It would be great to be able to assign the USB channels to any physical input, so as not to sacrifice the valuable microphone preamps with the first USB channels, and thus be able to assign them, for example, to the stereo jack inputs, and leave the microphone preamps free.
The stereo usb channel is already a virtual channel, meaning it does not take up any of the preamps. you can assign any of the stereo inputs to digital inputs if you need additional usb channels. Not sure if that is what you mean.
The problem is that it now assigns USB channel 1 to physical input 1, USB Channel 2 to Input 2, and so on. This “wastes” valuable microphone preamps. It would be great to be able to assign, for example, the first 4 USB channels to the 2 stereo jack inputs to leave the 16 microphone inputs free if we use 4 mono USB tracks.
I am not referring to a simple USB channel. What I mean is that when you connect the mixer to a daw via USB, the computer “sees” all the USB channels, and if, for example, in a song that is playing something on the first four USB tracks, they will necessarily be sent to the first four inputs of the mixer, wasting your valuable mic preamps. It would be interesting to be able to route those USB inputs to occupy the channels of the jack inputs to leave the microphone inputs free.
This can be done by reassigning the tracks to the outputs you want in the daw, but I have hundreds of songs for my shows already recorded and configured on the first channels and it would be very laborious to change them one by one. Some option to be able to re-route the inputs (analog and digital) would be wonderful.
To jjm35, when you connect the CQ to a DAW via USB B in multitrack mode, you have 16/16 channel send/return for the CQ12T, 24/22 for the CQ18T and 24/24 for the CQ20B.
For any track on any DAW, you can select to witch OUTPUT it will go in the CQ (in addition to the MASTER L/R).
The INPUT and the OUTPUT cannot be the same channel but you have the choice of all the other.
This selection cannot be done in the CQ.
Just set this channel to digital input in the CQ.
Hope this helps.
@Frenchie and @jjm35
I have the same issue as @jjm35 with MAcOs 14.6. and I have to sacrifice the first 2 channels to StereoOut in Mac LogicPro. Which leaves me only 14 channels to record live to DAW (LogicPro) if sometimes needed.
The preferences don´t allow to route the Stereo Out to CQ Channels 23/24…
Have any hints how to do it?
I might be oversimplifying, but here’s what I do. We are a three piece band (guitar, bass, drums, all three sing). I play guitar and also keys for a couple of songs. I do keys with a novation keyboard through MacBook Air running MainStage. On the Mac I set the audio settings to channel 17/18 for the usb link to the CQ20B, so I get them on the ST1 fader. This also works for Spotify for in between sets. In MainStage I right click the channel strips and ‘change all’ → output → 17-18. For DAW work at home I use reaper mostly. Here I select routing on the master bus and add a new hardware output (17/18) then delete the output 1/2. Little bit fiddle but seems to work. This leaves all xlr inputs free as we use all of them for everything else (including cor splitters for vocal mics so we can do anti-occlusion for IEM). If you need screenshots let me know…
The problem is that I launch the bass, drums, keyboards, percussion and backup vocals and metronome tracks on 4 independent tracks (three in stereo), so I necessarily have to put the multitrack mode on and that way it assigns to each track USB with the same physical input without us being able to change it. I could correct this by re-writing each sequence in the DAW with the USB tracks assigned to higher channels, but there are more than 150 songs, and on a mixer as simple as the Behringer XR18 you can route each USB channel to any channel you want. , the CQ20B should have that option.