wisebaxter442
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Hi there,
Just setting up a little home studio just for myself and am quite keen on having some physical buttons to play with as I can imagine that being a lot easier than using a mouse, especially as I'm on a lappy.
The thing is I've just bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2/2 as I heard the preamps are nice, so does that mean that getting a mixer is pointless as I won't be using any of it's inputs? If my guitar and my vocals are going through the audio interface, I won't be able to add any of the effects to those tracks from the mixer (reverb etc) will I?
Is there a product on the market that allows me to just map the physical nobs to controls on the plugins etc? Something that doesn't have any inputs maybe? I could do the mixing using software...or would you still say it's worth getting an outboard mixer to do that?
This probably all sounds noobish. I'm still a bit unsure when it comes to mixing as I've never got that far with a DAW before.
Just setting up a little home studio just for myself and am quite keen on having some physical buttons to play with as I can imagine that being a lot easier than using a mouse, especially as I'm on a lappy.
The thing is I've just bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2/2 as I heard the preamps are nice, so does that mean that getting a mixer is pointless as I won't be using any of it's inputs? If my guitar and my vocals are going through the audio interface, I won't be able to add any of the effects to those tracks from the mixer (reverb etc) will I?
Is there a product on the market that allows me to just map the physical nobs to controls on the plugins etc? Something that doesn't have any inputs maybe? I could do the mixing using software...or would you still say it's worth getting an outboard mixer to do that?
This probably all sounds noobish. I'm still a bit unsure when it comes to mixing as I've never got that far with a DAW before.
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