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I have an 8 channel Alesis MultiMix8 installed as my soundcard. How do I record multiple audio tracks and one MIDI track at the same time? Thanks
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Welcome to the forum, Actioneer
What setup do you have? What is your computer situation? What are you using for input?
We need more info to be able to help you
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Options - preferences- audio tab - drivers
select the inputs you want to use for audio by highlighting them
check the box that says 'record audio too if track is midi'
options - midi devices to select midi input device
highlight a midi track and record it all.
When RB asks if you want to keep audio too, say yes
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This is something I'd like to see change. I'd like to be able to right click on a track and assign the input device.
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This is something I'd like to see change. I'd like to be able to right click on a track and assign the input device.
That's what I do, in Tracks View, when using my 1616M multiple input soundcard.
I have to have all available inputs highlighted in Prefs before I can do that, though.
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That's just for the outputs. When I right click the choices I have available are outputs not inputs. Look again Mac
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I don't have to look again, but it may be the difference in type of soundcards or drivers here, that's what I'm thinking. Or perhaps it is because of the E-MU Patchmix software, not a driver, but a virtual digital mixing console. With proper setup and routing inside the Patchmix applet, my inputs do indeed appear in tracks view.
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Well I don't show any inputs in tracks view nor does the manual. I'm like Thomas "show me"
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If you want to doubt me, it does not bother me in the slightest.
Very well could be that I'm remembering it in the wrong place.
I ain't settin' all that stuff up right now just to show you a screenshot.
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I'm glad you don't take offense as none was meant. I just think you're remembering it incorrectly. RB doesn't show inputs except in the Prefs/audio/drivers
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That's where I get bogged down. I have all 8 inputs showing (and highlighted) in the preferences. However, I can't find how to select the inputs for a given recording track.
My setup is for ASIO with the latest drivers and firmware updates from Alesis. Everything seems to work fine, but I don't see how to select a given input for a given recording track.
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My setup is as follows:
Sound Card = Alesis MultiMix8 (8 input channels, 2 output channels), Drivers and Firmware updated 25OCT09
Operating System = Windows Vista SP2
Computer = Toshiba, Intel dual processor, 32 bit, 1.6 GHz
Memory = 2 Gb
Software = RealBand 2008(4)
At Preferences/Audio/Drivers I find all 8 inputs (+2 firewire), and 2 outputs.
How do I select a specific input to record on a specific track? I want to record multiple tracks at the same time.
The hardware seems to work OK, but I can't figure out how to select a specific input for a specific track.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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By-The-Way my software is actually RB 2008.5(4)
Sorry for the error,
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Please see page 15 of the RealBand .pdf manual, located in your RB folder: Audio Drivers Tutorial
Maybe that will help you figure this out.
Once Inputs are highlighted in the Prefs, Audio section, you can control which input you want to go to the first armed track, second, etc. by changing the Input Order in that window as outlined in the tutorial.
Then you just select the first track and it will accept input from that first highlighted input, second track armed will accept from second input, etc.
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OK, I think I see how it works. Each armed track will pick up an input port from those highlighted in the Preferences/Audio/Drivers dialog window, and the order of the input ports matters. The first armed track will pick up the input from the first highlighted driver in the list, the second armed track will pick up the input from the second highlighted driver in the list, etc.
I will give it a try tomorrow evening.
I must say that this approach is not the most intuitive, and is not well explained in the manual either, at least not for the input porting. I would like to see the input port as a selectable by right clicking on the track window. Just a thought for future upgrades.
Thanks for your help.
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This is something I'd like to see change. I'd like to be able to right click on a track and assign the input device.
It's not intuitive at all and makes you have to remember who's first, second etc. That's why I'd like this to change.
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It's not intuitive at all and makes you have to remember who's first, second etc.
No no, its -
Who's on first, Whats on second and ..(pauses)
Make your sound your own!
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This is something I'd like to see change. I'd like to be able to right click on a track and assign the input device.
It's not intuitive at all and makes you have to remember who's first, second etc. That's why I'd like this to change.
I don't know, I don't see this as any big thing. That's what the track name window is for. Don't you know what you have plugged into your interface? Just put your input 1 on track 1 and go from there like Eddie's vocals track 1, John's guitar track 2, Gary's sax track 3 etc. Just name the tracks as you go, that's it. That's all they do at a real studio with the masking tape on the console.
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Think about this.
You have 8 inputs available to you. Your going to record your drum kit first. You have a mixer with 8 direct outs going to the 8 inputs on your sound card. You have the inputs in PREFS all set from 1-8. Kick drum is channel 8 in your mixer and goes to input 8 of the sound card. You highlite the first 8 tracks and record. Perfect. Kick drum is on track 8. Now in listening you realize the kick is not quite right so you want to rerecord the kick. If you highlite track 8 now to record it's not going to record from input 8 it's going to record from input 1 which ain't the kick.You'd have to go back into PREFS and move input 8 up to the top.
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II just arm 8 new tracks and make another pass. Edit later.
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