Overbridge with Audacity?

Elektron Software Overbridge
#1

first post, total noob, love this place

i want to individually record each track on my a4 into separate audacity tracks. is it possible? at the end of, say, a jam, i want to be able to edit/mix/throw fx on each track separately. has anyone tried this?

i see a lot of ableton stuff, but i’m keen on audacity at the moment. i guess in audacity i would need to have multiple tracks created and “armed” to record…and each track would correspond to a track in overbridge.

when i go into audacity’s plug-in manager, it doesn’t even show overbridge as an option to select. perhaps i still haven’t gotten learned what i need to in audacity, but i figured i’d ask here because this community is very responsive and involved :-] maybe one of yall have done this and know exactly what i need to do, or maybe not. peace either way, and thanks!

edit: i’ll probs post this in overbridge too, and take it to audacity as well, but for now here it is

#2

Audacity does not have ASIO for low latency and neither can it load VST-instruments, only effect-plugins… not shure if that is going to change in the future.

ATM, it is not possible.

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#3

You can do this without Overbridge. In Audacity go to Preferences->Devices and select your A4 as your device under the Recording section, then select 8 under the Channels section.

You’ll have to hit record and then start playing, unless you figure out a way to get the A4 to sync to Audacity, and if you have any unused tracks on the A4 you’ll get empty tracks recorded in Audacity (easy to delete though.)

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#4

that is awesome. problem solved! thank you so much

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#5

ah dang, wait…under Channels it’s only giving me 1 channel (mono) or 2 channels (stereo). i thought i read that changing the sound interface in audacity from MME to Direct Sound or to WASAPI enabled multi-track recording, but changing it doesn’t yield any different results…