Hey!
I’m a new user of the Qu-5 and I was wondering how to run a channel through my DAW.
The mixer is set to Multitrack and hooked up to my Mac. I can see all the channels in my DAW, but no sound is coming through as of yet.
Here’s what I wanna do: Main vocalist’s microphone is connected to the mixer’s physical input 1 (Local 1?). I want to send her vocal/this channel from the mixer → DAW on a channel with an effect VST on it → back to the mixer.
How do I do this?
Thankful for all help!
I use the Qu7 at our church. We recently got it and I was able to connect to Cubase on a PC. Mapped the channels and thus far it works! I am not in front of the board, so this is from memory.
There are 2 ways I can think of to route back to your vocalist. 1. By default, the USB input on the board, should be connected to stereo out of your DAW. If it isn’t, route the DAW outputs, channel 1 and 2. On the board, route the USB input to your vocalists mix. Cubase has a listen mode per channel and your DAW may have that and you may have to use it. 2. Route the individual channel back to an unused channel on the board. Route that channel to the vocalists mix.
If you get stuck, try running track(s) or song from your DAW back to the board.
Follow-up with hopefully some useful info.
I have the Qu-5, and before that I used the Studio One 7 Pro DAW basically as a processing device for the Livestream mix. I gotta lot of work needed since I’ve not used the DAW for a few months time without any mixer this past summer. It appears I’ll need to go through the plugin list and update a big stack of stuff.
So anyway, we now have a Qu-5 mixing for FOH and Livestream, plus the other mixes involved in my Church audio video.
I bought the Blue Cat Patchwork app which hosts plugins. I just created an effects process for the Livestream mix, inserting the Blue Cat Patchwork on the Livestream Master. Now I can go louder as needed.
The insert I mentioned is using USB channels 1/2 send and 1/2 return. And yep it’s got signal round trip.