Using a Behringer Mixer w/ Logic

Ok, here's the deal. The only experience I've had with digital audio is Garageband, which I've used for over a year, and have had great results with, but I decided I wanted to try out something better, so I went for Logic Express, naturally. I have a Behringer Eurorack UB1202 Audio Mixer. I know it is in working condition because when I used it in Garageband, it worked like a charm. No setting up, nothing. Just plug it in and I'm done.

However, when I have the exact same setup in Logic, the program won't even acknowledge the fact that any sound is being produced at all. I have the mixer hooked up via a 1/4 cable connected to a Monster cable adaptor, which is then plugged into my Powerbook's audio-in port. If anyone can help me get this mixer set up without using too much jargon I'm unfamiliar with, that would be great.

Posted on Aug 13, 2005 11:19 AM

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Aug 14, 2005 2:50 AM in response to Brian Baliga

If the mixer is setr up the same way it was with garageband and that worked, then I should think you basically need to know how to record audio in logic. The setup externally should be no different at all.
Find an Audio track in logic make sure the correct input is selected for that channel and hit the rec button. You should see the meter move in relation the sound going in.
If not post back and we'll think what else it could be.

Aug 15, 2005 4:04 PM in response to Brian Baliga

Dude, I have all the experience of using computers with mixers, be it with garageband, logic, protools, cubase, digital performer, whatever you name it I'll make it work.
What I don't know is what your playing at in logic right now. My previous post was to assure this will work, and was to correct you thats it's not your fault or the mixers fault that it's not working with logic. You just need to figure out how to record audio in logic! Thats all!

Explain to us (the users on this board) exactly what you are doing with which channels/inputs/all the rest, and we'll be able to help. It's pretty hard to say what you did wrong when all the info WE get is, "I've plugged it in but nothing works now what??"
Give us more to work with and we'll help you as much as we can.

Are the meters in logic reading a level? If all you want is sound thats pretty darn easy! Just be specific.

Aug 15, 2005 5:00 PM in response to David_Pye

Ok, fine. I have a 1/4 instrument cable plugged into the Left Main out of the mixer going through a 1/4 to 1/8 Monster Cable Converter which is plugged into the Audio-In port of my Powerbook. I have a bass plugged in to Line 4 of the mixer with the level all the way up. The Main Mix level is around half way up. Like I said, in Garageband, it's fine. When I use Logic and hit record, it says "No audio track is setup for recording."

What do I set it to to make it work? This is all horribly confusing.

Aug 16, 2005 2:20 AM in response to Brian Baliga

Ok, as it says that you need to do what I said first.
Lets do this from the start, open logic if you haven't modified the autoload song lets just use that.

Find yourself an "Audio" track, it'll say Audio 1(or 2 etc) on it. Click on it.
In the bottom left of the screen you'll see a fader for this channel with a couple of boxes above the fader. These tell you where the signal is being "routed" to and from. The top one is the input, where the sound is coming from, an the one below is the output telling you where it's being played out of.
So set the input on the channel to Input 1. (if you can't see these boxes and the fader or "The Channel Strip" press 2 and you'll see the entire mixer) Then on that channel press the "rec" button right at the bottom of the channel strip.
This now means that channel and that channel only are ready to record with. If you are still not getting a level on the meter in logic, or sound coming through you probably need to look at the setup.
Go to the logic preference for Audio. Click on "Drivers" and make sure it's all set to your internal sound module, and everything seems to be ON, if you want to be able to hear the sound of your bass through the computer itself make sure the "Software Monitoring" check box is lit.
Logic takes a little bit more setting up to get it to do what you want but thats because it's capable of so much, you have to tell it what one of it's many talents to use. Where as garageband is far simpler.

If this doesn't help then you must be way off. Try taking a look at the thread i wrote called "Basic Tips for New Users" it details everything I just said above and more.

Aug 16, 2005 8:44 AM in response to Brian Baliga

Brian

You should take all of David's advice, and learn how to set up the recording yourself. This will give you some serious tools and creative flexibility that you did not have in GB.

However, one easy way to make LE "seem like GB" is to open up a GB file in LE. This should get all of your channels/tracks ready to go as they would have been in GB, as long as your prefs are set to the right audio in/out.

Once you have a GB song opened in Logic, you can see what all the knobs and doo-hickeys are for, since your familiar GB sounds and settings will now be presented to you in Logic-ese.

-Joe

Aug 17, 2005 9:20 AM in response to Joe B. 2

Hi Brian,
All I have done for a month is what Joe said. I have only been re-mixing my GB songs in LE. You can indeed see how LE handles the GB stuff, but some of it is not that obvious. If you used the regular reverb & echo, for instance, that will be in Bus 1 & 2, with Bus 1 being the echo, and Bus 2 being the reverb, but they aren't labeled as such, just Bus 1 & 2. Any AU plugins you used with be in the insert slots, and are labeled. I found my volume curves in GB were nowhere near as accurate as I thought they were. Points I thought were right where I wanted them to be in GB seemed a bit off in LE, so I had to readjust them. Many of the effects I had used in GB, I replaced with the LE effects. I haven't recorded a single note yet, but I am getting to know the layout of LE quite well by just re-mixing this stuff. Soon, I'll be done with this and ready to start recording new material. I think that when that comes about, I'll have a fair idea of many things, and will find it easier than if I just jumped in head first. That's sort of what I did with GB. Before I ever even got out a guitar, I played with loops for about a month, just learning how things worked. Have fun... make music!

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