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Tutorial 3—Recording Digital Audio
4. Click Play .
5. Watch the track’s meter. If the level is not what you want, record your
track again.
Next Step: Recording Another Take.
Recording Another Take
If you'd like to delete your performance and try again, do the following:
1. Choose Edit-Undo Recording to undo your recording, or press Ctrl+Z
(Undo).
2. If necessary, click Rewind or press w.
3. Make sure the track is still armed for recording.
4. Click Record .
5. When you finish recording, click the Stop button , or press the
Spacebar.
Alternatively, you could record your next attempt on a new track, or in the
same track. If you enable a track’s Track Layers button , you can display
alternate takes in different “lanes” in a single track. To avoid erasing each
take, enable Sound on Sound (Blend) mode in the Record Options dialog
(Transport-Record Options command), and make sure that Create New
Layers On Overlap is enabled in the same dialog.
Next Step: Input Monitoring.
Input Monitoring
SONAR has a feature called input monitoring, which allows you to hear
any instrument that is plugged into your sound card whether you are
currently recording the instrument or not. You can hear your instrument,
including any plug-in effects, whenever input monitoring is enabled and the
Audio Engine button in the Transport toolbar is depressed. You can
enable or disable input monitoring on an individual track by clicking the
track’s Input Echo button , and you can enable or disable input
monitoring on all tracks at once by clicking the Input Echo button that’s on
the Playback State toolbar (to display, use the Views-Toolbars-Playback
State command).
Caution: If you have any kind of a loop in your mixer setup that causes the
output of your sound card to be fed back into the input, you can get
feedback. Input monitoring can make it very intense because both the direct