Recording with QU-Drive less than 18 tracks ?

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Hi everybody,
is it possible to record less than 18 tracks with QU-Drive? For example, i would like to record only the tracks 1, 4, 8, 10 and 17&18, is there an option to do that?

Thanks for you feedback :slight_smile:

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Simple one to answer!

No.

2 Track (stereo), 18 Track, or use USB B to a computer and record whatever you like with a DAW.

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Thank’s a lot for your fast answer. I suspected this but I preferred to have confirmation.

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I just copy the tracks that I want when I move them to the computer and then format the hard drive for the next recording. Or like Markpaman said just use a usb b to usb cable go into the computer and record only the channels you want.

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That is one thing I and others with like to see in a future upgrade if it’s possible. Kind of wasteful to eat up precious drive space with tracks that are not in use.

Some form of track arming would be nice.

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Yes, IMHO a useful feature suggestion.

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As long as there’s a big “Arm All” button, or “All” remains the default and you can turn off those you don’t want.

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Just select track “X” to not bother recording it.

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Hi All, this has been previously logged as a feature suggestion, however implementation is not straight forward because of file system requirements for Qu-Drive multitrack playback. Hopefully we’ll be able to introduce this in the future, but no promises…
Thanks.
Harry.

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Is there any chance of a public facing bug/feature tracker - even read only and limited to “opened, status, original description, official comment”?

Might be easier to link to things like that straight off for repeated queries?

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Thanks Harry
Is my request also part of the planning? Goes into the same direction and would be really good to have.

https://community.allen-heath.com/forums/topic/allow-qu-drive-playback-routing

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Anyone know where I can hear some stuff recorded on the QU

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Here are a couple of tracks recorded with my Qu-16.

Down by the River
Train Robbery

Vocals: Beyerdynamic V90r into Qu-16
Guitar: Taylor Acoustic into Bodyres pedal into Qu-16
Mandolin: Fishman Pedal into Qu-16
Bass: DI into Qu-16
Cajon Front: SDC into Qu-16
Cajon Back: Audix D4 into Qu-16
Melodica: peizo pickup into passive DI into Qu-16

Songs were recorded during a live performance multitrack onto a flash drive and then mixed down in Reaper. Please don’t judge my mixing skills.

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Sounds Great Thanks

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All of CBBC’s “Hackertime” series 5 (possibly available on iPlayer) was recorded through a QU-24.
Sample an episode here:

Stereo mix to the QU-Drive USB memory stick and all individual tracks streamed through the USB port to a PC running Pro-Tools.

Spoiler alert!!!
Recording of Series 6 planned for MAY 2016.

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tracks sound great; interesting choice of ribbon mic live

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Thanks.

The V90r is a hand held ribbon mic designed for live performance. It’s the successor to the M500. It has a nice warmth and I find it generally smoother than other dynamics I’ve tried. It can have some severe proximity effect but that is pretty easily dealt with using a low shelf or even multiband compression. Not trying to over sell it, I just like the weight and smoothness it adds to a female vocal.