Recording question

Absolutely! You can record as many separate tracks that your computer will handle. But, make sure your sound card is set up properly or the tracks will bleed into one another. Make sure that your soundcard is set to only record from whatever source you are recording into. For example, if you have your signal going into the "line in" port on your sound card, then you should have the sound card set to only record from the "line in" port.


For a stock soundcard, double click on the little speaker icon in the system tray at the bottom right of the screen. The "Volume Control" panel will pop up. Hit OPTIONS-->PROPERTIES, then select the RECORDING control button. Make sure all the boxes in the bottom part of the window have check marks in them, then hit OK.

Now you should see a box with a bunch of sliders in it. In our example, we have our instrument plugged into the "line in" port - so, make sure that the box below the "line in" slider is checked and that the master and line in sliders are all the way up. Now, you can close the box and your tracks shouldn't bleed into each other.

If you are using a SB card or an after-market card, you may have a different Recording Properties interface. Find that and make sure you have "What You Hear" or anything similkar to that turned off in the recording section. Only select whatever port you want to record from.

Sorry, I guess I solved my own problem. It turns out that my S/PDIF-Out option on asus's "sound effect" needs to be on digital only and not digital+analog. I don't even know what that is, but I fiddled around with the options and solved the problem.