Record live performance as audio?

petarl · Post by **petarl** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:46 am

Hi folks,

I plan to record an upcoming concert using a portable 8 track recorder. It's a typical rock band with 2 guitars, bass, drums, vocals and keys. I hope to get group outputs from the FOH mixer for most things, but I'll be pretty tight
on tracks. It'd be handy to get a seperate recording of my keyboards - freeing up 2 tracks on the recorder.

My question is this:

Can I use the Kronos to record a stereo .wav file of my own keyboard performance during the gig?

Regards, Karl.

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:17 pm

I believe in order to do that, you would need to be in sequencer mode, which would preclude you from lots of patch changes unless you did a lot of pre-planning.

IMO, the simplest option would be to just use an external recorder.

danhewitt · Post by **danhewitt** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:08 pm

If you have access to another two-track recording device, you could just stereo record the keyboard to that (keeping the same sample rate) and then recombine the tracks later.

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:10 pm

There's different ways that you can go about doing this.

One would be to connect the Kronos output to a a portable board and then from there you can send one feed to the main board in the house and another to your recorder.

petarl · Post by **petarl** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:02 pm

Thanks for your replies. I was hoping to save a couple of channels on the portable recorder really.

I'd be interested to hear about the sequencer method - I don't mind pre-planning as our setlist is agreed and won't change on the night.

HardSync · Post by **HardSync** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:44 pm

You don't need to use SEQ mode to do this. You can sample your playing from programs & combis, too.

In either program or combi mode, have a look at the Audio In/Sampling tab. From here you can record your live playing, if that's what you really want to do. (I wouldn't -- I'd rent/beg/borrow a second recording device).

If the Kronos works like my M3 does, you can even do program and combi changes and it will still keep sampling. Note, you cannot switch between combis & programs though. You have to stay in one mode - so no changes between program mode and combi mode. This isn't a huge deal since it's easy enough to convert any program into a combi - therefore you could simply stay in combi mode and freely switch. I have no idea about Set List mode though.

The prep you're going to have to do is decide how you're going to record. One song at a time as one wave? Or the entire set? You're going to have to decide in advance how much time you need. Once you start messing around with it, you'll understand what I mean. Make sure you give yourself enough time, and ensure you have enough disk space, etc.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:19 am

If you have enough time and really want to save tracks, just play everything afterwards. Should work fine for keyboards unless your monitor is running right into the mics on stage (in which case I would also recommend not recording on a separate device at all since it'll be really hard to phase align later on).

adamburgess · Post by **adamburgess** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:31 pm

Or, what I've done in the past - when channels are short - is to record the keys' performance as MIDI.