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Hi,
I have a drum machine-MD, Blofeld, and a midi keyboard controller. All audio is going into a mixer, out to Audio Kontrol-1 and out of AK-1 to amp.

Problem is this when I play drum machine and want to record blofeld, it also records the drum machine on that track...and I cant isolate it (i can see the audio (MD) 'playing' on all audio tracks)
Is there a way to have the MD playing, where I can hear it, but NOT record it into the track where I record blofeld?
I want to only record Blofeld, on that track.
I want to record the drum machine on another track but alone.
I have everything synced to the drum machine, so the drum machine must run, it activates live7.
I am recording audio only. How can I do that?
TIA

play and record each instrument alone.

"All audio is going into a mixer, out to Audio Kontrol-1"
so the audio is mixed coming out of your mixer? there's no fixing that inside Live. that's your problem.

Tone Deft wrote:play and record each instrument alone.

That doesn't help. I can do that, but what's the point?
I want to play the drum machine and record various lines/melodies into live-more jamming thing then recording...
what I don't like is, I make a bass line and you hear bass line+drums..lead+drums...pad+drums.. if I want to mute all but bass line I have bass line+drums...

With the drum machine and Blofeld, I have to go into mixer-where else can i run the audio?
anyway, thanx for reply

Take the mixer out of the equation. I don't know much about the AK-1, but it has at least 2 inputs, no? Instead of recording the signal from your mixer, can't you plug the synth and the drum maching into 2 separate audio channels on your interface?

myxomat0515 wrote:Take the mixer out of the equation. I don't know much about the AK-1, but it has at least 2 inputs, no? Instead of recording the signal from your mixer, can't you plug the synth and the drum maching into 2 separate audio channels on your interface?

I probably could, but how would it work? What I need is a mixer that can ISOLATE a channel, where you can monitor it, but not record it if you don't want to...Call it selective recording...

your sound card is 4 channels (2 stereo pairs.) use one input for recording, another for playing through.

use a send on your mixer to separate out a track.