# Instruments vs. audio directly on track
**URL:** https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867
**Category:** FMOD Studio
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 9:32am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867 "2021-03-12T09:32:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@123qwe](https://qa.fmod.com/u/123qwe)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 9:32am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/1 "2021-03-12T09:32:32Z")
Could someone explain to me the advantage of putting a ‘single’ instrument on an audio track, I understand the advantage of the multi instruments and some of the others, but I don’t see the purpose of a single instrument?
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### Author:  [@Alcibiade](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Alcibiade)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/2 "2021-03-12T10:28:23Z")
Your question makes sense. It seems indeed there’s nothing a single instrument can do that the multi instrument can’t.
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### Author:  [@123qwe](https://qa.fmod.com/u/123qwe)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/3 "2021-03-12T11:12:54Z")
So is it okay just to apply the audio directly to the track and not inserted into an instrument?
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### Author:  [@Alcibiade](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Alcibiade)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/4 "2021-03-12T11:42:40Z")
Maybe I didn’t correctly undestand your initial question. Applying the audio directly to the track creates a single instrument by default, isn’t it? (I’m not in front of my computer to verify, at the moment)
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### Author:  [@123qwe](https://qa.fmod.com/u/123qwe)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/5 "2021-03-12T12:07:55Z")
Sorry maybe i’m confusing you, There seems to be the option of just dragging audio onto a track, are there is the option of creating an instrument and then inserting the audio into that, So I’m just wondering what is the advantage of doing this?
When I drive the audio directly onto the track, I do not think it creates an instrument it just plays it out Like a DAW.
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### Author:  [@Alcibiade](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Alcibiade)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/6 "2021-03-12T12:19:09Z")
Drag/dropping audio in a track is exactly the same as creating a single instrument and drag/dropping audio in the instrument.
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### Author:  [@123qwe](https://qa.fmod.com/u/123qwe)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/instruments-vs-audio-directly-on-track/16867/7 "2021-03-12T12:54:46Z")
Ah OK, thanks, I suppose I am confessed as it creates this instrument container.