[ardour-users] How do punch ranges work?

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:03 +0200, Iwan Heskamp wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> in preparation for a bigger project I was experimenting with some  
> functions,
> among those punch recording. I was under the impression that I would  
> be able
> to select a punch range, select a track to record and then play the  
> project,
> then that track would only be recorded for that range. However, I'm  
> not able to get
> that scenario to work. I tried all possible combinations without the  
> desired effect.
> The track would just record all or nothing instead of just the range.
> I checked the online manual but it seems that it's not updated  
> completely yet?

did you click the punch in + punch out buttons in the transport bar? if
these are not enabled, the punch range is ignored. by using just one of
them, you can ignore either the start or end of the punch range as well.

--p