This behavior is called “auto-monitoring“ and you can change it to fit your needs (see ‘Monitoring’). It doesn’t matter if you click a track’s Arm button in the Session View or in the Arrangement View, since the two share the same set of tracks.īy default, armed tracks are monitored, meaning that their input is passed through their device chain and to the output, so that you can listen to what is being recorded. To select a track for recording, click on its Arm button. Track Arm Buttons in the Arrangement (Left) and Session (Right) Mixers. The Routing chapter (see ‘Routing and I/O’) describes these options in detail. The computer keyboard can be activated as a pseudo-MIDI input device (see ‘Playing MIDI With the Computer Keyboard’), allowing you to record MIDI even if no MIDI controller hardware is currently available.įor every track, you can choose an input source other than the default: any mono or stereo external input, a specific MIDI channel from a specific MIDI-in device or a signal coming from another track. MIDI tracks default to recording all MIDI that is coming in through the active external input devices (see ‘The MIDI Ports List in the Preferences’). The Track In/Out Section in the Arrangement (Left) and Session View (Right).Īudio tracks default to recording a mono signal from external input 1 or 2. (In the Arrangement View, unfold and resize the track in order to completely see the In/Out section.) For more information, please refer to Capturing MIDI (see ‘Capturing MIDI’).Ī track will record whatever input source is shown in its In/Out section, which appears when the View menu’s In/Out option is checked. This allows for more freedom and flexibility when you want to improvise or experiment. On MIDI tracks, it is possible to “capture” played material after you’ve played it, without the need to press the Record button beforehand.

For these devices, you must therefore use either an audio interface with a preamp, or an external preamp. Also, keep in mind that devices such as microphones, guitars and turntables do not operate at line level, meaning that they will need to have their levels boosted before they can be recorded. For more on this, please see the built-in program lesson on setting up Audio Preferences.

Note that this is a different kind of recording than the capturing of Session clips into the Arrangement (see ‘Recording Sessions into the Arrangement’).įor successful audio recording, please make sure the audio preferences are set up properly. This chapter is about recording new clips from audio and MIDI input signals.

Picture of live audio signal path