My current “DAWless” setup mainly consists of a Digitakt, an OB-6 and a Yamaha MG10XU mixer. There is more but for the sake of simplicity let’s stick to these for now. Everything works fine, mixed stereo out to the monitors and all good. I now want to start recording my synths in Cubase. I’m trying to think of the best (simplest) way to do that while maintaining my current setup without having to change too many connections every time I need to use Cubase. Just to give a bit more context, the mixer I’m currently using does not allow for multitrack recording.
Combining all the above, getting an audio interface would allow me to get audio from my synths via USB straight into my computer, or through the audio interface (e.g. for my non-Digitakt synths or where USB is not needed). I would then get the audio interface’s out to the monitors.
The above would completely separate the Yamaha mixer in my current setup from the DAW (which makes sense as the mixer only outputs 1 stereo channel). To record and playback through Cubase I would have to connect my synths to Cubase either via USB or through the audio interface but also output audio from the audio interface to my monitors (monitors can take 2 inputs so one would permanently be from the mixer while playing DAWless and the other one from Cubase when that’s needed).
Does the above make sense? Is it possible to have all DT tracks via USB into cubase PLUS all the other audio sources going into an audio interface and then to Cubase at the same time to allow for simultaneous playback and recording?