MULTI CHANNEL recording question.

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Hello,

I’ve knocked out a couple of albums with Ntrack version 4, and have been very happy with it.

I have just purchased a TASCAM US-1641 USB interface to enable me to record an entire drumkit onto seperate tracks in Ntrack. It comes bundled with CUBASE but I really don’t want to use that as I love N-track.

My problem is this: I’ve managed to select 8 tracks to record at once and this works fine. However if I want to stop recording and start again, ntrack adds another 8 tracks underneath. This becomes a complete mess very quickly. I cannot see how I stop this happening.

Any ideas?

Thankyou.

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What do you want to happen with the previous tracks? If you simply want them gone, Ctl-Z will do it. Otherwise, welcome to a limitation of N. You cannot have multiple takes in the same tracks as you can with other DAWs. (See extensive discussion in other threads talking about why takes and lanes are the bomb and N should have them.)

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You cannot have multiple takes in the same tracks as you can with other DAWs. (See extensive discussion in other threads talking about why takes and lanes are the bomb and N should have them.)
The latest beta build includes lanes - I have not tested it though.
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Well what do you know? It looks like this was added two days ago. Go try it out.

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Not much.

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Just did an alternate take/Lane test. Worked great. It doesn’t show the lanes it gives you a sideclick to view which take you want to see in the track view. Not bad! :agree:

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Are we saying that if I upgrade to the latest version my problem is solved?

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I can’t say that until I run some more tests. I can say it records a ‘take’ in the same track each time I click record then stop and hit record again.

The beta is free to try - Give it a test drive!
Ver 6.0.2 Beta Download

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It always did that with individual tracks recorded one at a time - not wanting to
sound stupid here - I mean you could always record a guitar solo on a track, and then another a minute or so later…surely it’s the same principle? If a track is armed to record and you press the record button, then it records on that track. I find it hard to believe that this is a challenge for a programmer, but then I’m not a programmer.

I’m going to have to install cubase to see if that works first.