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Three cheers for Geosync! (George from Yamaha Corp.) This man should get an award and a nice fat bonus for customer communication above and beyond the call of duty.
On an earlier post, I squawked about the single AUX SEND on the n12. After talking with Geosync, I found out that the ST OUT could also be used as a monitor mix, for a total of two aux sends on this board.
Apparently this derives from the design focus of the n12--it's primarily a home studio recording interface with OTB mixdown and some live sound capability as well. (Geosync, feel free to correct me on any of this).
IMHO, the Mackie Onyx boards are desinged primarily for live sound, with multitrack recording capability but no OTB mixdown since only two channels are returned from software to the mixer. The live sound design approach helps explain Mackie's decision to only allow recording of the dry signal.
My understanding from Geosync: To get more aux sends from the n12, run a snake from the inserts of the n12 to the line ins of a second analog mixer (let's assume it's a 16-channel device). The n12 inserts are treated like additional outs.
So you now have let's say, channels 1-8 on the second mixer fed by inserts 1-8 on the n12. From there, use the second mixer's aux sends and monitor out to create additional monitor mixes. Between the two aux sends native to the n12 and those on the second mixer, you would end up with four to eight aux sends in total.
Beyond that, if you were inclined, you could group channels 9-16 on the second mixer and send those outs back to ins 9-12 on the n12. So, the second mixer becomes a submixer feeding the n12.
Going forward, I'd like to see an n16 or an n24 model with at least 4 aux sends built-in to the board for monitoring.
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