Newbie recording issue...

[UNITY1968]

Thanks for the add. Newbie with Waveform. I just constructed a midi drum track, converted it to audio. Then, armed a different audio track and recorded a guitar, playing along with the drum track. When I finished that recording I played it back and discovered the guitar track audio was blank until finally starting way into the drum track. The guitar audio track was ended long before the guitar part was finished. I discovered I could drag the end of the guitar track to the right and reveal the remaining guitar audio. What the heck am I doing wrong??? Simply want to record along with previously recorded tracks and not have to struggle re-positioning the new track to sync with the existing tracks. Thanks for any help offered!

[Watchful]

First, a most sincere welcome!

Immediate thought: something is offsetting your recording start point somehow. The IN and OUT markers would be my first suspect, but you said the entire guitar clip was there--just offset.

I don't know anyway to do this accidentally: typically, you need to drag a recorded clip with your mouse to offset two different clips.

Is this happening consistently? We might need a screenshot of the result (not a video--just a screenshot).

[Peter Widdicombe]

There ARE actually 2 things that could affect this - not sure how either would have been set, but...

In both cases make sure you have the "properties" pane open at the bottom. You'll want to do this anyway, as there is SO MUCH useful information down there... If you see a line with an up-arrow lower left, click on it to open up the "useful" properties pane.

1. Click on the name of the input device left of the track. You should then see a "time adjust" - make sure it's 0 or a small number. This is a compensation for latency, if new tracks are off by a fraction of a second. Not for seconds or minutes...

2. Clip offset. Click on the header bar of a CLIP. Get to know that term... A track is the entire horizontal space. Clips are the audio or MIDI sections that sit IN the track. They MAY actually be the whole length of the track, or not. Hint - you can record separate audio clips and dump them all on one track, side by side. Or overlapped. Or looped. You can copy, cut'n'paste them. Play a 4- or 12-bar pattern and then drop them in anywhere in a song. Or split a clip into multiples (set the cursor at a logical cut point and press /), and put them in in any order... Or highlight the L top center, and then take the little > top right of the clip and drag right to LOOP the clip a few times, or for the whole track.

Anyway - off topic. Each clip also has a start/stop/length/offset. Not sure what offset would be used for (possibly to ignore the first part of a clip without actually cutting it up...?) but normally it would be 0 as well, unless you have played with markers, or doing some shifting of contents of what is played IN the clip.

[dysjoint]

Make sure 'Punch' is not on, if it is you will only record between the I and O blue loop markers. So, nothing until you cross the first blue line, [then record], then nothing again after you cross the second blue line.

[UNITY1968]

Thanks folks! Don't know what I did to create the issue, but after saving the edit, shutting down Waveform and then bringing it back up I am no longer having the issue. A classic "did you reboot?" IT solution!