Intermittent Recording Distortion

[Banjomandoguy]

I received this software with a Behringer UPHORIA UMC404HD audio input, and have gone through available youtube training videos. My needs are humble in that I am a singer/songwriter of bluegrass/folk/americana type music, and want to get my songs recorded cleanly with minimal affects added. I was using Audacity with a single USB stereo mic, but bought the Behringer so I could have up to 4 inputs for better balancing of vocals. I really like the ease of use, flexibility, and better interface with the Behringer of Tracktion, but as I've been testing things out, I had a couple of instances of extreme distortion/garbling/noise in the recording. Both times I had added tracks to by initial track, but I don't think it had anything to do with the recording process itself. What I tried to do to isolate it was listen to each track separately, a all were affected. I tried to purposely recreate what I was doing (click on various tracks, rerecording a track, etc) and wasn't able to recreate it. I tried to UNDO, but the garble/corruption persisted. I finally closed the project and reopened it, and in both cases it was fine (I hadn't saved it after the corruption occurred). I really like the ease, but I'm concerned that I put a lot of hours on something and have the project corrupted wasting my (and especially my wife's) time. Any ideas what I'm doing (doing wrong)?

[Banjomandoguy]

If anyone is interested, it was my ignorance that caused the problem. In the settings/device type, I had Windows Audio (apparently the default), and it needed to be ASIO. That brought up the UMC Driver for my audio input device, and I have had no problems since then. Lots to learn, but this product should work great for what I'm doing.

[Watchful]

Great news. As always, I appreciate when a user solves his or her own problem and posts the results so we can all learn from it. That has saved me lots of time when I have problems. Welcome to the Waveform world! This is an incredible bunch of people here.

[dRowAudio]