i'm recording drums with cakewalk..i have a question regarding it

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i've got an 8 channel mix board..and an maudio fast track interface..i've got them connect with one quarter inch cord..from the mono send to the guitar input on the interface then the interface connect to my computer through a USB...anyway im trying to record drums with cakewalk..i've got a mic on the snare...one on the kick drum and two overheads panned left and right. is there anyway to record it at the same time but put like the two overheads on one track and the snare/kick on another track?
 
If you are sending one mono signal to Cakewalk, you will be recording all the audio on one track. No way around it.

I can't even think of a way to go into Cakewalk and edit the audio to seperate tracks (you can do that with MIDI notes, but I don't think you can do it with audio.
 
Couldn't you just set up four tracks to record four different inputs on a soundcard (if you have the right kind of soundcard)?
 
thomas19,

By edit audio I am referencing the ability to go into a screen that displays the audio wave forms to try to cut and past to seperate tracks. However, if all the audio comes in on one track the wave form would contain the combined audio and it would be impossible to isolate a snare hit from a hi-hat, etc.

I would simply either reord mono or stereo (if the M-Audio gives you two channels of A/D) and simply use the mixer (and palying technique) to get the best drum mix you can.

Candidly, if you want to record drums, you really need an A/D converter with at least 4 in/outs (I think 8 in/outs would be better) .

rapidbyape

If the A/D converter has four inputs (and the mixer has four buss outputs), then yes, your suggestion would work. However the original question indicated there is one 1/4' cable sending a mono signal from the mixer to the interface.
 
Does anybody here know of a program that will allow you to record to separate tracks? As far as I've tryed with Cakewalk will only get me two, one from left and one from right. That's on Cakewalk Music Creator.
 
I record into Cakewalk Pro9 through a Layla interface.

The Layla gives me 8 ins. Cakewalk Pro9 allows me to assign seperate inputs to each recorded track - so I can record whatever signal is coming into Layla channel one to say Cakewalk track 1 and Layla channel two to Cakewalk track 3, etc. etc.

So with 8 D/A ins (from Layla) I can record 8 tracks into Cakewalk at the same time. I don't know what features Cakewalk Music Creator does or does not have. However, if your D/A interface only has 2 ins, then you will be limited to recording two tracks at a time, regardless of what Cakewalk can or can't do.
 
No, I have the layla 24, but music creator sucks. Thanks, I'll have to try out that program.
 
juke,

Cakewalk Pro9 is no longer in production - rather than come out with Cakewalk Pro10 they came out with Sonar. So if you want to stay in a Cakewalk format you would likely have to get Sonar.

Naturally you can change formats to something like Pro Tools. I still use Cakewalk mainly because I have used Cakewalk since version 1 and I really don't want to go through the learning curve that a format change would require.
 
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