Cant Get More Than Four Tracks In Logic., need some help Options

[Tripierdagne]

I am using Logic on my mac mini these days and I have an Alesis Multimix 8 Firewire. The multimix has four XLR inputs. Now when recording in Logic I select the track on the multimix for the track that i have selected. The problem is that when I use up the first four XLR tracks and need a 5th track i use one of the four XLR inputs on the multimix. When I do that the new track (5) is now linked up with one of the first four tracks (whichever input im using) because they are the same channel on the mixer. In Garageband I can make 30 tracks and have them all be input 1 on the multimix. I want to do this with logic. Any ideas?

-TD

[lancet]

First look at Preferences> Audio > Drivers and see what your "Max number of audio tracks" is set to. Adjust as required.

Then check Audio>Audio Mixer. How many audio channels do you have set up?
It sounds like you have 4. They have to be in this environment.

In the Audio Mixer select New>Audio object and create as many as you need. You can drag things around as you see fit

Then in the Arrange window you can select your last real audio track (in your case , Audio 4) and then pick "Track > create with next instrument" to add your new audio tracks. Or you can pick "create multiple" to add more than one.

Then you just need to make sure the I/O section of the channel strip in the mixer is set as you need it to be.

---Objects in the environment (audio mixer) can be added as tracks to the Arrange window.
---Tracks in the Arrange window will then be in your track mixer.

good luck

This post has been edited by lancet: Sat 6 May 2006, 15:39