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Input Echo button that’s on the Playback State toolbar (to display, use the View-
Toolbars-Playback State command).
Caution: If you have any kind of a loop in your mixer setup that causes the output
of your sound card to be fed back into the input, you can get feedback, and input
monitoring can make it very intense because both the direct signal and the
processed signal are coming out of your sound card. Turn your speakers off
whenever you enable input monitoring, and then try turning them up very
gradually to try it out. If you hear feedback, click the Audio Engine button
in the Transport toolbar to turn input monitoring off.
For more information on Input Monitoring, see “Input Monitoring” on page 180.
Loop and Punch-In Recording
Loop and Punch-in work the same for digital audio recording as they did for MIDI
recording. For more information, refer to the relevant sections preceding, or to
“Loop Recording” on page 184 or “Punch Recording” on page 185.
Recording Multiple Channels
If you can gather the entire band around your computer, and if you have the proper
equipment, you can record a full multiple-instrument performance all at once. If
you have several MIDI instruments, you can route their input into your sound card
through a MIDI merger—data that arrives on different MIDI channels can be
routed to different tracks (see “Recording Specific Ports and Channels” on page
192). Likewise, a typical sound card can record audio on both right and left
channels—each can be recorded on a different track by choosing the right channel
as an input for one track, and the left channel as an input for another. Multiple
sound cards and multi-I/O sound cards can expand the number of possible inputs.
For more information, see “System Configuration” on page 628.
That completes the audio recording tutorial. Now you’ve learned the basics of
playing and recording material for your projects. In the following tutorials you'll
learn about basic editing techniques for both MIDI and audio.
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