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Recording from controller and synth

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  • April 20, 2016 at 9:03 am #2386561
    DJ Vintage
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    My advice would be to get a small USB PA mixer (my current favorite is the Yamaha AG06). You hook up your DDJ-SB to one channel, you can hook up 1-2 mics if you need them and you can set your FL output to the Yamaha. Now everything you play will come out of the speakers that you also attach to the Yamaha. You will have individual control over all input sources so you can make them all sit nice in the mix.

    You can then send the master output from the Yamaha through USB back to (for example) Audacity to record that signal (I think the mixer even comes with an LE version of Cubase, but not 100% sure). And presto!

    Having a small PA mixer handy is ALWAYS a good idea in our humble opinion. Prices are very decent these days, the AG06 comes in at about 150 euro or so. Hardly a bank breaker.

    April 20, 2016 at 9:04 am #2386571
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    The most simple way would be to add a very small PA mixer with USB capabilities where you connect both devices to that mixer before going to your monitors. Then you connect the mixer back to a laptop with its USB and use a recording software (for example GarageBand, Audacity,…) to record the mix from the USB soundcard of that mixer.

    April 20, 2016 at 9:20 am #2386621
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    LOL … luckily the time stamp on our messages says we were typing this at the exact same time. Must be good advice if both moderators came up with it :-). Great minds think alike and all that.

    April 20, 2016 at 10:59 pm #2386821
    Dj Maestro
    Participant

    Thank you very much ,both , for your answers !
    I understand that I have to buy this mixer ,and I ll buy it. That I didn’t understand and you both wrote to me ,is that from the output of the mixer returns to a third ( ? ) laptop for recording ! So I need 3 laptops one for the Pionner DDj Sb with the Serato ,another one for the Synth with FL Studio,and another one that will record the Mix. Or there is the possibility one of these 2 laptops to record also ? I mean to have opened 2 softwares in one laptop ?

    April 21, 2016 at 12:20 am #2386851
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    If you need two laptops for DDJ-SB and the Synth I leave up to you (perhaps a setup with a laptop with an extra screen could be an option? Depends a lot on how you trigger things in FL Studio.

    But you can have one laptop (I’d use the FL Studio one I think) to record. The recording software, once you started recording, will just run in the background. If you use the FL Studio laptop, you can use the sound card in the mixer to output the FL Studio sound to the mixer, instead of using the laptop sound card headphones output, which will give much better sound.

    April 23, 2016 at 9:37 pm #2388061
    Dj Maestro
    Participant

    DJ Vintage thank you for the answer,I think your second option will be better !

    April 25, 2016 at 8:29 am #2388371
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Yes he is a rare Vintage 🙂 good suggestions all around.

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