Patent ID: 8264934

Claim:
A method for creating a multitrack recording, comprising: a) establishing a set of audio slaves that contains at least one handheld digital electronic device; b) establishing another handheld digital electronic device to be a master; c) establishing an audio recording set that contains at least two devices taken from a set that includes the master and the audio slaves; c) transmitting by the master a signal to collect samples; d) receiving the signal to collect samples by the audio slaves; e) collecting at a uniform constant sampling interval a respective sequence of audio samples by each device in the audio recording set; f) transmitting by the master a signal to start track recording; g) receiving the signal to start track recording by the audio slaves; and h) selecting by each device in the audio recording set a respective initial audio sample from its sequence of audio samples for an audio track corresponding to that device, the selection being based upon the time of transmitting the signal to start track recording.