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Abcd wrote on 8/10/2009, 7:06 AM
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.
NoTurning wrote on 8/10/2009, 7:54 PM
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
Procyon wrote on 8/11/2009, 12:00 AM
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....)
XXMerosticXX wrote on 8/11/2009, 8:14 AM
Could you please provide us some information about your soundcard / drivers? I bet that you don't work with ASIO....
Procyon wrote on 8/11/2009, 10:48 AM
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.
NoTurning wrote on 8/11/2009, 7:17 PM
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