Does Audacity need an "Arm" feature like some other DAWs

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Does Audacity need an “Arm” feature like some other DAWs

What does the arm track feature do on other DAW’s and Does Audacity need this feature?

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Do you think Audacity needs an “Arm” feature? If so, why?

Note that most DAWs also require that you create a new track (and then “arm” it) before you can record, whereas in Audacity you can just press the Record button and away it goes.

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Arming is useful if you have an extensive multi-input setup (eg guitar, voice, piano) which you sometimes want to record all of at the same time but sometimes only one at a time. I don’t think we’ll expose this kind of capability any time soon or as in-your-face as DAWs usually do (though there’s a simpler way to allow for voice + desktop audio recording, design-wise anyway)

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Thanks for those replies, it looks like Audacity does not need an Arm feature, and neither will I, as I will only be recording one instrument at a time.

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Please see this section of the Recording page in the Audacity Manual re “arming”:

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording.html#arm

Peter