When I record my vocals the beat is being recorded too. Why is this?

SlimCity wrote on 3/9/2014, 12:27 AM

I recently rebuilt my home studio, I am still using Magix Music Maker 16 Premium. Also I have a American Audio Versaport audio interface and also attached to a EuroRack UB802 mixer. Ive run all my wiring and I can hear both microphone and computer plaing instrumental. But when I record it records my vocals but it also records the instrumental over again. Does anyone know why this is happening?

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nihon94 wrote on 3/9/2014, 4:49 AM

You have to open Audio recording I think if you click "R" it should open the window, then un check the "PLAYBACK WHILE RECORDING".

If I am not wrong it should solve your problem refer screen shot from MMM 16 Premium.

nihon94

Additional: If you already got your instruments on the track mute them and record your vocals. I hope you knew Magix Music Maker is not DAW we got to record one track at a time.

SlimCity wrote on 3/9/2014, 12:53 PM

When I unclick "Playback while recording" it no longer records. It only records static. Im wondering if I have my wiring ran wrong.I have my mixer ran through my audion interface and that ran into my computer.How should I go about getting my instrumental to play through headphones along with vocals, without the instrumental being recorded?

SlimCity wrote on 3/9/2014, 1:01 PM

Sorry you were rightI had my audio device setup worng. Thanks for the help

SlimCity wrote on 3/9/2014, 1:10 PM

Sorry once again but now when I unclick Playback While recording I can no longer hear my instrumental but my vocal are being recorded with no instruments.

browj2 wrote on 3/9/2014, 11:04 PM

Hi,

See the last sentence in the answer from Nihan94 - you can only record one track at a time.

You first have to record the instruments - one at a time. Then you can record your voice to a separate track. My understanding is that you are using an external mixer, with USB for the mic input. Is this correct?

If so, you have to monitor through the mixer/audio interface what comes back from the USB and what is going to the computer (Direct).

If not, then you have a different problem.

I use an M-Audio M-Track two-channel USB auidio/midi interface to connect to the computer. The driver is Asio. I monitor through the M-Track monitor, not the computer. When I record, there is a mix - USB and Direct, that I monitor through headphones connected to the M-Track. When I record (to a separate track) anything that is played while recording (from the computer on other tracks) comes back through my headphones. If I used a mixer, it would be upstream of the interface and connected to the line in on the mixer. Monitoring would still be done through the M-Track interface.

That said, I can record voice and something else, usually a guitar, simultaneously using the mixer because there are 2 ports, one for each channel of one track. But, I, or the musicians, can monitor the sound on the other tracks (from MMM on the computer) through the headphones. The mic can be recorded to one channel only, if the recording parameter is set to stereo. Alternatively, setting the record parameter to mono records the mic coming from one channel onto 2 channels in MMM.

I suggest that you play around with the various parameters and setups, noting what you did and what was the outcome, until you find the combinations that work for you.

Hope this helps a bit.