M-AUDIO Delta TDIF - Manual (Page 49)

19. Back in your music program, set the ‘source’ or ‘input port’ to "Left
PCM In SP/ANA Delta-TDIF" on track three, and "Right PCM In
SP/ANA Delta-TDIF" on track four. Arm the tracks for recording.
Track three is now set up to record the guitar, and track four the
microphone. Usually at this point you would want to return to the
Delta Control Panel monitor mixer to set up levels. However, because
you will be recording the same instruments that you did on the first
two tracks, you probably won’t need to adjust input or monitoring
levels. Again, these instruments are being monitored from the
Monitor Mixer “H/W Ins 1/2.”
20. Press record on your software’s transport bar. Record a take of your
new guitar and vocal tracks. Because you have set up the first two
tracks to play back through the monitor mixer (WavOut SP/ANA),
you should hear those original tracks along with the ones that you are
now recording.
21. When you are done playing, stop the recording software and rewind
the take. Before playing back what you’ve recorded, you will need to
assign the newly recorded tracks to output devices on the Delta TDIF.
You could have all four recorded tracks playing to the same software
outputs, namely the SP/ANA output, but you can also choose other
outputs like H/W Out 1/2. We’re sending them to the Monitor Mixer,
so doing this will give us a little more control over our playback levels.
In your software, set the output ports of tracks three and four to
"WavOut 1/2 Delta-TDIF." Pan track three all of the way to the left
(hard left), and pan track four hard right. Now track three (guitar)
will be sent to the Delta software output 1, and track four (mic) to
Delta software output 2.
22. Press play on your software’s transport bar. Understand now that the
four recorded tracks from the software are being sent to WavOut
SP/ANA (left and right), WavOut 1, and WavOut 2 simultaneously.
Therefore they are all being input to the monitor mixer and their
playback levels can be controlled at the corresponding channels of the
monitor mixer. Open the Monitor Mixer page of the Delta Control
Panel and adjust the levels of the four channels according to your
taste. You may also experiment with the Mute and Solo controls while
listening to the playback. Note also that the mixer continues to
monitor the guitar and mic at analog inputs 1 & 2 (H/W In 1/2).
At this point, you should be able to see how this multi-tracking session is
developing. As we add more tracks within our music software, we set
them to the next pair of Delta software outputs (1/2, then 3/4…), and
bring up the faders of those software inputs in the monitor mixer
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