Audio Recording

If you want to record using a microphone connect it to your soundcard's Mic input. Keyboards, mic preamps or mixer outputs should be connected to the Line input. Make sure that the input you want to record is selected. The Recording menu's Audio Input Control option pops up your soundcard's input controls (this will be Windows Record Control in most cases). Here you can select the input(s) you want to record. This option does not appear if no input controls are available.

The input channels of the audio device being used are assigned to recording Audio Tracks in order of appearance. I.e., with a stereo device and two mono tracks the first (upper) track will record the left channel, and the second (lower) track will record the right channel.

Activating the Rec Button will activate the Level Meter as well. You can now set the recording level using the Audio Input Control. If you have a mic preamp or a hardware mixer it's more convenient to use this to set the recording level (set the soundcard's level at its maximum value). The recording level is OK if the meter reaches the yellow section during signal peaks.

In record mode the level meters read 0.1% above the actual recording level in order to make it possible for the first red LED to light when reaching the clipping level (otherwise no red LED would ever light as the Audio In Device cannot output data above its clipping level).

Note: driving the recording level meters into the red section is definitely a bad thing in digital audio.

When recording on a track already containing data, all data after the point where recording starts will be deleted. When the Transport is stopped the file is saved automatically.

Note: it is not possible to undo audio recording!