Billfer wrote: In Adobe Audition it seems I cannot record unless my input and output are my mic, which confuses me too ( im a begginer), The only way I can record is if my mic is my input and out put so I can't hear anything I record or any music I put on there. I can hear the music if I switch my output to my headphones but then I can't record.. I am just so confused I just want to be able to listen to the music through my headphones and record with my mic but I can't record unless my output is my mic. One thing I read was to try with multitrack, but when I open a multitrack session the recording symbol fades and I cannot click it to record. Well, if you record in Waveform view, then yes you are likely to run into problems, because there's only one track available, so there won't be anything to listen to anyway; if you want to record the way you want to, you have to record in Multitrack - no choice. The basic idea is that if your sound devices are set up correctly, you can send a backing track to the output, and set the input to the track you want to record to as the microphone. When you've got this set correctly you can arm this track for recording, and when you start playback of your backing track, the armed one will automatically start recording at the same point - so you don't have to do the whole track in one go if you don't want to - it will stop recording when you stop the playback. Your real issue with this will be monitoring your singing. Because of latency, ideally you will monitor yourself directly through your sound device, which should let you mix this with the playback signal. But with a lot of internal sound devices this doesn't work properly, generally because of Microsoft and their strange ideas of what people might actually want to do with their computers. So almost invariably it works better with external sound devices rather than the onboard sound. Oh, and there are no limitations placed on the trial version of CC. And CC is professional software, unlike Audacity, and is way better, simply because it's more stable, apart from any other considerations.
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