Mark, Ardour has a configurable pre-roll that I imagine does what you describe but haven't used it. ron --- Mark Knecht <mknecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Currently, this *can* be done in ardour, but the > steps needed > > are less than intuitive. > > > > 1. make a range selection > > 2. right-click to popup menu, choose "Select->New > Location from selection" > > (note, *not* Selection->LoopSelection !!) > > 3. open the Locations window from the Windows menu > > 4. check the Loop column for the location you just > made > > 5. Select the loop button (icon) in the transport > bar > > 6. Position the playhead somewhere in or before > the loop area > > and press play. > > > > When you change the checked loop location you may > have to reselect > > the loop transport button (bug). Also, when you > delete a location > > (by shift-right-clicking on the marker bar), it > won't delete it > > from the location window (bug). > > > > I will do my best to make this a much more > streamlined process > > in future versions of ardour. > > > > jlc > > Jesse, > That's come along quite a bit. > > I'm not sure from your description above whether > Ardour does this, but > there is one thing you might want to look at for > loop recording more human > friendly. It's really nice if the loop selection and > the recording selection > can be made to be different lengths. The issue is > that the musician needs to > hear a lead in to the point where they start to do > their work, and to make > it human friendly the whole process needs to stay in > the groove or it's hard > to be musical. > > Consider this situation: > > 1) I'm doing a song with a guitar part that I'm > going to record in two > pieces. The first piece goes up to the end of > measure 50, and the second > starts at measure 51 and goes to the end of measure > 59. > > 2) I've recorded something good for the first part > and now I want to loop > record the second part. > > 3) To get the groove right, I need the loop point to > jump back to the > beginning of measure 49 so I hear 49 and 50, and > then as the play head > crosses into 51 the recording starts and I record > the second parts. > > 4) Fairly important is that I need to hear the first > guitar part AND my live > guitar through 49 & 50, but nothing I play in 49 & > 50 is recorded. > > 5) Mucho important - Nothing about recording the > second guitar part should > be in any way destructive to the first guitar part > that is already recorded. > > After all this gets done, then you end up doing > fades between the audio > segments, etc., to put it all together. > > Don't know how much of that you've already got. > Quite a bit I expect. > > Cheers, > Mark > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
