I have setup SFP environment to accept ASIO (24 cha ) into a recording mixer as well as analog in and wave in ( all connected to recording mixer) or sould i say routed ... in the project i'm currently working on i have also 2 Modular 2 patches hooked up to the mixer as well ( 60% of dsp power is used) ...
Logic: setup the environment to control Korg prophecy, Modular with various additions like aggregators, signal splitters
Rewired Reason and plugged in 8 VSTi's (Model E, Atom etc)
Midi flows like butter controlling, cc's, program changes all devices are happy and working together... i can bounce vsti's no problem ...
BUT: here is the trick .... Logic understands all 24 ASIO cha. fine in its ellaborate mixer ... however when things are connected OUTSIDE of ASIO
that is Prophecy feeds into one of the Analog IN' (availiable on the card, Analog OUT is used for monitoring) Modular that feeds into SFP recording mixer... Logic "can't hear" the devices cause they are routed outside of ASIO chanels ... Logic anc control them but the output signal is routed to "master out" from the SFP so it never comes back into logic as audo which is where the problem comes in ... I can't record audio from the "external" gear ....
where i was a couple of days ago: i was thinking about getting either a luna 2496 box that expands SFP Electra with 8x8 analog IO ... and hooking up prophecy (and other synth that want to get later ) into it and routing all of it in SFP but after a little more research i tend to think that even with external io box i'll still be "outside of logic reach" because all of the virtual routing will be down in SFP....
then: then i was thinking about getting a Roland VM3100 pro ... (without rpc-1) ... and using its digital IO together with Luna's digital IO to bring analog devices into the computer ... however again i still would be "outside of logic"
so now i'm little bit stuck and pondering if i'm thinking about this too much and frying my brain ...
in conclusion: infact i still think about the mixer and io box just for the future expansion ... regardless if this is solution to the issue of recording external instruments into logic or not ... but for now it really puzzles me because i have a feeling that perhaps i'm missing something in logic's routing capabilities and not making the connections right....
basicaly if i can take the Analog IN, Digital IN, and route it into an ASIO channel (virtually) this wouldn't be a problem but ... it seems i can't grasp the big picture of how to do it or weather its possible at all.
ok now that i boored everyone to death any advice, general suggestions, flames for being a "monkey on a stick" are welcome.
Gor