[RWP] Update on record arm.

[Patrick Perdue]

That's not quite accurate. No matter which version of monitoring you 
use, the track must be armed for it to work, regardless of if you are 
recording or not.
The three options are:
Normal,
Track monitoring always happens when the track is armed, regardless of 
if you are playing or recording.
Not when playing,
Pretty self-explanatory. You only hear your track echo while it is 
recording. If you are playing audio back, no live input happens.
Record monitor off,
Also pretty self-explanatory.

You can also change track recording options per track so that, even if a 
track is armed and record is on, the input from any given track (or 
tracks) is not recorded. This might be useful if you want to record on 
tracks 1, 2 and 5, you want a live monitor from tracks 3 and 4, but 
don't need them recorded. You have to arm all those tracks in order for 
this to work, which would normally assume you want to record on any 
armed track when record is pressed, unless, of course, that's not what 
you actually want. I have found myself using this functionality a few 
times in semi-live situations.

On 8/19/2013 11:11 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Kevin,
> I think with the f8 key, you can choose how the monitoring works.  One
> of the three options is to echo the input only when it is armed.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Reeves" <lists at kevinreeves.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:40 PM
> Subject: [RWP] Update on record arm.
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>> Hey indie and all.
>>
>> First of all, I never meant to give off the vibe that I was somehow
>> sitting around and pointing out faults of reaper. Not sure where that
>> whole thing came from.
>>
>> Second of all, in Pro Tools, the default action is to turn monitoring
>> on for a track when it is armed. In sonar, there is a specific
>> keystroke that allows for the same actions to be performed.
>>
>> Because I'm dealing with tons of tracks when laying down vocals, ie 24
>> tracks of backing vocals, I need a quick way of navigating to a track,
>> hitting a key, having it arm and monitor, recording my phrase, hitting
>> said key again and moving to the next track: rinse and repeat.
>>
>> And with a bit of poking around, I found that reaper actually performs
>> this task quite nicely. The only thing I had to do was set the initial
>> state of the monitoring on the track, and it could be toggled on and
>> off with the arm hotkey all day long.
>> I went ahead and reset my arm key to shift r, as that's the key used
>> in PT, and the muscle memory is so entrenched that my workflow isn't
>> at all hindered.
>>
>> Now, all I need to do is research the best way to set all the tracks
>> in a given session to my preferred monitoring state, and I'll be all set.
>>
>> I think reaper is an exciting and amazing daw, and I plan to record an
>> entire album in it. But to do that, I need to take the time necessary
>> to set up my workflow so I'm working as fast and efficiently as I do
>> in Sonar and Pro Tools. No criticisms on this front.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
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