ONYX FireWire Card

Studio Recording Tutorial

Preliminary Steps

Make sure all of the channels and mixer settings are set up correctly, and the Onyx FireWire port is connected to the computer. Also make sure the hard drive you want to record onto has plenty of free space for the entire session (and has been defragmented recently).

Recording one minute of audio on one track at 44.1 kHz/24-bit takes about 8 MB of hard drive space. Recording all 16 tracks for one hour takes about 7.6 GB of hard drive space.

Recording

1.Launch the Tracktion software on your PC or Mac. For more details about the Tracktion software, press F12 on your keyboard, or click the HELP button in the lower left corner of the Tracktion screen.

2.Click the NEW PROJECT button.

New Project

Help!

3.Navigate to the location where you want to save your new project, enter a name in the pop-up dialog box, then click Save. All of this project’s tracks, clips, and edits are saved here by Tracktion, and new audio is recorded in the folder.

4.“New edit #1” appears at the top of the item list. Do not be alarmed. An Edit is Tracktion’s way of keeping everything related to your songs together. See Tracktion’s Help for more information. You can rename the edit in the Proper- ties panel at the bottom of the screen.

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ONYX FireWire Card