easily record in tracktion waveform by either punching in and out on the fly or
by using the auto punch method this tracktion waveform tutorial will work
with both waveform free and waveform 11 pro I'm Zane from audiotechtv.com
and on this channel I do weekly audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help
you conquer the tech and unleash your creativity and recently I was asked to
do a tracktion waveform tutorial on punch recording and there are two ways to do
punch recording in waveform so let's quickly look at both and if you aren't
sure what punch recording is it's basically recording parts onto a track
while playing it back so if there's a few bars on a track that you want to fix
up but you want to leave the rest of the recording in place you can use punch
recording to start playing along before you actually record and then when it
punches in you'll be recording and you'll only record the section that you
want so you'll keep the rest of your recording intact it's kind of hard to
explain right now but you'll see what I mean when we get into this tutorial so
first let's look at the more traditional way of setting up your punch in and
punch out points which is also known as Auto punch so first you want to move the
markers up here to cover the section that you want to punch in and punch out
of this is the section you want to record and I'm going to set it like this
now we're going to arm the track for recording
now make sure the punch button is pressed in and the loop button is not
pressed in you can't have the loop button pressed at the same time and you
want to set your playback start point several bars ahead of the actual punched
in section this way you can play along or sing along and it's going to sound a
little more natural when you hit that recording section and once you're ready
hit record
and you can press stop whenever you're done so that's the auto punch method and
before we get into the next way I just want to ask if you're enjoying this
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out and I appreciate it so much now this next way will be more for
vocalists or people that are working with others as this way is on the fly
punch recording and it can be hard for solo artists trying to play a guitar or
piano and hit buttons at the same time so if you're producing someone else or
having someone else produce you this way can really work for editing multiple
sections quickly without having to setup punch in and punch out sections so you
want to make sure the punch mode is turned off and for this I'm just going
to speak into the mic to demonstrate how it works and you'll be able to see how
this can work for instruments or vocals so arm the track for recording then hit
the record button alright so this is a test of punch recording on the fly so
right now I'm recording but if I go over here and disarm the track from recording
you can see it stopped recording and then I press it again it starts
recording again and you can keep doing this as it keeps playing through and
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