[nama] Re: Recording lead in.....
- From: alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:31:01 +0400
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:05:09AM +0400, alex stone wrote:
>> Julien, what i meant was, if i set the playback start point to 15.0,
>> then when i hit space, it actually starts from 15.0, in REC mode, and
>> doesn't automatically "jump back" to 2 secs before 15, or something
>> like that. (A common feature in the miserable GUI DAW world.)
>> Sometimes the playback goes a little weird and doesn't always want to
>> start where i set it. (I'm sure this user error, as another post i
>> made concerning setpos, and what actually happens in relation to
>> engine state.)
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Great that you're writing about this, as it's a use case
> I never considered: I didn't even know you could 'setpos'
> in a setup with a REC track. Maybe I wasted some
> effort (although the learning is never wasted)
> in the edits mode shifting all the tracks
> to the edit point, when I only really needed
> to load the setup and do a 'setpos' before
> recording. <sigh>
>
> But I've got naive question... why not just 'setpos 13'
> then start?
Yep, that's what i'm doing now, which is no hardship. I set the pb to
the point i want to start from, then rw 2 seconds. (This enables the
metronome to sound, me to get ready to play, etc...)
Use case is: Set the pb point (minus 2) then hit SPACE and record.
Next track, setpos (up arrow for the same point), rw (2 secs), REC,
rinse and repeat, etc....
If we can setpos in either running or stopped engine mode, even if a
track is set to REC, then imho, it will remove a lot of donkey work,
and make the workflow more intuitive, not to mention quite a bit
faster. (imho)
Couple this with the discussion about the track having REC priority
over the bus, and the user can get some serious momentum when doing
multiple recordings for long periods, with the minimum of keystrokes.
The point of this is not to let the admin, i.e. setting up and
preparing, get in the way of the momentum of creative flow.
Regards,
Alex.
p.s. The world of non-gui has me by the throat now..... :) Pure
workflow, and no mouse. Woohoo.
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