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Mark,
Ardour has a configurable pre-roll that I imagine does

 what you describe but haven't used it.
ron
--- Mark Knecht  wrote:

quoted text
> >

> > 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

>

> 

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