I am pretty sure pre roll allows you to hear what is o the track before you punch in, Ctrl 1 on p.c bring us transport to which you can program pre roll. Have a gander at loop recording and creating new playlist. In preferences you can select create new playlist when loop recording. This allows you to work on one track and have multiple spill tracks if you like. This makes it easy to compile a take from several. You will need to change track display to playlist though.
Good luck
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