I agree re cost effectiveness for sure, especially if you need a mixer with effects to also work as FOH - for that use case nothing beats it as far as I’m aware.
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XR 18 supports 48k. I record 16 tracks and it does consume considerable disk space. But, the laptop I record with has a second dedicated drive with 2 TB. I can record dozens of practices and gigs and still have plenty of free disk space.
I know you can select direction for individual channels. They can be set up to send from computer to mix or from mix to computer. I do that on my Tascam Model 2400. I do not record with GP on that laptop. The mixer does alleviate the need for an audio interface as the mixer becomes that interface. I have not tested splitting in and out on the XR. And I don’t know if the channels set to send computer to mix would get included in the recording or not. If it does, you would have to make sure you avoid a feedback loop.
With the XR, I use one laptop to record and one to generate sound. Obviously, you can’t plug them both into the USB port on the mixer at the same time. And I wouldn’t be able to use my GP laptop as the recorder anyway due to length limitations on USB cables. It’s a very interesting idea. I can’t wait to see what someone comes up with. I don’t have access to the XR at the moment, so I can’t test it for myself right now.
So, your GP laptop is using USB to connect to the mixer. There is no other audio interface involved?
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Yes, that is correct. Only using the XR 18 and the Recording function of GP (you can choose the INs and OUTs in GP which you like to record)
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