phase and stereo image help

[mixsit]

Is nuendo and cubase the only DAWs that have a 'move to origin' function?

The stretch out to the beginning fo the timeline trick doesn't work for me because I have Nuendo set up to record 10 seconds before I actually hit the record button.

Whoah! You just blew my mind. Are you from the future?

..not yet

 

[miroslav]

Is nuendo and cubase the only DAWs that have a 'move to origin' function?

The stretch out to the beginning fo the timeline trick doesn't work for me because I have Nuendo set up to record 10 seconds before I actually hit the record button.

Samplitude has the "move to original position" option (you can even edit the WAV header and create a new "original postion")...but that still leave out the situation when transferring files from DAW to DAW....so the practice of recording at the start of the timeline is still the best option.

If Nuedno records 10 second before you hit the Record button (that does sound strange when you say it like that )....wouldn't it do that for all your tracks? So...if you started recording always from the same point (like the very beginning)....wouldn't all you tracks still be in sync AND expandable back to the start point...which can be made to be the very start of the timeline + the extra 10 seconds for every track....?

 

[Farview]

If you start all the tracks at the beginning of the timeline, then that would work. But I don't do that because I record other people, so wasting that kind of time to add a lead at the end of a six minute tune would be frowned on by the people paying me by the hour. When I need to export, I simply arm all the tracks and hit record for a couple seconds, thenselect all and bounce all the tracks to make them a solid wave from beginning to end with all the edits. Then I take those file from my pool and send them off.

 

[miroslav]

But of course....you have a different requirement and an SOP with a different solution.

I don't usually punch-in parts....and when I do have a lead or something that has to only go somewhere in the middle or end of a song, I'll still record lead throughout the whole track from the start anyway...that way I still get the part where it's supposed to go, but by recording the whole track, I have additional/alternate lead lines that I can use/move if necessary. So I don't ever just wait for the the punch-in point....but with clients, yes, you often have to cut-to-the-chase to get it done quickly.