Sep 23, 2006 08:52 am Hey Sturoc, welcome to the HRC.
I'm not sure what you have already, so I'm not sure what to advise.
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run all instrument's stereo outs to mixer then have the board convert and run to PC
Sounds like you're already working. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.
There's kind of three ways you can do this (the AD conv part).
1. you can sum all your signals in the mixer, and then output a stereo track (with all the signals in it) to your PC. Somewhere between the mixer and PC you would need a A/D converter. Some converters can be external, some (most) would be in the audio interface. A maudio 2496 would work for this, as would emu1212, ESI Juli@, etc. These are 2 channel cards.
2. You can use the preamps on a mixer, to get the levels to line level, then output each signal to a individual track in the PC. You would need A/D converters for each track, thereby, you would have to have a audio interface that accepts multiple inputs, or have a combination on interfaces. The Delta 1010, and ESI ESP1010 come to mind. RME, MOTU, and others also offer multiple input interfaces.
3. Digital mixer. These do the preamp, mixing, and A/D converting in the board, but may only output 2 channel (stereo). I'm not totally sure, so you'd have to research more.
I think there are multiple solutions to this operation, but you'd need to research and figure out what would work best for you. That's hard to do 'remote-control' style =).
hth
P.S. fill out your profile (over there on the right ----> ) so we can know what equip you have. Much easier for us to advise.