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Tutorial 1: Recording audio
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.
This is described in the section “Adding a mono track” on page 25.
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 rename it “Bass”.
4. Double-click on “Audio 02” and rename 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 too will take this name.
Since “Audio 01” was the name of our first track the audio
event is named “Audio 01_01”. The suffix “_01” being the
first event recorded on the “Audio 01” track. We’ll show
you how to rename your audio files in the chapter “Tutorial
2: Editing audio” on page 31.
5. Make sure “Cycle” is activated, set the left locator to 2
and the right locator to 18.
This will loop or cycle between bars 2 and 18.
6. On the Transport panel, make sure “Mix (MIDI)” is se-
lected for the “Cycle Record Mode”.
This will allow us to record the electric guitar, and as each cycle repeats
a new take will be created. We will then choose the best take to keep as
our guitar line.
7. Activate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons on
the “Elec Guitar” track.
8. Click the “L” button on the Transport panel once.
This will make sure we start recording at the left locator.
9. Click the “Record” button on the Transport panel.
As you record the guitar, let the cycle repeat three times so we have
three different guitar takes.
10. Click “Stop” when you’re finished. We’ve just recorded
three different guitar takes. Now let’s figure out how to se-
lect the best sounding one.
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Load the project called “Cycle Recording” found in
the “Tutorial 1” folder.
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Load the tutorial called “Cycle Recording 2” found in
the “Tutorial 1” folder.
Cycle Record Mode