Technical information

Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering
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Set the start point for the recording.
You can record from the Start of the song, or somewhere in the middle, by choosing a bar and chorus # to start
recording.
Also Record MIDI?
In most cases you will only be recording audio, so you should set this to “No MIDI recording.” But if you want to
record MIDI at the same time (in a situation where you were playing a MIDI piano at the same time as you are
singing for example), then you could set this setting to “Also Record MIDI to Melody” (assuming that you wanted
the MIDI to get recorded to the Melody track - use the Soloist setting if you want it recorded to the Soloist track).
If you have previously recorded audio on the track, and want to overdub (to add a harmony for example), then you
should select the Overdub underlying Audio. It is not essential to select it at this point, since you'll get another
chance at the end of the recording. Note that the audio track will not play during record, so you'd have to sing the
harmony without hearing the original audio part.
Press [Record].
Audio recording begins. If you've set the “Show VU Meter while recording” option, then the Recording VU Meter
will open up and display during recording so you can monitor the VU meters.
Press [Stop] or press the [Esc] key.
You will then see the “Keep Take?”
dialog.
If you are happy with your recording,
you should choose [OK -Keep Take] and
the audio will be added to the Audio
track.
You can listen to the results by pressing
[Play].
If you are then not happy with the results, you can choose Edit | Undo Keep Audio Take and you will be back to
where you were prior to the recording. You can also choose the option to [Take Again], which reopens the
Recording dialog.
Technical Details: The recorded take is recorded to a temporary wave file called TEMP_REC.WAV. This resides in the
\bb directory or the directory of the current song. Once you decide to keep the take, the TEMP_REC.WAV is merged with
the main wave file for the program, which is usually titled with the same name as the song (e.g. MySong.wav).
If you've recorded only 1 chorus of the song, you can choose the option to
copy that first chorus of audio to the whole song.
This will fill up the whole song with the audio by repeating it as many times as necessary. Then you'd just need to
record the ending of the song.
At the end of recording, you receive an option to overdub with the underlying
audio.
This means that both recordings will be merged together to form a new file, with both recordings preserved.
There is also an option to “Retain audio past last recorded.” This allows you to “punch out” and preserve the rest of
a previously recorded take.