Reference
Punch In/Out
The group of controls between 'Pause Clock' and 'Host Tempo' are the punch in/out section. These are used in conjunction with Tap Record, and affect the exact time that the start and end of recording take place. This can be useful when creating loops in sync with other material playing in the host application.
Note that most of these features rely on the host application's concept of tempo and meter. Some hosts may support none or only some of these features.
Punch In Quantize (menu)
When set to 'None', tap recording starts immediately you press the 'Tap Rec' button. Otherwise, the start of recording is delayed until a time quantized by the setting of this menu. E.g. if set to '1/4' the recording will not start until the next full beat (quarter note) arrives.
Punch Out Quantize (menus)
When set to 'None', tap recording ends immediately you press the 'Tap Rec' button. Otherwise the settings have the following meaning:
- Length - recording ends automatically once the loop has reached the length it had before you started recording.
- LengthQ - recording ends at a time quantized such that the loop has a length that is a multiple of the value selected. E.g. if you select a quantization of '1 Bar', when you press Tap Rec to stop recording, recording will continue until the loop length is a whole number of bars long.
- PositionQ - similar to Punch In Quantize, in that the time of the end of recording is quantized. Please note the difference between quantizing the time of the beginning and end of recording and quantizing the length of the recording.
Punch In and Out (buttons)
These buttons allow the loop input level (the 'Input' knob) to be automatically set by the beginning and end of recording. The input level is set to 1.0 at the start of recording if Punch In is activated; it is set to 0.0 at the end of recording if Punch Out is activated.