What I meant was, i load the instrumental at the arranger..or whatever its called, and try to records the vocals WITH playback ON..but the playback aint recorded, how do I record my vocals ALONG WITH the instrumental? question clear enough?
Just a question: why do you want to record the instrumental as well? If you have the instreumental as a separate track in the arranger it would be the best to leave it like that.
Are you playing the instrumental from a different player? There is a way to record but you're MUCH better dragging the instrumental into Music Maker and "merging" the two that way. You also get the benefit of controlling the levels individually too.
Justin
It sounds to me like he's trying to record to two tracks (vocals and instrument) AT THE SAME TIME. I'm not sure that's possible, but I haven't looked into it.
It would help if he explained in more detail what he is trying to do and how he is going about it. (Instruments, interface/sound card, etc....)
Clear? Not at all. What you are saying makes no sense.
If you already have an instrument track in the arranger, all you need to do is record the new, vocal track while the instrument track is playing. There is no reason to "re-record" the instrument track while you are recording the vocals.
If you want to combine the instrument and vocal tracks (although, I don't know why you would) you can export them together as a WAV (or other format) file and then import them back into your project.
Ah-ha!
Seems like perhaps you want the instrumental track to play while you're recording? If so this is called monitoring and that would explain the confusion.
If this is what you want; simply check the "Playback While Recording" box in the Record dialog window that opens when you click record.
You can also click the REC button in the icon area of your track but that is not the best solution as it will re-record that as well.
Justin