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Spanky
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Jim Sturm
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 Posted - 08/30/2011 : 09:35:55 AM
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Just going to give a quick answer because you should get creative with it and find out for yourself.
In a nutshell - lots more patching options - more inputs, preamps, zero latency monitoring, external routing and hardware interfacing, sub-mix (stem) options, the list goes on and on...
Remember. Your software/firmware emulates what this hardware does with virtually NO latency and ZERO system load. It doesn't require a mouse and you can touch it!
JMO and remember, I come from a hardware background. I live in a hybrid world. I don't believe one mouse and a keyboard will ever fully take the place of two hands on real knobs and sliders.
-Jim
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garrigus
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Posted - 08/30/2011 : 12:22:32 PM
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Jim has some good advice there, but I'll go in the other direction. 
It really depends on what you need and what you want to do. I personally do pretty much everything in-the-box these days. I don't use a hardware mixer. However, I also have the V-Studio 700 in my studio, which sort of makes up for the non-outboard situation. The 700 provides zero-latency monitoring, it provides many inputs/outputs (so I can patch in outboard gear if I'd like), and most beautiful of all is the control surface, which provides a nice tactile feel during mixing. So I kinda have the best of both worlds.
If you like to use a lot of outboard gear, then a mixer can definitely make things easier. Plus (as Jim said), you could try recording through the mixer's preamps to get a different sound, and sometimes engineers will run their final digital mix through a hardware mixer to give it a more analog sound for the final master.
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dirtysteve
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Posted - 08/31/2011 : 4:46:39 PM
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You'll get much nicer amplification for your mics that will amp them closer to manufacturer's specs. The Yami will give a thicker, more substantial capture being an analog board with decent EQ options and built-in compression. Send the signal out from the board to the Line inputs on your interface. I'd suggest using the balanced 1/4 in. outputs from the mixer. Your sound will immediately improve over what you're used to from the M-Audio pre's (which is rather thin and sterile IMO). Yamaha's years of experience is built into those little boards.
It's also handy, if your Live room is a small spare bedroom, to use the onboard effects to add just a tiny splash of reverb to emulate the early/ambient room reflections of a nicer facility/room if you want.
While using the board as a summing mixer is tempting, you'll find in real-life that it's better just to stay in the box and use Sonar's Bounce feature; then master with whatever plugs you're using for that.
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Spanky
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Posted - 11/17/2011 : 3:00:58 PM
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Wow! I haven't been here for awhile. Thank you all for that info.
I've been involved in a "voice-over" project for a programmer. He's written a program for stock trader's. Simple stuff to do and he's really pleased with the results. May lead to some more "clients". I just took it on for fun but now that I've been "semi-retired" thanks to this economy snafu, I may have found a source of income.
S~
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