I tried anyway - I can confirm Tracks Live doesn’t run under Lion! Setting up the audio interfaces to run with Tracks Live is extremely straightforward. I tried installing Tracks Live on another computer so I didn’t have to use my own machine during the gig but the borrowed Mac was running 10.7 Lion(!). This left seven sources from the PA mix to be routed via auxes on the monitor board to the Octopre. Because the room was relatively small the overheads and electric guitar mics weren’t needed in the PA and could be patched directly into the mic inputs on the 002r. The cable run was short and I was confident that dropping the balancing wouldn’t be a problem in this particular environment. However an 8 way TRS loom was available and although I hate bodges like this, the most practical way to connect everything was by half-plugging the TRS loom to the aux output insert points. There weren’t enough XLR F - TRS leads available to use the outputs and even if there had been, finding them in the available time would have been a challenge. As mentioned earlier, the monitor mixer has no direct outputs and although the 12 auxes offer enough outputs for discrete capture, the mix outputs are XLR M and the line inputs on the 002r and Octopre are all 1/4” TRS.
Recording to the system drive of my 3 year old Macbook Pro (for important work I would always avoid this) using a hastily borrowed 002r (working well with Yosemite with the latest driver) and a Focusrite Octopre connected and clocked via ADAT I had 16 inputs available with 12 mic preamps if needed. It was a spontaneous decision to record the show, which was taking place in a college. The gig was 30-40 minute sets from three bands and a solo artist. With 12 mixes, there were more than enough outputs available, particularly in combination with mic inputs on the interface for mics which weren’t needed in the PA mix such as the drum overheads - the venue was small enough for an acoustic kit with just kick and snare through the PA. The monitor board didn’t feature direct outs on its input channels so outputs had to be appropriated from elsewhere.
By running monitors from FOH, the monitor board could be repurposed to provide discrete outputs to the recording system. This system isn’t set up with multitrack capture in mind but the monitor board has a built-in passive mic splitter. The six monitor mixes can be controlled from FOH or the monitor position and either configuration is quickly configurable via an XLR patchbay at the monitor position. The venue is all analogue with a Midas Verona at FOH and an Allen and Heath Mixwizard 12M monitor board.
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