> Regarding the digital audio (rather than MIDI) approach, I'll try to > space the punchin and punchout points a little farther apart than I > normally would, to give me a greater choice *after* re-recording the > section as to exactly where I want the actual punch to occur. (I hadn't > thought of that, obvious though it may now seem. ;-) i'm missing something probably, but why would you punch in/out on a daw when you can just create a new track, play along during the section you'd like to replace, and then cut/paste edit to replace the other part?