Punching and Post-Playback

[hutchinson9736]

Hi,

My punch is set to Normal and my Pre- & Post-Roll are set. I also have activated Auto-Input Monitoring.

I want to be able to hear the audio on a track before and after a punch. With this, I am only able to hear Pre-Roll audio.

I am able to achieve this with with QuickPunch, but all that extra audio is unnecessary for me.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul

Pro Tools 9.0.3
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1

[hutchinson9736]

Even if someone told me I need to do more reading I'd be happy.

Let me know if I need to provide more information or if I should hit the books.

Thanks,
Paul

[cneal92]

Go to the Playback Engine and set the DAE Playback Buffer (disk buffer) to the minimum setting. Hopefully your drive and session can playback at this setting. That minimizes the disk buffer and allows the post-roll audio to get through faster. If you can't play your session this way (drive too slow, etc.), then use QuickPunch (and then Compacting to eliminate the unnecessary audio). Or what I used to do a lot and still do in certain circumstances, is create a separate track to record to. So you can cut out what you are punching in on the Vocal track, for instance, and record to the "record" track so your pre-/post-roll audio is coming from the Vocal track.

[daeron80]

Having lots of unused audio data in a session isn't the problem it used to be. Even the most modestly priced computers today have far more than enough power, RAM, and disk space to accommodate it. I find that it's no longer worth worrying about.

[hutchinson9736]

Thanks Chris. That helped but it's still not enough, so I will take one of the other routes. Just curious but would this be reduced further if I had a faster hard drive?

@daeron80 - Just because we have the space, it does not mean that we shouldn't take care of and clean up our drives.

[daeron80]

It may be a different story in Canada, I don't know. Prices could be that different, I suppose. I used to be obsessive about minimizing wasted space. It was an essential skill back when a big hard disk was 6 GB, and you could only stream 16 tracks off each. But now, with tracking-quality hard disk space going for less than a dime per GB, and flash storage for less than a dollar per GB, you gotta weigh that against the cost of the time you put into session management. If I spend 10 minutes deleting and compacting unused data, it had better save me 10 GB - which is impossible - or I lost.