Playing a Track While Recording a New One

[S.T.Ranger]

Is it possible to play an existing track while recording a new one?

[TLW]

If you mean "can Live do multi-track recording and let you hear what you have recorded in a project while recording another track in the same project" then yes. That's Live's default behaviour.

[S.T.Ranger]

Thanks for the reply, TLW. The problem I had was I didn't realize I was recording in midi rather than audio. Learning this program has been a little difficult so far. I was able to record a song with it and my next step is to incorporate drums. I've looked at the drums on the program and was told I can use the keyboard to play them but I haven't had much success with that so going to get a machine with drum pads that I can manually play. Again, thanks for the response.

[TLW]

Ah. OK. Sounds like you’ve solved the problem.

As it happens, I’m useless at trying to record drums using a keyboard as well. Pads can make things easier. I usually have a pair of pads next to each other set to generate snares and another couple doing the same for hi-hats. I find that makes doing faster or fancier stuff easier.

Most of the time I want more electronic sorts of drums though, and those I usually step sequence.