Multi-track recording with Audacity

Multi-track recording with Audacity

Am I missing something or does this defeat the purpose of multi-track recording? Why would you do "sound on sound" recording when you can record each sound as a separate track and then mix them together in software?

I read that to mean that it's a playback option to simplify the recording of each new (separate) track in synchronized fashion, not that it's doing live mixing+recording of "sound on sound." The "silent" alternative (depending how you play music) would tend to result in different tracks having different lengths, which would require significantly more processing to correct without screwing up the pitches (frequencies).

But that's just the opinion of a signal-processing theorist, not of a practicing musician. ;-)

Greg

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