I am currently using a Behringer UMC204HD for my living room set up.
I am running the Main Balanced L&R outs to my main living room system and running the Output A (1/2) which are unbalanced into an RDL input transformer that sums L&R into a single balanced mono signal which I feed into a single JBL monitor on my desktop.
It seems that the UMC (at least the 204HD) does not pass the instrument input to outputs A (1/2) or B (3/4), only to the Headphone out and the Main out, unless routed inside a DAW.
This means that when the DAW is closed, I can reproduce perfectly from my PC, but not monitor my bass from the JBL monitor.
As most of you probably know, as this uses ASIO4ALL, it is not possible to have audio from other applications when a DAW is running.
All this results in the fact that if I want to play along to Youtube etc., I must either use headphones or run through my main living room system (which is not always a possibility due to whatever else may be happening in the house).
Therefore, I have been looking for monitor switches and controllers. There are plenty of them around, but most will only do A or B (sometimes I like both the local monitor and the main system on at once), and also I haven't found one that will let me sum L&R to mono for one output.
I could go with a small mixer but it would be real estate that I really don't have at the moment. I also checked for ways to stream Youtube directly into Ableton (my preferred DAW) but I haven't found a way of doing this with ASIO4ALL. I also searched the Behringer forums to see if there is a way to get the Instrument input to pass through to the Output A (my preferred solution), but no joy.
Any suggestions?
I am running the Main Balanced L&R outs to my main living room system and running the Output A (1/2) which are unbalanced into an RDL input transformer that sums L&R into a single balanced mono signal which I feed into a single JBL monitor on my desktop.
It seems that the UMC (at least the 204HD) does not pass the instrument input to outputs A (1/2) or B (3/4), only to the Headphone out and the Main out, unless routed inside a DAW.
This means that when the DAW is closed, I can reproduce perfectly from my PC, but not monitor my bass from the JBL monitor.
As most of you probably know, as this uses ASIO4ALL, it is not possible to have audio from other applications when a DAW is running.
All this results in the fact that if I want to play along to Youtube etc., I must either use headphones or run through my main living room system (which is not always a possibility due to whatever else may be happening in the house).
Therefore, I have been looking for monitor switches and controllers. There are plenty of them around, but most will only do A or B (sometimes I like both the local monitor and the main system on at once), and also I haven't found one that will let me sum L&R to mono for one output.
I could go with a small mixer but it would be real estate that I really don't have at the moment. I also checked for ways to stream Youtube directly into Ableton (my preferred DAW) but I haven't found a way of doing this with ASIO4ALL. I also searched the Behringer forums to see if there is a way to get the Instrument input to pass through to the Output A (my preferred solution), but no joy.
Any suggestions?
