[ardour-users] Pre-Roll?

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:44 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Is there anyway to get Ardour to do a pre-roll when recording?  I
> haven't found it in the Ardour interface.  I've checked a few of
> the Ardour tutorials on the web, the docs in the tarball, and the
> mailing lists' archives, but not found anything on pre-roll.
> 
> The best idea I've been able to come up with so far, which I
> haven't actually tried, is to set the punch in/out to cover
> the entire song, with the beginning loop point set coincident
> with the punch-in and the ending loop point set at the desired
> pre-roll amount after the punch-out.
> 
> Is there an easier way to get pre-roll?

do you want auto-punch, or manual punch?