Using a USB input mixer with Reason
Posted: 22 Jan 2019
Hi,
I currently use reason in a live environment. I currently have an internal soundcard and take the phono output from the computer to a mixer and from the mixer to the speaker system. This works fine and having the mixer allows me to use live instruments and vocals at the same time as playback from reason. However, I have just moved to a laptop without phono or jack outputs.
I want to carry on doing what Im doing so I think I have 2 options here and wanted to see if you guys had any advice:
Option 1: take USB out from the laptop to an external audio device such as the focusrite scarlett, then output from the audio device to a mixer and from the mixer to the speaker system. (I do really need a mixer for my setup).
Option 2: bypass the need for the external audio device by taking USB output from laptop straight into a USB input on a mixer that has this type of input, then from the mixer to the speaker system.
Option 2 is preferred as I have a mixer in mind and bypasses the need for an external audio device. My question is whether any of you guys use a USB mixer and whether Reason will allow me to output the signal through USB to the mixer?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks
I currently use reason in a live environment. I currently have an internal soundcard and take the phono output from the computer to a mixer and from the mixer to the speaker system. This works fine and having the mixer allows me to use live instruments and vocals at the same time as playback from reason. However, I have just moved to a laptop without phono or jack outputs.
I want to carry on doing what Im doing so I think I have 2 options here and wanted to see if you guys had any advice:
Option 1: take USB out from the laptop to an external audio device such as the focusrite scarlett, then output from the audio device to a mixer and from the mixer to the speaker system. (I do really need a mixer for my setup).
Option 2: bypass the need for the external audio device by taking USB output from laptop straight into a USB input on a mixer that has this type of input, then from the mixer to the speaker system.
Option 2 is preferred as I have a mixer in mind and bypasses the need for an external audio device. My question is whether any of you guys use a USB mixer and whether Reason will allow me to output the signal through USB to the mixer?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks