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Question

How to play and record at the same time ?

Jun 28, 2015 10:16AM PDT

I thought I could easily record a capella alone and I thought I could find software to offer the convenience of starting playing an audio file and recording sound at the same time(like using headphones and recording only my sound) so I could stack the records without any hassle with timing and create my amateur a capella record alone but I can't find anything like that.

Such software would be very useful...

Please help

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So your audio player and Audacity?
Jun 28, 2015 10:27AM PDT
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Maybe
Jun 28, 2015 11:54PM PDT

Maybe I can work that but it seems too long to read and try. Do I need to check hardware ? I have a 1 year old i7 laptop, a dual core E5200 desktop, and high-top end android smartphone, I was expecting sth simple. There better be a simpler "how to ..." page

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It's available
Jun 28, 2015 10:30AM PDT

In Linux I use "Record My Desktop" and when in windows use "CamStudio". Both are free and work by capturing video or sound or both that is showing and/or playing on the desktop.

Here you can see Record My Desktop used in Linux to capture a desktop screensaver while it was playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj-eKEa5ic

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I don't think that's what I want
Jun 28, 2015 11:49PM PDT

James, I need to click once to start playing the music and once to start recording using that, so they won't start at the same time and I will have to adjust milliseconds while stacking the records...

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yes
Jun 29, 2015 4:52PM PDT

that's exactly how both of those programs work.

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Do you mean ...
Jun 29, 2015 11:04PM PDT

Do you mean that once the audio recorder detect the audio signal, it starts recording automatically without clicking by you?

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No
Jun 30, 2015 2:36AM PDT

You have to start one then the other. What I do is get what I want to record ready to go, and then open the recording program too. I then can clk on both starts very quickly. If I want one for youtube, I start the recording, then open and start the video playing, and if I want I can edit out the part before the video starts to play using the youtube tools. Of course there's editors one can use on the computer to cut off one end or the other of a recording.

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Here's one showing CamStudio used
Jun 30, 2015 2:47AM PDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_owgrzH4ls

Notice the recording software was started first, but in this one it was to show how to use thunderbird email to create an easy html page, saved as a template. You then see the recording program stopped. Editing would allow cutting off the start and end parts if wanted.
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1 Second is too big of a time discordance
Jul 1, 2015 2:46AM PDT

1 second is too big of a time discordance even for an "amateur" a capella record. There will be at least several records to be added on top of each other and if one can't adjust the timing at least in the order of like 0.01 seconds they won't stack good enough...

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It just records, not edits
Jul 1, 2015 11:34PM PDT

There used to be one called "cakewalk" that everyone used. I've not checked on it in years, since had no personal need of it.