Hi, I need some help figuring out why my DAW (Ableton) ignores CQ-18T Mutes and Faders When Using Multitrack Mode, but not when I use Stereo mode. Individual channel EQ still works in multitrack mode, compression still affects the channel, but panning does not affect the channel.
I have tried different source points including Post Preamp and Post AMM, but of course those don’t affect the fader or mute settings when it’s in Multitrack mode. Is this how multitrack mode via USB is supposed to work - individual channel strip controls, but disregard for fader or mute settings?
I also occasionally have issues with individual track signals not being sent to the DAW, and this is usually fixed by either changing the stream mode on the CQ18 or the audio output device in Ableton, but it’s another thing that keeps me from using the CQ18 in my home studio as well as for live audio applications.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Sorry if I didn’t understand your question correctly.
If you record 2-channel stereo, you have to somehow record the relationship between the channels, i.e. a finished mix including levels and pans.
If you record multitrack, however, you do that in order to create a separate mix from the individual channels later - completely independent of the live mix that was made during the recording.
For example, you forgot to unmute a channel in the live mix or you set it too quietly - no problem for your new “studio mix”, as it is still there in the multitrack.
And of course a single mono track cannot contain any panning information.
As a rule, you will choose the first source point where the signal is present completely unprocessed is used for recording the studio mix.
This gives you all the options for post-processing, regardless of what happened live.
But your mixer also allows you to use later source points if you really want to retain the channel processing of your live mix.
its how usb multitrack works.
usb return is pre-all those things. look at the diagram in the manual (like page 146 in the latest pdf). the last usb tap is post AMM, which is before all the mutes/pans etc.
Thanks y’all appreciate the replies and that makes sense. First experience with USB multitracking and thought the console would also operate like a DAW controller where fader shifts on the mixer would affect the DAW even though the CQ was just being used as an audio interface.