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Tutorial 3—Recording Digital Audio
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3. Click OK.
For more information about audio driver bit depth, see the online help topic
“Bit Depths for Playback.”
To set the record bit depth:
1. Use the Options-Global command to open the Global Options dialog
box.
2. On the Audio Data tab, find the Record Bit Depth field and select one of
the options.
3. Click OK.
Next Step: Open a New Project.
Open a New Project
Let’s open a new project for this tutorial.
1. Select File-New from the menu.
2. In the New Project File dialog box, enter Tutorial3 in the Name field.
3. Select the Normal template from the template list and click OK.
Note: In the New Project File dialog you can also confirm where your
project and project audio will be stored when you save a new project. Do so
by adjusting the paths in the Location and Audio Path fields. For the
purpose of these tutorials, however, the default locations should be
acceptable.
Next Step: Setting Up an Audio Track.
Setting Up an Audio Track
Let’s set up a track for digital audio:
1. Insert a new track by doing the following: in the Track pane, right-click
below the last track, or wherever you want to insert a track, and choose
Insert Audio Track from the popup menu.
SONAR inserts a new audio track.
2. In the track’s Output field, click the dropdown arrow and select an audio
output from the menu.
3. In the track’s Input field, choose an audio input. Usually you select the
left channel of one of your sound card’s inputs to record a mono track,
or the stereo input to record a stereo track.