Hi Justin and co,
Hoping this is an easy one
One critical feature missing from Reaper for anyone doing orchestral (or any recordings where there are tempo changes) is the ability to
record during the Count-Off (
NOT to be confused with Pre-Roll). Honestly, this should also be available in MIDI too.
Currently, there is no way to record during the Count-Off to capture players who may come in early… or who may be playing a lead-in note or an anticipation. In reaper, you would have to have pre-roll engaged.
The problem with pre-roll is if there is a different tempo in the previous measure, all the players will coming at the wrong tempo on the downbeat of the punch-in measure.
Nuendo/Cubase have a simple record buffer in seconds and using it in conjunction with a count-in solves all these issues.
Having done this for 20+ years… it’s clear to me this count-off
pre-record amount should be in seconds or ms, NOT tempo based. The benefits are that each recording will have the same amount of pre-record no matter what meter or tempo and makes comping and editing in other DAWs as well as Reaper
MUCH easier since all the recordings have the exact same amount of pre-record.
I would also assume it’s easier to implement (coding-wise) if the pre-record buffer is always the same (fixed) time-based amount (not tempo or meter dependent).
Hoping this is possible and easy to implement!
Thanks for an already great DAW!
(this is a copy from an old thread in the wrong place -- putting it in the appropriate FR forum).