User Manual

RECORDING
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Figure 24-20: Look in the Transport commands for the Spot Erase
command, and other cycle-recording shortcuts, which can all be
assigned to MIDI notes for triggering directly from your MIDI control-
ler.
Changing the MIDI channel or patch on the fly
While you are cycle-recording, you can change the
device, MIDI channel, or current default patch on
the fly while recording as follows:
You can also map these shortcuts to MIDI keys on
your MIDI controller, so that you can do
everything from your MIDI controller during
recording. See chapter 9, “Commands” (page 95)
for details.
Cycle-recording in audio tracks
When you cycle-record into an audio track (with
Overdub Record mode turned on as shown in
Figure 24-19), Digital Performer automatically
creates a new take for each record pass. For
example, if you record a bass line into Take 1, the
track will automatically switch to take 2
immediately at the end of take 1. This allows you to
play a second take that is completely different than
the first.
Capturing the perfect take
By automatically creating takes during audio cycle-
recording, Digital Performer allows you to
continuously record multiple independent passes
into an audio track inside the current Memory
Cycle loop points. For example, you could set up
the Memory Cycle points around a solo section
and then continuously play in multiple passes of
the solo, one after the other, without ever stopping.
Digital Performer saves each pass separately during
recording. When you stop recording, Digital
Performer then splits each pass into its own take.
You can then choose among takes, or even build a
composite take based on parts from each pass
using Digital Performer’s powerful take comping
features; see chapter 51, “Takes and Comping”
(page 641).
Audio cycle-recording with punch-in/punch-out
Audio cycle-recording can also be used together
with Digital Performer’s Auto-Record punch in/
out feature. You can set up an Auto-Record time
range inside the Memory Cycle time range and
perform multiple record passes in Overdub Mode
as described earlier. Each pass inside the Auto-
Record range is stored in a separate take. This
allows you to give yourself a bit of pre-roll and
post-roll when recording multiple passes.
Audio cycle-recording in the POLAR window
Digital Performer’s POLAR window (Studio
menu) is specially designed for sound-on-sound
audio loop recording. In addition, POLAR has
several important advantages over Cycle Recording
into a hard disk audio track. Perhaps the most
important advantage is that POLAR lets you
overdub directly into the current pass, mixing the
new material with the existing material in the pass
on the fly, as you record. This is possible with
POLAR because the audio is being recorded into
the computer’s memory, which can be processed
much more quickly than data stored on a hard disk.
(When cycle-recording into a disk track, each pass
is saved separately as a different take, so they are
Next/Previous item Key to press
Device Shift up-arrow
Shift down-arrow
MIDI channel Option/Alt up-arrow
Option/Alt down-arrow
Default patch (sound) Command/Ctrl up-arrow
Command/Ctrl down-arrow