Multi-channel Recording in Audacity

[steve]

@Gale Andrews

Note there is a comparable list on the Wiki “Multichannel Recording” page.

Excellent, I’d not spotted that page but I was hoping to use this topic as a “feeder” for such a page on the wiki.

@Gale Andrews

Just to be clear, this topic is about Windows and possibly Linux, is that so?
… I thought multi-channel recording in Audacity usually worked on Mac …

I don’t know. That’s an issue where we depend on user feedback. I’ll add a note to the OP asking for people to state their operating system version.

@Gale Andrews

There’s also an overlap with Recommended Sound Devices

I’m aware of that - and there’s an overlap with the Sound Card Reviews topic on the forum, but I think that multi-channel sound cards should be kept on a separate page (in both the wiki and the forum). Users will usually be looking for advice on stereo xor multichannel sound card.

I think a link on each of the wiki pages to the other would be useful.
I’ll add similar links to the two forum topics.

@Gale Andrews

the link in the above post to M-Audio FastTrack Ultra 8R (usb)
(Multitrack recording - direct to Audacity or external device ) doesn’t seem to have anything about FastTrack Ultra.

There’s a problem with how the forum makes links to posts - they don’t always work properly on multi-page topics.
On the second page of the topic liselorev said:

@liselorev

The device collection rejoices. A M-Audio FastTrack Ultra 8R (usb) device has joined the rank.
8 mic/line inputs. And the recording is swell.

The Edirol, only having 4 mic entrances (with mic pre-amp and phantom),… suggested a purchase of extra mic preamps to use the 12 other line-entrances for recording of mic signals. The price for these pre-amps was bigger than the price of the M-Audio 8-channel. Hence the choice.