Clicking on punch in...zero crossings...need help.

[dizzyzuma]

I am working on a project that is NOT exactly "in time." It's live acoustic guitar and vocal. In other words there is no click track and I am working in SLIP mode NOT GRID mode. We are doing overdubs and I am getting a terrible pop on the in and out points that I never experienced before when punching in.

The weirdest thing is that once in a while I won't get a pop but most of the time I do. I even went so far as to find the zero-crossing points on each side before I punched and still no luck.

As an experiment I exported a section of the concert and threw it in my old standby Cool Edit Pro (on another computer) and I am able to highlight my selection, tell it to find the zero crossings, punch in, record, and it works just fine.

Any thoughts? Do I need to worry about zero crossings with Pro Tools? Does it automatically find them for you when you punch?

[protein]

I'd zoom in on the point where the audio overlaps and make sure the waveform lines up. If they don't there's often a click.

[Cliffy_Boy]

You need to do a crossfade between the Punched in region and the adjacent region.

[lemix]

You need to do a crossfade between the Punched in region and the adjacent region.

Is this a Mac only function ?

[Cliffy_Boy]

Hardy har ahr har cough chock har har har

[lemix]

Hardy har ahr har cough chock har har har

OK, but didn't quite compute...
Must be the "entire" OSX code....
Why don't you come over to the B&G, and talk about it ?
BTW, I see you survived the ;

flame barrier attack?????

voyez-vous alligator postérieur,

[dizzyzuma]

Wait a minute here,

Are you guys telling me that to perform a simple punch-in I have to perform an additional step and crossfade the meet points? Excuse me but this is ridiculous! I have used much older multri-track software and never has it been so complicated. I'm a little frustrated with Pro Tools right now. It's not saving me any time at the moment.

[Cliffy_Boy]

Sorry - you weren't goofing on me? Crossfades a mac only thing? I don't get it then.

[lemix]

Of course I'm kidding you !
I "goof" around 24/7...and don't you forget that ! !

TO dizzyzuma :

>PT preferences>editing>quickpunch crossfade length
That should do ya ...

good luck,

[Cliffy_Boy]

>PT preferences>editing>quickpunch crossfade length
That should do ya ...

Isn't that a PC only command?