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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
Recording modes with cycle off
There are three different modes for recording when the
cycle is turned off. This is called linear recording. The
three modes are:
• Normal
• Merge
• Replace
When recording audio, “Normal” and “Merge” are the
same. Selecting either of these will allow you to record
over the top of another audio event and it will appear as an
overlap. You can then select between the overlapping
events and determine which one will play. This is dis-
cussed in the section “Cycle recording” on page 29.
“Replace” mode when used will not overlap the audio if
there is already some on the track. It will split or cut the
audio where the recording takes place replacing what was
there previously. Keep in mind though that the audio being
replaced is not permanently deleted. It is only cut or
trimmed away allowing you to recover it later.
Cycle recording
You can record audio while “cycle” is on.
So far we’ve shown you how to add tracks, record and
playback. Now we are going to add an electric guitar to
our bass guitar using cycle recording. Recording with cy-
cle on allows us to make multiple passes of our recording
and then pick the best take.
If you haven’t reviewed the previous sections in this tuto-
rial, please do as we are going to move a little faster now.
Recording electric guitar
1. Let’s add another “Mono” audio track.
2. You can see now that we have a track called “Audio
01” and “Audio 02”. Up to now we haven’t been con-
cerned about naming the tracks but let’s do this now.
3. Double-click on “Audio 01” and re-name it “Bass”.
4. Double-click on “Audio 02” and re-name it “Elec Gui-
tar”. That looks a lot better now.
• It’s always good to name your tracks before you start to
record. This way the audio event will take the name of the
track. Since “Audio 01” was the name of our first track the
audio event is named “Audio 01_01”. The suffix “_01” be-
ing the first event recorded on the “Audio 01” track. We’ll
show you how to re-name your audio files in the chapter
“Tutorial 2: Editing Audio” on page 31.
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Load the project called “Cycle Recording” found in
the “Tutorial 1” folder.