M-AUDIO DELTA 66 - Manual (Page 32)

16. Press record on your software’s transport bar. Record a take of your guitar and
vocals. Understand that while recording, you are monitoring the Delta inputs
by way of the Monitor Mixer settings for H/W In 1/2, and according to the
selection of ‘Monitor Mixer’ within the Patchbay/Router page. At the same
time, your software is recording from H/W In 1/2 but at the levels that were set
up with the pre-amp.
17. 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 recorded
tracks to output devices on the Delta 66.
Note: For efficiency’s sake, this step could have taken place
while you were setting up the recording track assignments.
However, since this step only affects playback and does not
affect the recording setup in any way, we’ve placed it here to
lessen confusion.
Assign software track one to output device “WavOut 1/2 Delta-66” and pan the track
(within your software) all the way to the left (hard left). Then assign track two to
output device “WavOut 1/2 Delta-66” and pan the track all the way to the right (hard
right). Now, when you start playback, track one (guitar) will be sent to the Delta
software (WavOut) output 1, and track two (mic) to the Delta software (WavOut)
output 2. These two software outputs are inputs to the monitor mixer, therefore the
recorded guitar and mic channels will be sent to the monitor mixer, levels will be
modified by the mixer and the output of the mixer will be heard at analog outputs 1
& 2.
18. Start playback from your software’s transport bar. Open the Delta Control Panel
and go to the Monitor Mixer page. Observe the meters at “WavOut 1/2” – these
are the playback levels of your guitar and mic. Adjust the faders and mute
controls so that you may hear the guitar and mic at the appropriate levels and
mix. These are the levels at which you may monitor the pre-recorded tracks
while you overdub (record other tracks while listening to the first) additional
parts.
Let’s assume that you like this take, and wish to overdub an additional guitar and a
harmony vocal. We can still use hardware inputs 1 & 2 of the Delta. We’re set up
to do so and there’s no reason to change these inputs. Let’s set ourselves up to
overdub these next two tracks. We will record the next two tracks of material to
tracks 3 & 4 of the software:
19. Back in your music program, set the ‘source’ or ‘input port’ to “Left PCM In 1/2
Delta-66” on track three, and “Right PCM In 1/2 Delta-66” 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
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