Several years ago I managed to produce some multi-track midi files
using qTractor.
Now I want to do something fairly simple using audio tracks. Just to
get myself back into using qTractor after a very long break, and to
find out how to do what I want, I decided to try something very simple
to start with. I want to record a guide track using my voice, and then
record 3 other voice tracks (separately), listening to the guide track
through an earpiece. Then I shall delete the guide track and
experiment with altering the pan settings on two of the other 3 tracks
to see if I can get a good stereo effect. I'm using an HP laptop and
its internal microphone, with an earpiece plugged into the computer's
headphone socket; no sound comes from the computer's speakers, of
course.
Recording the guide track is no problem. To record the second track, I
set it up as an unmonitored audio track and set the guide track to
solo. I then record the new track whilst listening to the guide track
through the earpiece.
But after recording the second track, even if I delete the guide track,
I can still faintly hear what was on the guide track - in other words,
the new track has recorded the contents of the guide track at the same
time as the new input from the microphone. I have tried this several
times, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - probably because
I'm a musician and not a sound engineer.
If anyone has the patience to try to steer me though this, I shall be
extremely grateful.
David