Is one way communication with DAW possible?

Qu Qu DAW Integration
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I guess I was stressed but basically,

that explains pretty everything :wink:

PS> How to you red underline a specific user? I just copy the name and put @ and , but like you see above, it works sometimes and it doesn’t sometimes.

you have to use the real username and these are not always the same as the name showing up
mine is @steffenromeiss and shows up as SteffenR

some more questions about your recording…

Do you have to do all the recording by yourself or is another person involved?
Do you have access to an USB audio interface additional to the QU-16?

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@elleestbelle

that would be your real username

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@SteffenR

and where did @elleestbelle come from?
It links to @quality info page but does not appear there .

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@SteffenR

to answer your question earlier,

Do you have to do all the recording by yourself or is another person involved?
Do you have access to an USB audio interface additional to the QU-16?

I am doing the recordings by myself, and it’s pretty busy, so I would like to involve some other person.
I think I mentioned above (maybe not) that this issue might not be technicality issue,
but relationship / political issues between people and departments.
There are so much more to say why I need to monitor this particular feed,
but I will save it for everyone’s sake. hell, I don’t even want to think about it anymore either.

I have an old audio interface that is connected to pc for live stream.

All the equipment is old, donated, second hand, under spec, etc.
As well as lack of professional knowledge of show staff members.

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@volounteer

I know what I suggested works fine. I do it that way.
It seems that your problem is really you not the gear.

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I am giving up explaining. You can think whichever way you want.

Sound engineers tend to have fairly object point of view for everything because of the works they do.
At least I tend to maintain that attitude as hard as I can.
but I guess that’s not all true for some people.

You do it your way, and I’m sure it works fine for you. No harm for that.
It just does not mean it has to work for everybody else.

The most you can do here is to advice, not dictate nor force.
Things might work or might not work depending on situations,
and there is no way to explain the whole situation here and there is no need for that.
If your advice works, fine then.
If not, oh well. Things could be different halfway around the globe.

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@QUality

I think you put the finger on your problem.
It is political.

Maybe you could find an easier way to hear what those folks are saying.

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@Quality
Well if this is any help.
I have done this in the past.
That is recording to a DAW [Reaper] from analogue in thrupough my QU32 out through USB B socket on rear [QU32} into an iMAC
And can listen ‘EITHER’ to Desk PAFL sound OR the REAPER CHANNELS that are sent back through USB into channel 31/32
I fader flip between Midi control of the faders and the QU level to PAFL.
Dose that make sense?
I’m sure you must be able to do that on a PC
However maybe not all DAWs can do this? I am unsure as I have only used Reaper
This video clip is about 3 years old and you might be able to ‘gleen’ some thing from it?
Oh and the iPad are just extension screens
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeJxslnHcx8

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@quality

Sound engineers tend to have fairly object point of view for everything because of the works they do. At least I tend to maintain that attitude as hard as I can. but I guess that’s not all true for some people.
What do you mean with that? let me resume it in my words what I understand with your initial posting You have an QU16 for live sound You want to record multiple tracks (more than 8 I guess) on a PC using Cakewalk The QU16 should exclusively used for the live sound Someone, who is not the technician of the live sound, will listen in realtime the signals which comes in to the computer but with a separate sound card (realtec stuff) during recording. you want to do that without extra costs, I guess.

from the technician object point of view I must confess that this is not possible now and in a more or less near future.
Why?
To record more than eight different signals on a PC you have to use the ASIO driver for the QU.
Any known DAW can only use one sound card at one time. there is no DAW which can manage multiple soundcards on the PC using ASIO.
Those two constraints are technical facts you have to respect.
What can you do now?
There are several possibilities to get a proper solution.

  1. Reduce the amount recorded tracks to max of eight and use ASIO4ALL as a virtual soundcard in your DAW. ASIO4ALL can handle multiple physical devices at the same time but with some disadvantages like the reduced number of channels from one device
  2. Don’t try to use two sound devices. route the monitor output of the DAW back to your QU16 and then from there to a monitor device for the one who wants to listen the recording input.
  3. use a different console, which can handle a network audio protocol like Dante, like an SQ. Then you can use the Dante Virtual Soundcard and Dante Via to solve your problem. Or you use a small two channel Dante to Analog device to convert the output signal of the DAW for monitoring.
  4. use an Mac and aggregate devices there for recording. As far as I know it is possible to use aggregate audio devices, two different physical devices as one logical, for the usage within the DAW.
  5. forget the idea of monitoring the inputs of the DAW and trust in god and the reliability of the technical stuff. This one would be the cheapest solution, but the one you will never accept, I guess.

But when you say

I think I mentioned above (maybe not) that this issue might not be technicality issue, but relationship / political issues between people and departments.
nobody here can help you with such a basic situation. It seems that in communities like yours hierarchical structures are really strong and if the person on top of this structure demands that the sky have to become yellow and green the same time instead of blue, everybody must do all possible and impossible to fulfill that requirement. I am lucky to not live in such a community and thank god every day for that.
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@Mfk0815
@QUality

We need to know what the REAL problem is.

Not discuss his point solution to whatever the unstated true problem is.
And his problem sounds political not auditory related.

Unless he is mixing live sound in RT with the DAW and then sending it to the PA system he does NOT need to hear the sound on the PC while it is happening. And if he is doing that why have a Qu at all?

He can hear the sound on the Qu and even record that sound separately in addition to the DAW recording.

If he did not need RT output from the DAW then he can listen as he edits and adjust to taste then.