You should also turn off your system sounds. Most system sounds tend to
be at 11 kHz or 22 kHz. Imagine that you're recording the best guitar solo of
your life and someone clicks on something on the screen. The 22 kHz
system sound will play out of an unused output and drop the sample rate of
the whole system to 22, ruining your take.
If you really want system sounds, use your laptop’s internal sound card and
play them through that. Set the preferred device in the Multimedia control
panel to the laptop’s internal sound device and check “Use preferred devices
only.”
Q: What are the rules that I should follow if I want to use
multiple audio applications at the same time?
- Set all your applications to the same sample rate. (You can also use the
“sample rate lock” feature in the Console to help with this.)
-Turn off your system sounds.
- Figure out ahead of time, which inputs and outputs each application is
going to use. Inputs and outputs cannot be shared between applications.
Q: What's the downside to all this?
The main downside is that your computer may very well have a hard time
keeping up! If you fire up three different audio apps at once, your computer
is probably going to struggle unless you have a really hot machine. The key
here is memory, more memory, and a fast CPU.
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