Multiple Voice Tracks

[J-Rod]

I record as podcast. I have a 4 channel mixer. I need to know how to record multiple voice tracks. Can this be done with Audacity?

[kozikowski]

I asked that very thing a while ago. Audacity will cheerfully record up to 16 tracks. The trick is get the tracks inside the computer.

This is the thread...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 807#p92800

Koz

[J-Rod]

I can get multiple tracks. That's no problem. But I guess the question is how do I assign the tracks to different channels of my mixer?

[steve]

Do you have a multi-channel sound card? If so, what sort?

[J-Rod]

I would guess that i do. It's a brand new Dell laptop. On Live 7 Lite, that came with my M-Audio mixer that I just got, can have each channel hooked to it's own track. I just have to sellect "audio" and it finds the next open channel.

But I can't find any settings to tell Audacity that I want a track to use a channel from the mixer.

[steve]

Audacity currently only supports a maximum of 2 channels for playback (stereo), though you can export multi-channel audio files if you have some means of playing them.
What sort of M-Audio Mixer do you have (model number?) and how is it connected to the computer?

[J-Rod]

It's a Fast Track Ultra hooked with USB. I record voices in mono and lay sterio music beds underneith. But we have 3 hosts for the show and I need to have 3 channels from the mixer each using one audio track on Audacity.

[kozikowski]

I guess this won't be the first time.....

------------ M-Audio Help Forum --------------
Are you using the M-Audio ASIO driver?
In your recording softwareís audio preferences, make sure that you learn how to select the M-Audio ASIO driver rather than the MME, WDM, ASIO4ALL or Multimedia ASIO drivers.
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Audacity doesn't directly support ASIO driver software. If the unit won't work with the Windows drivers, then there aren't a lot of options.

Multiple simultaneous channel support is a sore point.

Koz

[steve]

I can get multiple tracks. That's no problem.

I'm a bit confused here. Are you saying that you CAN record multiple tracks simultaneously?

[J-Rod]

I can't get one mic to record on track one, while a second mic records on track two and a third mic records on track three.