Mixer for keyboard to computer

[Magnum[SG]]

Hi all,

What mixers do you recommend for hooking up a pair of rokit5s & midi keyboard to a pc?
any cheap mixers to recommend?

 

[soft]

Do you already have an audio interface for recording? It might be more productive if you use that to link up instead of an audio mixer.

 

[Magnum[SG]]

What would you recommend for a reasonably-priced audio interface? I'm really not savy with mixer/audio interface brands. (didn't do-up the hardware before haha.. )

I'm planning to hook up the midi (novation remote sl35) n the pair of speakers (rokit5) to audio interface (M-Audio Pro Fire 2626 Firewire Digital Audio Interface) via usb instead of rca. Am i missing anything out here? please advise

 

[soft]

Do you already have the M-Audio Pro Fire 2626 ?

 

[Magnum[SG]]

Do you already have the M-Audio Pro Fire 2626 ?

No I don't, I put that up as referred, but dunno if really good or bad choice; I already own de speakers & midi keyboard.
Hopefully you can point me in the right direction

 

[soft]

If you are not recording a band (don't need many inputs), you can go with something like -> http://www.luthermusic.com/category/audio-interfaces-usb-fw/steinberg-ur22-usb-20

or

http://www.luthermusic.com/category/audio-interfaces-usb-fw/focusrite-scarlett-2i2

They both cost about $200+


Basically, what's going to happen is
1) You play the midi keyboard and trigger the sound in your computer
2) The audio interface (aka soundcard) will output (TRS) the signal to your speakers (TRS).
3) You can plug a microphone into the audio interface and record your singing too.

 

[Magnum[SG]]

Thank you for your recommendation, let me grab a few more response and I'll post my set-up in future.
Thanks!

 

[Magnum[SG]]

Hi there, I've gotten all parts hooked up, however, my imac is currently OS 10.8.4 and when i tried to download automap 4.5, it says to download 3.7.4; here's the twist, IT DOESN'T seem to exist!! can anyone help?

 

[Magnum[SG]]

Apologies, my imac OS is NOT 10.8.4; its 10.5.8

anyone can help me out?

 

[XenoJin]

I'm pretty sure the latest version of automap will work with macs, not sure.
Anyways, you don't need automap for your midi controller to work, automap simply just maps them for you~
You can simply use the learn function to map your controller~