If you have a multi-input device, then RealBand (and PowerTracks) will support it; you just have to select the input ports you want to use before recording.

From the RealBand Help file:

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Recording Tracks in Stereo or Mono

Each Input and Output port is a Stereo pair, with a left and right channel. For example, if you select 4 Input Ports and 4 Output Ports, then you would be actually getting 8 input and 8 output channels, since each audio port has both a left and right channel. In the Tracks window, you can select the output port for each track, and in the Mixer window you can use the pan setting for the track to control where the output gets sent (left or right channel for the port).

When recording to a stereo audio track, the track will contain both the left and right channels. If you’ve selected multiple input ports, RealBand will record to multiple stereo tracks and offer to insert stereo track(s) if necessary.

MONO tracks contain only 1 channel per track, but you could record mono tracks in pairs if you’ve set the “InputChannel for MONO Tracks” to L+R in the Options | Preferences | Audio settings.

When recording to MONO tracks, multiple ports are only utilized if the Input Channel for MONO tracks in the Options | Preferences | Audio settings is set to “L+R.” This will be set to “L+R” automatically if you select multiple input ports. The audio data will be recorded as 1 L+R pair per input port with all the data recorded on adjacent available tracks. Tracks will be inserted if necessary (same method as when recording L+R with a single port).

See the Options - Audio Preferences help topic for more information on stereo recording. Multi-port recording works the same as stereo recording, except there is more than one pair of stereo tracks being recorded by RealBand.

If the Record Channel is set to “Left” or “Right” only Input Port number 1 (the first input port in the list that was selected by you in the Audio Drivers dialog) will be recorded onto a MONO track.

Note: Port number 1 is used as a source of timing when syncing MIDI to digital audio. If you are attempting to use two different brands of sound cards together on one computer as two separate ports, there may be timing problems if the cards have different DMA buffer sizes, but it is possible you may not encounter any noticeable timing issues.

The multi-port feature is mainly meant for multi-port cards. Feel free to try multiple sound cards, but your results may vary.


I know RHARV is very familiar with the process and can provide more insight.

John

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