DAWs should always be capturing our performances. why do we even have "record" button ?

[liquidsound]

It will be eventually implemented by every DAW against the complains of the Mozart(s)

It will!

[chk071]

It's dangerous. Evil DAW companies could monitor everything when a microphone is plugged in... your farts will be sold to China to support world takeover.

[Amberience]

I'd use this quite a lot. Most of my musical ideas are written when I'm not focusing on technology or computers or anything.

I write like I'm in a grotty practice room in the 1970's, and I record like I'm in 2022 with all the doohickies surrounding me.

If I mix the two up, music doesn't get done. That's how it is for me.

[anttimaatteri]

if you can't repeat your performance, it's probably shit. or you're not a musican.

i had to read some real shit here at kvr every now and then. but your post set a new mark.

[Dionysos]

Can't wait for this to be a thing in all the DAWs.

Happy accidents happen, and sometimes they're perfect just as they were, and hard to recreate. Screw the "not a musician" snobbery. Why recreate magic if you can capture it? I know that I play best when I'm not trying too hard.

Gol (creator of FL Studio) was a big fan of the idea, but he only implemented it for midi recording in FL due to technical constraints. (Though there is Edison's "audio logger" feature that constantly records a rolling buffer of X minutes in the background once set up.)

The record button has one important function... it turns on the metronome.

So with no record button does that mean you have a metronome going the whole time? If not, how do ones recordings get put to a tempo and timeline?

This point is only really relevant when recording something from scratch though. In that case, the DAW could try to guess the tempo from what was recorded. Otherwise you could always hit play and enable the metronome independently of the recording state. In either case, you'll be able to retrieve what you recorded and fit it into the timeline (or clip launcher) after the fact.

Sometimes I'm practicing. Sometimes I'm just goofing around, or testing sounds. Why would I record that? If I find something I like, I can always play it again and record that.

Why would you not record it? It'd just happen in the background, and the file discarded if you didn't capture it after a certain time limit. It's a convenience feature, one less thing to think about

[Hink]

if you can't repeat your performance, it's probably shit. or you're not a musican.

so you think if we all dont do things exactly as you we must be shit? I suggest you stop now and not even respond to this because I am not babysitting this thread too. Stay out of this thread plz.

for OP:
For the idea, I have songs with thousands of takes because that's how I do it, I would love this. TBH I am not selling a product here, I am a guitar player who loves to play. I am not after the same performance like was suggested, I am going where my heart and soul is taking me in that particular moment, that is my passion.

However I disagree with the idea that you lose inspiration, for me all those steps getting ready to play are inspiration in themselves, I am actually conditioned to this. It literally helps flip the switch in my mind, not much unlike authors who keep their desks exactly the same way to inspire creativity when you sit down to write YMMV

[greententacle]

if you can't repeat your performance, it's probably shit. or you're not a musican.

so you think if we all dont do things exactly as you we must be shit? I suggest you stop now and not even respond to this because I am not babysitting this thread too. Stay out of this thread plz.

for OP:
For the idea, I have songs with thousands of takes because that's how I do it, I would love this. TBH I am not selling a product here, I am a guitar player who loves to play. I am not after the same performance like was suggested, I am going where my heart and soul is taking me in that particular moment, that is my passion.

However I disagree with the idea that you lose inspiration, for me all those steps getting ready to play are inspiration in themselves, I am actually conditioned to this. It literally helps flip the switch in my mind, not much unlike authors who keep their desks exactly the same way to inspire creativity when you sit down to write YMMV

no, didn't said that. but probably you are.

[Hink]

[Weasel-Boy]

I'd use this quite a lot. Most of my musical ideas are written when I'm not focusing on technology or computers or anything.

I use Retrospective Record on Cubase all the time. It has turned out to be a very handy feature. But it is MIDI only.

I like the idea of an optional “retrospective recording audio” mode for a selected track (or tracks) when you simply push PLAY to rehearse or just jam. But the system has be designed to stop recording in the background when the sequence is stopped (like it does in Cubase). There is a limit to storage, after all.

Doesn’t seem like something too hard to implement…I’m all for it.

[zfy]

I just put MRecorder (it's free) on my master, click the record button and off I go. I don't get individual stems but if I just want the stereo mix it works fine.

[telecharge]

Retrospective recording is something I've been meaning to look into, but I wasn't sure which DAWs supported it. Some kind soul (a human being with feelings, no less!) on the Reaper forum posted this list last year - https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=258311

[jamcat]

Studio One has it for MIDI

https://s1manual.presonus.com/Content/F ... Record.htm

[rod_zero]

came across this short article, and it really made me think why don't DAWs all have this way of recording ?

In theory I like the idea.

The record button has one important function... it turns on the metronome.

So with no record button does that mean you have a metronome going the whole time? If not, how do ones recordings get put to a tempo and timeline?

ableton Note detects the tempo, i think Live tries to fit it into the tempo of the project

[RunBeerRun]

Yesterday I recorded myself tuning up and browsing around and selecting plugins to put on.


I listen to my music on an MP3 player and love the human feel

[pdxindy]

The record button has one important function... it turns on the metronome.

This point is only really relevant when recording something from scratch though. In that case, the DAW could try to guess the tempo from what was recorded. Otherwise you could always hit play and enable the metronome independently of the recording state.

I was assuming that always recording meant whether transport was playing or not.