Ok, I'm using Reaper and I have a few questions:
1. How the hell do you route the outputs so then when you press record, music only monitors through the headphone out and not through my monitors, but when I press play, it comes through both? Not as big of a problem as it used to be before, cause I just shove whoever's recording vocals in another room, but would still be nice to know, so I don't have to turn my monitors on and off when I'm reamping.
2. I think I'd like to expand my channels. Now there's either two ways to do this as far as I know, go for a 2-channel SPDIF compatible mic pre and hook it up to the FirePod, or get another FirePod and daisy chain them. Obviously, I'll get 6 more channels with the FirePod, but are there any pres out there (for around the same price as a used FirePod) that would give me better results than the FirePod's mic pres? I think in the long run, I'd be happier with more than 10 channels (this way when I record drums, I can mic and trigger them), but what would you do? Is there any other route you'd take (ie: sell the FirePod and buy something with more tracks right off the bat)?
3. Is their any way in Reaper to run something like Steven Slate Drums on multiple tracks, without running it multiple times (like with Cubase)? I'm thinking maybe an Aux track would work, but I haven't tried it yet.
1. How the hell do you route the outputs so then when you press record, music only monitors through the headphone out and not through my monitors, but when I press play, it comes through both? Not as big of a problem as it used to be before, cause I just shove whoever's recording vocals in another room, but would still be nice to know, so I don't have to turn my monitors on and off when I'm reamping.
2. I think I'd like to expand my channels. Now there's either two ways to do this as far as I know, go for a 2-channel SPDIF compatible mic pre and hook it up to the FirePod, or get another FirePod and daisy chain them. Obviously, I'll get 6 more channels with the FirePod, but are there any pres out there (for around the same price as a used FirePod) that would give me better results than the FirePod's mic pres? I think in the long run, I'd be happier with more than 10 channels (this way when I record drums, I can mic and trigger them), but what would you do? Is there any other route you'd take (ie: sell the FirePod and buy something with more tracks right off the bat)?
3. Is their any way in Reaper to run something like Steven Slate Drums on multiple tracks, without running it multiple times (like with Cubase)? I'm thinking maybe an Aux track would work, but I haven't tried it yet.