Apr 14, 2021 Why does audacity (3.0), while recording automatically make a stereo file. When recording in multitrack mode (4 monotracks), audacitiy is automatically making each track into a stereo track. Audacity is a free, open-source, and cross-platform multi-track recording and editing application was built by Roger Dannenberg and Dominic Mazzoni at Carnie Mellon university.
After recording, multi-channel files can be exported using current Audacity, by choosing the appropriate mixdown option in Preferences (Import/Export tab). Playback support in Audacity is currently limited to stereo (2 channels), so all multi-channel recordings will be sent to your sound device in stereo.
Multi-track recording with Audacity
Posted Oct 7, 2006 0:05 UTC (Sat) by Hawke (guest, #6978)
Multitrack Recording In Audacity
Parent article: Multi-track recording with Audacity
The sample representation was changed to 16 bit integer mode and the audio i/o setting was changed to 2 channel (Stereo).
The inability to record mono tracks is an obvious deficiency...
So the author found the setting used to record mono tracks and then complained that it was missing? WTF? In addition, you can split stereo tracks into two mono tracks or mix two mono tracks into one ('Quick mix').
The 'Play other tracks while recording new one' setting was enabled, this is the critical feature that allows 'sound-on-sound' recording.
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? Furthermore, this seems to be the cause of the later dropouts and latency problems the author complains of. In fact, I find it difficult to get audacity to not play back the other audio tracks while recording the new one, regardless of the setting in preferences. (On further testing it seems as if the software initializes to 'play other tracks while recording new one' but leaves the checkbox off; so checking and unchecking this preference will disable the feature.
Audacity Multi Track
Multitrack Recording In Audacity
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