Recording In Capture - PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE 24.4.2 Owner's Manual

7 SOFTWARE — Universal Control, Capture and StudioLive Artist
7.3 Capture

7.3.6 Recording in Capture

Record Enabling an Audio Track
Monitoring Live Audio Input
Setting Input Levels
Activating Recording in Capture
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To record to an audio track, the track must be record-enabled, or armed. To
record-enable an audio track, click on the Record Enable button once. This
button, which sports a red dot, should turn entirely red in color when enabled,
and the track's corresponding meter in the meter bridge should begin to move
up and down if there is any live audio on that channel in the StudioLive mixer.
Click on the Arm All button at the top of the Track
Column to record-enable every track at once.
Once an audio track is record enabled, you are ready to record audio to that
track. Refer to the Activating Recording section for more on this topic.
All monitoring of live audio input should happen on the StudioLive mixer
itself as normal. There is no separate monitoring capability within Capture.
Setting the proper input levels is critical to making a good live mix and
recording. The basic idea is to set the input gain on your StudioLive
mixer as high as possible without overloading the input. Overloading
the input will cause clipping (a nasty type of distortion), which will ruin
the recording. This damage cannot be undone in software. There is a clip
indicator for each input on the StudioLive mixer for this purpose.
If an input channel is not clipping on your StudioLive mixer,
you can be sure that there it will not clip in Capture. Refer to the
StudioLive documentation for more information on this topic.
Once you have the desired tracks record-enabled, the next step is to record.
To activate recording, click on the Record button in the Transport. The Record
button will turn red, and the Play button will turn green in the Transport; the
Playback Cursor will start to scroll from left to right from its current position;
and a new Audio Event will be recorded to any record enabled track(s).
Recording will continue until you manually stop it by clicking on the
Stop button in the Transport, or press [Spacebar] on the keyboard.
Capture utilizes the Broadcast Wave file format for recording. This is
the only format utilized, as it is the most widely used format, and it
contains time stamps for when recordings start within a Song.
When recorded Broadcast Wave audio files get bigger than four gigabytes in
size, the RF64 file format is automatically used as the standard file format.
The recommended file system for the recording partition on your
computer is NTFS on Windows and HFS+ on Mac OS X.
After recording, the next step in production is usually editing. In the editing
process, recorded events are manipulated in many ways to achieve a desired sound.
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