How to solve this situation with Reason

[classic]

I am using a Behringer Xenyx Q502 USB mixer and whant to record my voice in reason while playing a vst piano the same time.

Unfortunately the voice AND the piano are recordet on the same audio track and are now ONE recording.
The midi of the piano vst exists of course but the audio is on one track together.

Seems to be a problem with the mixer I suppose couse all the sounds from the piano and my voice got into the main mix and are recordet together.

What I wanted to achieve was a seperate recording.

May be I overlook something.

Anybody who can help?
Do I need a new better mixer ?

Cheers
classic

[EnochLight]

I am using a Behringer Xenyx Q502 USB mixer and whant to record my voice in reason while playing a vst piano the same time.

Unfortunately the voice AND the piano are recordet on the same audio track and are now ONE recording.
The midi of the piano vst exists of course but the audio is on one track together.

Seems to be a problem with the mixer I suppose couse all the sounds from the piano and my voice got into the main mix and are recordet together.

What I wanted to achieve was a seperate recording.

May be I overlook something.

Anybody who can help?
Do I need a new better mixer ?

Cheers
classic

I'm assuming you're using either Reason 9.5 or 10 as your VST host? If so, then your VST piano shouldn't be recorded at all - it should reside on its own VST Instrument track with MIDI. If you're using Reason 6-8 and are hosting your VST in another DAW or VST host, then you need to correct your audio-loopback. But again, the VST you're looping back should be going to its own audio track.

What's your setup again? You're using your Q502 as an audio interface?

*EDIT: looks like the Xenyx Q502 uses ASIO4ALL for drivers (because of course it does.. *sigh* Behringer). Have you updated to the latest version, and have you tried messing with the ASIO4ALL settings?

[BertKoor]

RTFM of the mixer. Hint: use Control Room outputs for what you hear, and Main outputs for what you record.

[EnochLight]

RTFM of the mixer. Hint: use Control Room outputs for what you hear, and Main outputs for what you record.

Weird. In the 17+ years I’ve been using Reason, and the almost 8 years that Reason has had audio recording, I’ve never had to touch either of those for anything to record vocals.

[ShawnG]

RTFM of the mixer. Hint: use Control Room outputs for what you hear, and Main outputs for what you record.

Weird. In the 17+ years I’ve been using Reason, and the almost 8 years that Reason has had audio recording, I’ve never had to touch either of those for anything to record vocals.

OP has a digital mixer that has a side benefit of being an audio interface, not a regular interface, and the mixer is looping the output of the daw back into the stream being recorded. Not something that most reason users would run into, it would also happen on any DAW. I don't have this mixer, so I can't be real helpful, but I'm sure there's a way of routing all the channels through the mixer so this doesn't happen.

[EnochLight]

RTFM of the mixer. Hint: use Control Room outputs for what you hear, and Main outputs for what you record.

Weird. In the 17+ years I’ve been using Reason, and the almost 8 years that Reason has had audio recording, I’ve never had to touch either of those for anything to record vocals.

OP has a digital mixer that has a side benefit of being an audio interface, not a regular interface, and the mixer is looping the output of the daw back into the stream being recorded. Not something that most reason users would run into, it would also happen on any DAW. I don't have this mixer, so I can't be real helpful, but I'm sure there's a way of routing all the channels through the mixer so this doesn't happen.

Ah makes sense!

[BertKoor]

Manual: https://media.music-group.com/media/PLM ... B_M_EN.pdf
While reading it helps if you know what to look for... Page 8 says there's a useful "USB/2-TR TO MAIN MIX" button which will cause (or prevent) the DAWs output (USB input on the mixer) going back to the DAW's input (the MAIN output of the mixer)

[EnochLight]

Manual: https://media.music-group.com/media/PLM ... B_M_EN.pdf
While reading it helps if you know what to look for... Page 8 says there's a useful "USB/2-TR TO MAIN MIX" button which will cause (or prevent) the DAWs output (USB input on the mixer) going back to the DAW's input (the MAIN output of the mixer)

Oh yeah - the Xenyx Q502 manual! I thought you meant Reason. Nice find!