I wrote up a post on how to automate this in Ableton: “Octabridge” via Ableton
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Looks like a great console you got there! Cannot quickly find details of its onboard DSP and support for this mode in Studio One but I would be very surprised if it doesn’t support it!
Yes please!
Curious if anyone is using allen heath zed 10 or similar usb out of some OT tracks midi synced together with a overbridge device,
what about latency or other problems. But mostly I could never see it in bitwig ( windows) , think i tried a lot. Thought its broken, but audacity sees it…
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USAMO but it doesn’t work nearly as well with every interface and the customer support is pretty terrible. E-RM just works and has a lot more features and functionality. If you plan on going hardware in the future, it’s a worthy investment.
Don’t monitor through your DAW, that’s where the latency is incurred. Monitor directly from your sound card and you will find your latency is virtually zero.
Depends on your setup. I monitor through my DAW with various processing chains and I keep the block size at 64 samples, at 48k. The latency is practically imperceptible.
Good point, if you you’re processing on the way in. Are you processing in the DAW?
I disagree. The Usamo has been rocksteady for years here, with different audio devices. I use an output of my adat interface. It’s simple and effective and a whole lot chealer then the alternatives. What’s more, is that I had a very positive experience with the company. So, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Regarding monitoring, I´ve created different tracks for recording and monitoring, I don´t know if it´s the best solution but I want to monitor with the fader levels I use in the DAW so if I make a premix and then monitor through other place, the leved adjustment is lost and everything is to the max.
Anyway I have some latency.
I use a mixer as an interface and directly monitor from mixer I’m more concerned about clocking issues I find when I line up individual tracks to my ear and visually to the grid in the daw it still sounds off from internally inside the OT
It’s always solved when I just record master L/R of course just looking to see if there was a way to simultaneously track separately.
Using the internal recording machines like @thoughtstarZ suggested is the way I believe im going to permanently solve the issue
not on the way in and monitoring directly through the mixer
Permanently solve the issue? I fear your expectations are simply too high.
Since the OT cannot record directly to the CF card, but only to memory, it solves the issue only under very specific conditions:
- recorders are not used for anything else like dynamic resampling
- you are not using much of the memory for flex sample slots
- you want to multitrack only “short” sequences (up to 1 min.)
When using all the available RAM for recorders (85,5M) you can roughly record a little bit over 8 minutes in total with 16bit. So when multitracking, let’s say, 8 tracks, you are limited to around 1 minute audio per track (and no memory left for flex machines).
For me this is in no way a viable option and much more hassle than just multitrack using main and cue outs, but YMMV.
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As a new owner I plan to try Octabridge, the control freak in me is SUPER excited about this. Thank you very very much for figuring this out (and sharing)!
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Awesome! Hope it works well for you 