

[@JoeBoomerMusic]

I love this

[@mathieupe666]

Why don't you put your multiclock plugin on a return track instead? This would allow you to solo tracks without loosing the sync signal.

[@BigGoucho]

Love the departure at the end. #shamefulbeats

[@RickyTinez]

😂😂

[@Josiefoshow]

Hey big fan of your channel. how do you run MIDI from Ableton to your synths? I’m struggling to find a good MIDI interface. Anyway any tips or gear you recommend?

[@TommyTheCollector]

Hahaha, first read the title and thought "Yeah right. We've all said that to ourselves."

[@MusicianParadise]

Oh man, you have a perfect pitch for BPM?!

[@shatteredsquare]

what's the monitor??

[@rnmultimedia7162]

Im having an Emmet moment-‘ i think i got it ‘. So... i have a 2000XL with 8 mono outs... plus the stereo outs - my goal is to multi track into Reaper the same way you have your tracks are set up in Ableton - i think i missed it tho.... so basically the patch bay holds the 10 outs from the MPC - then into the Thunderbolt usb interface? ( Where you have a Thunderbolt usb interface - i have an M-Audio M track) am i on the right track (no pun intended)

[@isaac.anthony]

That was a potential banger, why you gotta hate on your hidden gems @rickyT?

[@portcorner_noise]

Really enjoyed this but still have questions... maybe somebody can help me as I am getting really confused: I want to be able to connect two 19 inch rack pieces of gear, a Compressor and a EQ to my DAW master bus in Ableton through my M-Audio Air 192|6... will I be able to do it with this interface which only has 2 ins (already taken by my Korg Minilogue XD) and 2 outs (monitor outs, already used)... or will I need a mixer? and how to I go about connecting them? daisy chain?... thanks for any help!

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

I just record two of my synths as mono into my MPC live. Then I export it as an ableton file. That way I have the MPC tracks and the audio tracks as separate channels in ableton. I which I had more inputs instead of outputs on my MPC live

[@rnmultimedia7162]

Also - so if i am reading your setup right- I should probably have the following set up: 1. M-Audio MTrack 8 usb int. 2. Patch bay 3. Behringer Composer MDX 2600 5. Alesis 3630 6 ART Pro VLA2 7.Rockville EQ 8. EBW8 Power supply Um. Is this a good setup?

[@reganjo1955]

Tails and pickups!

[@Durosai]

Awesome video!