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Hi AlienHealth,

Thanks for posting, especially the user manual.

U.S. price and release date?

If I wanted to use outboard pres and not got through the ADAT, will pluging them into the insert still engage the ZED's preamp?

Originally Posted by AlienHealth

You can leave the DAW and mix in real time, with the faders passing audio back into the DAW. This way you can use the EQ on mix-down, insert points, and all of the creature comforts of re-entering the mixer like in the old days of tape returns (!). Or, you could record MIDI automation data into the sequencer with the faders.

I'm guessing when recording in MIDI automation the faders would write the levels for each channel, but can you also write things like pans and changes to EQ, or is that pretty much set it and forget it?

Originally Posted by AlienHealth

We supply customized drivers for Windows & Mac computers which are based on the standard device drivers from TC Applied Technologies. The advantage of using these is that they are based on driver software that has been tried and tested with other products in the industry using the same device.

So, is this the same driver used with Presonus equipment? Oy Veh. They use the JET PLL. (I know a lot of others use JET PLL, but is it that same driver?)

Originally Posted by AlienHealth

“Why just a midi out? Why no midi in?
“Can one use virtual instruments and run those to the board?”

The ZED-R has no state indicators on the front panel which would be changed via MIDI into the device. Virtual instruments. The ZED-R16 could control virtual instrument parameters, but sending MIDI as a musical performance to a plug in instrument would be a little limited!

Huh? This goes over my head. State indicators? I want to plug a MIDI keyboard into the ZED R16 board, pull a virtual instrument from the PC, and record that to a DAW. That sounds impossible w/o a MIDI in.


It seems like a very intriguing board. As someone else pointed out, this sort of is falling in line with Mackie Onyx to the Yamaha n12 to the Presonus StudioLive to this. Trying to sort out the differences is a bit challenging, but it sounds like it's headed in the right direction.
Thanks so much for your assistance!