ATTN: Dj's and Acid Pro users

I'm trying to multi-track record in Acid Pro, and am running into problems when recording on another track. Say I record a beat on track one, and then go on track two to do cuts. Well the beat that is on track one gets recorded on track two while I'm recording the cuts. When all I want is for the cuts to be on track two, and the beat on track one. I know there has to be a way around this, or some setting that I haven't figured out yet. Thanks in advance....

when you push the record-button, you get some options.. you have to choose in what way you would like to record there.. now, you have it set to record everything that goes out, and everythingthat comes in to the sounddevice, but what you want to do is just record what comes in...

thanks, I'll give that a try...

What is your setup. It sounds like your soundcard device manager is set to record from one source, the beat. What you want to do is set it up so that the MPC is plugged into the aux input and the turntables are plugged into the MIC input, this is assuming you are using a regular computer soundcard and Windows OS. Click on the speaker icon in the lower right hand corner twice. This will open up your soundcard device manager. Go to "options" then "properties" and then select recording. At that point just select your source. Go back into ACID and have fun...Oh yeah remember the headphones.

Yah, I just put this comp together, so I'm using the soundcard attatched to the motherboard. I fixed the problem though. It was pretty weird. This motherboard uses some other software other than the traditional windows sound control panel, and it has effects that can be on all the time...so the newer problem that I was having was that I had a ton of reverb even when not in Acid Pro. So I just turned that off. I'll probably be back with more questions, since tonight I just did a one take of a mix instead of trying to multi-track it. Anyone have suggestions for an affordable but good sound card?? Thanks in advance.

dj_evs wrote:Yah, I just put this comp together, so I'm using the soundcard attatched to the motherboard. I fixed the problem though. It was pretty weird. This motherboard uses some other software other than the traditional windows sound control panel, and it has effects that can be on all the time...so the newer problem that I was having was that I had a ton of reverb even when not in Acid Pro. So I just turned that off. I'll probably be back with more questions, since tonight I just did a one take of a mix instead of trying to multi-track it. Anyone have suggestions for an affordable but good sound card?? Thanks in advance.

all built-on-motherboard sound chips will have their own drivers. the most common are crappy Via chips.

as for sound cards... if you go for new cards salesman will try to get you to buy expensive firewire or usb units

thing is you can pick up excellent Delta44 or Delta66 cards very cheap now. they are 24bit/96k so they are still rather future-proof, and have 4 inputs and outputs.

youre original problem was due to monitoring options and is program and hardware specific. good to see you got up on that.