Technical information

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To start, plug your instrument or microphone into the computer’s sound card. The Line Out from electronic
instruments or amplifiers can be plugged directly into the Line In jack. To record your voice, or an acoustic
instrument such as a flute, plug a microphone into the Mic jack.
If you have a Sound Blaster card, this button is used to select the Microphone input and/or Line In input
to record digital audio. The Windows mixer Record settings can also be used.
Open the Record Audio dialog box with the [R. Aud] button. This dialog box lets you set the parameters
for the recording session.
You can adjust recording levels from this dialog with the [Set Recording Properties] button.
Once you have set the recording properties and tested the recording input levels, recording is easy. Simply tell
Band-in-a-Box the place in the song where you want to start recording, whether or not you want to record the MIDI
data along with your acoustic instrument, and press [Record]. If you choose to start recording from the beginning of
the song, Band-in-a-Box will start with a lead-in count before the music starts playing. If you are starting from
elsewhere in the song recording starts instantly.
Press the Esc key or click on [Stop] to stop recording. Band-in-a-Box will prompt you to keep the take or take
again.
When you get a take you like, press the [OK – Keep Take] button to save your recording. Use the Options to record
one Chorus and then copy it to the whole song, to overdub underlying audio on the track, and to retain audio past the
new take just recorded (punch out).