I'm presently evaluating Audition 5.5 and haven't been able to find any information pertaining to what others MUST do everyday.
I'd like to use Audition to record simultaneous tracks from different sources (microphones). I'm using several USB sound card dongles (each with a single 3.5mm stereo microphone input and headphone/speaker output) as quick and convenient method of creating an array of microphone inputs. Each dongle appears as a discrete audio device with a corresponding input and output.
Fine so far.
Where I'm struggling is in trying to map each microphone to discrete mixer channel. I choose Edit->Preferences->Audio Channel Mapping, but it seems that only channels from any one particular sound device may be mapped to mixer channels at any time. If I assign the microphone from sound card A to Track 1, I can't assing the microphone from sound card B to Track 2. When I try, it alters the hardware device selection and negates any prior channels I've mapped that aren't part of the same device. I hope I've explained the situation clearly.
I'd like to map the microphone from sound device (dongle) A to Track 1, the microphone from device B to Track 2, C to 3 and so forth. But I cant' seem to figure out how to make Audition simultaneously recognize more than any one sound device at any particular time.
Is there a way to do what I'm trying to achieve? Does Audition not support simultaneous mixing/recording from multiple hardware devices? If not, do other products exist that DO support the configuration I'm trying to create which I can use as a front-end - to later mix-down in Audition?
I'd greatly appreciate any helpful insight, guidance, suggestions or recommendations.
Thanks!