Hi, Im using a number of instruments (electric drums, keyboard, mic, decks) with a MX802A mixer http://www.behringer.com/02_products/proddetail.cfm?lang=ENG&id=MX802A&type=220 recording into Cubase SX on my PC. What i want to do is to be able to listen to the rest of the song on my studio speakers or in headphones whilst recording just the instrument im playing onto a seperate audio track.

Iv had the problem of my Pc recording everything comin through the mixer back onto that solo track. Im pretty sure theress a way of doing what i explained with the tape to mix/tape to ctrl room function but i cant get my head round it

any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Hi, Im using a number of instruments (electric drums, keyboard, mic, decks) with a MX802A mixer http://www.behringer.com/02_products/proddetail.cfm?lang=ENG&id=MX802A&type=220 recording into Cubase SX on my PC. What i want to do is to be able to listen to the rest of the song on my studio speakers or in headphones whilst recording just the instrument im playing onto a seperate audio track. Iv had the problem of my Pc recording everything comin through the mixer back onto that solo track. Im pretty sure theress a way of doing what i explained with the tape to mix/tape to ctrl room function but i cant get my head round it any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Yep the way you do this is to have the main outputs of the desk going into your PC. Then you have the output of your Pc coming into the 2trk inputs, which enable you to monitor the recorded material.
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http://www3.baylor.edu/Comm_Studies/engineering/manuals/Behringer_MX802A_Mixer.pdf

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connect the computer's output to your tape inputs - engage 2trk to CR switch (sends recorded signal to phones and ctrl room)

- disengage 2trk to mix (stops the previously recorded signal from being routed to the main outs)

- connect mixer's main outs to pc line input.

The new instrument should be automatically routed to the main outs, phones and CR.

This will allow you to monitor both the recorded material and the new instrument simultaneously thru the phones output or the ctrl r out.