Basics - Recording a Clip

The first step to recording a clip is to select your audio input options. Click the Audio Options icon on the track control panel, which will open the audio options for that track. Select the device and channels you wish to use. If you have an ASIO capable device, selecting it as the Device will give you the best possible performance with MixPad. If you have an ASIO capable sound card with multiple inputs, you can record several different sources into different tracks at the same time. Simply choose which input you would like to use for each track from the audio settings dialog.

In the same recording options window, you can also choose which Sample Rate you would like to use for recording, and whether you would like to record in stereo or mono. Click OK to save the audio settings.

Now click the Record button on the track's control panel to place the track into record-standby mode - MixPad will not start recording yet. Check that the audio level meter, located at the bottom of the track control panel, is registering an input. If there is no meter reading here, your audio input devices have not been set up properly.

Finally, press the main record button (found at the bottom with the other project control buttons), and MixPad will start recording.

You can easily record to multiple tracks by putting more than one track into record-standby mode. When you press the main record button, any track in record-standby mode will commence recording.

If in the recording process you are not satisfied with what has been recorded and want to restart, simply click Rerecord, MixPad will discard everything recorded and restart recording from beginning.

Punch and Roll

Select a region then choose Punch and Roll to record exactly on the selected region.

To start punch and roll recording, select a region and click the Record button from the Recording Tab and select Punch and Roll. You can also click the arrow next to the Record button and select Punch and Roll.

There are different record modes in the Punch and Roll recording. You can access this by going to the MixPad Options -> Generals tab then click the Punch and Roll Settings… button

The Auto mode chooses between "Fixed" and "Flexible" smartly based on the type of audio we are recording over.
The Fixed mode automatically stops based on the duration of the selected region. This mode is recommended for music audio types.
The Flexible mode continues recording from the selected region and stops until the user decides to. This mode is recommended for voice audio types like podcasts, etc.

Repeat Record (Multiple Take Feature)

Multiple take is an advanced feature which allows you to record the same segment several times. After recording, you will have a multiple-take clip, which is one clip that contains multiple takes. You can choose the best one and delete all other takes.

To use this feature, select a region on the timeline and enable loop mode, set one or more track(s) to record mode using sound recorder, then start recording before the region. You will notice that your recording will loop from the region start to the region end. Each loop will create a take. When finished, you can use the popup menu to choose the take you want, or you can press Ctrl + Shift + P (Previous), Ctrl + Shift + N (Next) to choose the previous or next take in the multiple-take clip.

Currently this feature does not support MIDI recording.