> -----Original Message----- > From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra [mailto:h@...] > > >A trick I have found is that on a multi-port Audio card (like the > >M-audio Delta's) I can route the Output of an audio instrument to say > >the 3rd audio output and cable this back in to a 3rd audio input and > >record the audio of the 3rd audio input and use the M-audio software > >mixer to set this up . No bouncing required. Of course your soundcard > >must support this feature. > > And what's the gain? You still have to play the entire song in order > to record the instrument... And you have a totally unnecessary AD/DA > transition. If done using ADAT there is no lossy conversions going on at all right? The reason I've always heard people talk about doing it that way is for zero-latency monitoring of real-time effects using software monitoring. Maybe not to actually record to a new audio track (since bounce would do the exact same thing) but for 0-latency monitoring of effects. There was a big article on how to do this in the March 2002 issue of Sound on Sound, using two separate Physical Inputs etc. Jeremy