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@@tonyHogan1 DIY or die. Just a simple musician making music and sharing my thoughts.

I did use it with an Ipad, and was able to assign individual tracks in Garage Band App on Ipad. The outputs are 1 for 1 so with the Onyx 16 , you have 12 mic pre's or 8 mic pre's with 4 stereo inputs which is 16 USB inputs. You can swtich the main mixer out to go out on 1/2 or 17/18, depending on what you are needing. Live, for compression, I use a vocal processor for the lead vocal. If I need compression on background vocals I group them to a single effect processor, but typically I don't do a full band live, just acoustic with one vocal, and maybe a fiddle. For recording, I just record they dry signal of the Pre to USB and add compression in the DAW during mixing.

@diestromms: Good info - THANKS!

I am not sure which you are saying is not supportd, Onyx or Sonar? Are you using the new Onyx? I am not sure what you could do. I would recommend updating to a more current DAW rather than try to muddle with outdated software. There are some free applications available, trial versons. Mackie offers Waveform OEM, PreSonus has Studio One, some have use Reaper...

Assurez-vous de réfléchir à ce que vous pourriez faire... si vous ne jouez qu'à la maison... le Spark est vraiment cool avec des applications pour écouter de la musique et il existe un Spark CAB que vous pouvez obtenir si jamais vous voulez jouer. avec des musiciens plus bruyants. Le Katana est légèrement plus « pro ».

​@@diestrommsmerci pour votre réponse je vais bien réfléchir 😅

Any virtual instruments you would run off your DAW, the Onyx is just an interface...the latency is low for monitoring.

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@diestromms Not sure, I'll ask when I find me

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Yes, um, horrible speaker and uhmmm...horible presenter...and uhhmmmm, what else...oh yeah, I failed speech class. Twice.

My apologies if I said that somewhere...the Mackie Onyx does NOT act as a DAW controller. Tascam Model 12 is supposed to be able to act as a DAW controller, but most of what I have seen it is difficult to set up. I have yet to get my hands on and use the Tascam Model 12. It also allows playback from the daw tracks to assigned channels. The mackie only allows you to do this on channels 13/14 and 15/16 selecting the USB input which effectively allows you to sub mix two mixes back into the mackie.

First of all, you need a DAW. The mixer is USB, so you would set up your DAW to use the Mackie as the interface and assign each pre to a DAW record channel. (you can assign 1-1, 2-2 etc to keep it simple. Depending on which Mackie, would give you the alloted Mic Pre's. the 16 has 12 mic pre's, (8 Mono/4 stereo). The record out is pre-EQ, so you want to get your pre gain set before recording and avoid changing preamp gain while mixing.

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It's like a Octave mandolin, sorta, but with a much longer neck. Typically 8 strings, There are different tunings for it... Irish Bouzouki is GDAD with matched string courses and a Greek Bouzouki is CFAD with octave strings on the F and F courses. We use an Irish Bouzouki and an Octave Mandolin, but often tune them GDAE like a Mandolin.

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Do not have any hands on experience with either so can not speak to their functionality. Last time I used a zoom product was an early zoom floor pedal effects processor. It seems to have packed DSP features and multi-track features, but may be lacking with mic pre's and EQ.

At the time, I was running individual outputs from the DAW interface into individual channel inputs, just to show fader functions. You can sub out from the DAW to USB 1/2 3/4 on channels 13/14 and 15/16, that is my only 'complaint' with USB is that you can't bring USB playback on individual channels, but the idea of the board is that if you use it for tracking, you are going straight to the DAW and editing / mixing there.

As far as a flexible board, you can use for studio recording, podcasting, live rehearsal, etc it is pretty good. If I were to be just beefing up a home studio, I might look into a UA interface, with a slate audio controller.

Thanks for the encouragement, and taking the time to post!

@@diestromms You're welcome!👍

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Practice makes perfect.

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Me too! They (along with Flogging Molly) inspired me to start 'die Strömms'

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Good call, I didn't even get into the Parametric EQ as the intent was a comparison of the two amps. So the settings were as 'equal' as possible. The Mark V has more tone options than the Recto, but I still like them both.

@@diestromms If you really want to hear that Mark amp come to life, go to the IV or Extreme modes, on the knobs put the gain at 1 o clock, turn off the bass and mid, and turn the treble all the way up. Then for the sliders put the 80Hz near the top bar, the 240Hz and 2200Hz near the mid bar, the 750 Hz about 3 quarters of the way down the the bottom bar, and then adjust the presence knob and 6600Hz slider to taste. Instant insane heavy metal tone. The knobs are all pre-gain on the heavy channel, you'll want to treat them more like an overdrive pedal than an amp EQ. Marks are weird, but they're glorious when set correctly.

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I'll have to try that out!

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The more I dig into the core, I like it. The customization is pretty limitless. I am interested in exploring some Midi controlling.

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Dam !!! Mine came with free recording software , that doesn't work 😡 Still in the process of figuring it out how to use mine to record with 🤷🏻‍♂️

I didn'nt try the 'free software', but it works with pro-tools and with garage band. Each track lines up with the numbered inputs, it records direct off the pre-amp so there is it is not affected by EQ or fader, the leve is se by the input gain only.

I have not used it with a PC, I only have been using it with an Apple Mac Studio.

You should check to make sure your hardware is up to the task. You need to have the correct driver installed. mackie.com mackie.com/en/support/drivers-downloads Call Mackie tech support and see if they can walk you through setting it up. mackie.com/en/support/contact

For my purposes, I picked the Onyx 16, I use it as a portable mixer/rehearsal mixer and studio hub. It allows me to record directly from each of the preamps in addition to 2 channel recording, the profx only does a stereo mix over USB.

1. The SD card records the stereo mix. 2. You have two stereo returns from USB on channels 13/14 and 15/16 so yes with routing from Ableton you should be able to get two stereo sends (I did bus sends with pro-tools,) The SD card is on channels 11/12, so you should be able to play stereo from SD while playing synths from Ableton. The Send is 17/18, so you should be able to record the SD, Bus sends from the stereo USB input 17/18 in place of 1/2, I imagine it would have a lag at that point though...

There is a 24 channel version also.

This is just an interface, and meant for live mixing with a tracking function. If you are a producer, and working with artists, it would make complete sense to go with a DAW like Pro-Tools and get some waves plugins.

This is more of a dual purpose 'live' mixer that has a multritrack record function. You can record each track separately to a DAW, while recording a stereo 'live' mix along with a main mix and a couple monitor mixes simultaneously. For a Budget.

This would be an interface to get into a DAW. You might use this when rehearsing, mic up the band and capture individual tracks.

That is why I opted for the Onyx over the ProFXv3 as well as the ability to record individual tracks. Allen & Heath has a new line called CQ, that does not have faders, but seems to be a little more robust in the effects category.

No, you have to think of this as an analog mixer with the ability to record individual tracks to a DAW with the USB for later mixing. Wouldn't really work well with DAW plugins as an I/O.

@@diestromms I did some digging and the onyx did launch with waves in mind.

@@travishanson166 Interesting, my search is that you could use waves plugins with the Onyx-I series which are discontinued. The new Onyx 8/12/16/24 mixers are different.

@@diestromms that is interesting. I'll have to do more digging. Because it's possible to use a behringer usb interface to get connectivity too, but I'd be happy to just use an onyx. But truth be told, if it has 16 in and 16 out, technically waves is supposed to work like an insert or routed to an input.....this is the type of dilemma that drives me to buy stuff and try it out haha.

@@travishanson166 The mackie preamps are nice clean analog preamps. Behringer may have stepped things up with the merger with Midas, but I do not believe they use the premium midas preamps.

Yes, you can. The onyx does not have any sub faders, just an FX send and two monitor sends. I believe the intent is a multi-purpose mixer for small live gigs, rehearsal spaces and a basic, simple recording interface. When recording, the fader gives you monitoring feedback but the recording to the DAW is right off the preamp pre-EQ/fader channel.

Noted. Will do better moving forward.

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