I recorded a guitar track and I would get my preroll sound before the actual recording punched in. All of a sudden now I don't get it anymore. It almost looks like it is recording a track over the pre-roll. No sound at all. How do I get my track sound back so I can play along before the punch in?
Logic Pro
In order to hear "pre-roll" in Logic, you need to have the record fader up... AND... you need to use Auto-Punch. If your track is record-armed, the "pre-roll" control in the project settings will NOT result in track playback during the pre-roll.
To monitor pre-roll in Logic, you need to mark an Auto-Punch start and stop, then start playback before that recording selection--that's your "pre-roll."
It's an extra step compared with ProTools and most other DAWs, and I agree it would be nice if Logic's pre-roll simply played back the existing track up to the punch point.
If you agree, please file a feature request:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html
Cheers!
-James
Thanks James, I will give it a try...The thing of it was everything was going great. I put the marker bar on the place I want to start recording and press "R" and it would go back two bars and start playing the track and then I would pick it up at the marker. Now it still goes back two bars but no playback and I can still record at the marker but it's not doing what it was. I pushed something to make it stop but not sure what. I was messing with trying to split a track with a shortcut and may have hit a shortcut key that changed something.
Huh... that's odd. Maybe you were working with multiple tracks ?
If you find a way to make recording work exactly the way you're describing, please do report back here with details, because I'm quite certain it's impossible, and I'd definitely appreciate that feature!
-James
endx wrote:
Thanks James, I will give it a try...The thing of it was everything was going great. I put the marker bar on the place I want to start recording and press "R" and it would go back two bars and start playing the track and then I would pick it up at the marker.
This is exactly how it works on my system, I just tried a test. When I read your post I thought, yes, that sounds right, Logic backs up how many bars you're using for the Count-In. I only use a one-bar count so Logic only backs up one bar, plays your prerecorded tracks and picks up recording at the designated point.
This is in Logic 9.1.3, I haven't upgraded and probably won't as everything is running so well, I have no markers set and have not done anything special, plus it works that way whether it's recording separate tracks or overdub comp tracks.
So, finally found where I can go to a previous version. I renamed the song I had and copied my new tracks. I opened up the older version where it was working correctly and pasted the new tracks in. Worked perfect so I am not touching anything from now on except my guitar or until I get some classes 😉
But, wait... you guys aren't hearing playback on the record-armed track during the pre-roll period, are you ?
That's how I interpreted the original question:
1) Record from bars 1-20 on Track 1
2) Put the SPL at bar 10 for a punch-in
3) Enable a count-in/pre-roll of 4 bars
4) Press record
What happens is the SPL moves back to bar 6, and recording starts. But there is no playback of the existing region on Track 1 in bars 6-10. I can hear *other* tracks play back during that pre-roll period, but not the one that's record-armed.
As far as I know, this is always the way that Logic has worked, and I just confirmed it in a fresh project. Are you guys really getting different behavior ? I'd love to be able to drop the SPL somewhere, hit record, and hear the track I'm punching into during the pre-roll, but I've only ever been able to accomplish this using Auto-Punch.
-James
Ok, so my curiosity just got the best of me and I am dupped again...I know what it is...when I press just the "S" key on the keyboard the pre-roll sound goes away. This is the problem but now even the previous versions are following this lead. I looked up some of the other posts but nothing matched my issue. Using Logic 9.1.1. Working perfect unitl I pushed that key. The keyboard commands has it assigned to "solo'.
Since it was "song" related it's probably related to "Settings" as "Preferences" are Global.
James, I think we're talking about two different functions.
I lost my preroll sound on my track when recording
