Click Track is silent when I try to record

[RussLA]

I'm using Windows XP and Audacity 1.2.6.

I'd like to use a click track, but when I activate Record, the click sound disappears. I assume it's because the click track is Output and what I'm recording is Input. Somehow I'm not able to do both at the same time.

I have my piano keyboard going into my mixer with the mixer output going into my sound card (Audigy 2ZS Platinum). I have the output from the sound card going into the mixer. When I play the click by itself, it's fine. And when I play my piano keyboard by itself, it's fine. But when I try to record, the click track has no sound (and doesn't register on the output level meter).

How can I record and hear the click track at the same time?

Russ

[kozikowski]

Edit > Preferences > Recording > Overdub (play old tracks while recording new ones).

That's how its done in Audacity 1.3.12.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity 1.2 is getting on in years and having more and more problems with modern computers.

You can have both Audacity versions on your machine but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2.

Koz

[RussLA]

Thanks, Koz. I knew it had to be something simple.

Russ