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Multitracking Your Audio

Multitrack Audio allows you to separate your recording's audio into five discrete tracks; Mixed, Microphone, System Sound, Application, and Stream Only. This will give you the flexibility to separate or edit tracks individually during post-production as well as allow you to switch between audio tracks when using media players that support it.

Magix Vegas showing a video with multitracked channels


Enabling Multitrack Audio for Local Recordings



Go to Record, then click the gear icon next to Active Scene to open its properties window.

Record > Active Scene with the tool icon highlighted

Enable the Create multitrack recording of microphone and system audio option.

Local Recording properties with Create Multitrack recording of microphone and system audio checked


Enabling Multitrack Audio for Stream Recordings



Click the gear icon next to one of your Broadcast outputs to open its properties window.

highlighting the gear icon next to the YouTube Live output

Enable the Create multitrack recording of microphone and system audio option.

Checking Create Multitrack recording of microphone and system audio checked

Automatically save recording on local drive has to be enabled to create stream recordings.


Audio Tracks



Mixed

The combined audio track from all sound sources. This includes audio from the system sound, microphones, and even sources set to output to Stream Only.

System Sound

Audio captured from the System Sound device set in your Audio settings.
The devices listed here will be from your Windows Playback Devices.

These include speakers, headphones, Line Out, etc.

Selecting Speakers as the System Sound option

Microphone

Audio captured from the Microphone device set in your Audio settings.
The devices listed here will be from your Windows Recording Devices.

These include microphones, USB mixers, Line In, etc.

Selecting Microphone Array as the Microphone option

Stream Only

Audio from sources with their Audio Output set to Stream Only.


A source's audio output is set to System Sound by default. You can change this setting by right-clicking on your source to bring up its properties window, then clicking the Audio Output drop-down underneath Playback.

Highlighting Stream only as the audio output in the HD user Facing camera source properties

By setting a source's audio output to Stream Only, their sound will be routed directly to the recording or stream.

Application

The Application track is a captured audio from either of your Screen Capture or Game Capture sources. Both mentioned sources go through the System Sound by default, which this track will only have the capture source's audio.

Updated on: 11/08/2022

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