The Pulse 16MX came in! And indeed it's hella awesome! While doing so I spent some time properly routing cables around between the Pulse, mixer, patchbay, and MOTU 828 and labeling things in TotalMix and Ableton. Kinda boring stuff, but super important for when I want to patch things around without having to stop band practice for 20 minutes while I fart around.
Shown in the photo is a literal rainbow connection. The XLR patches all go to the Pulse 16MX. These are for routing sounds from Live, typically for when I want to do an analog mixdown.
The row above the XLRs is for patching synths and mics. On the mixer those take priority (if something is plugged into the top, it disables the XLR). The top row is for inserts.
I have snakes not pictured here to patch in most of the synths as well as an insert snake that routes to the front patch bay.
Anyways I treated myself to doing an analog mixdown of one of the synthwavey songs we're working on. The new setup made all that a ton easier. The mix sounded fantastic too! Song isn't done yet (though it's getting close) so this wasn't a final mix or anything but I REALLY liked it.
There's still some things to do before the setup is fully complete but I'm liking it so far. Worth all the cost, headaches and time lost not making music or practicing sax? Between the sonic upgrades and the easier workflow I think so but it's probably still a bit too soon to say for certain.
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