Hello people, Sorry is this has been addressed before but I did try searching. I'm wondering (and I don't know if I'm going about this the best way possible but...) is there a good way to make cakewalk continue to record silent space at the end of an Instrument clip for the sake of keeping a loop accurate in it's timing? [e.g.: from the last beat/note back to the first in the loop] I'm not currently using any external equipment, just my computer keyboard with VSTs.
What's currently happening is, once record is activated it'll start recording once it picks up a note/beat/keypress. This is desirable at the beginning of a recording since you don't need a bunch of nonsense silence and you want to record precisely when you want to "drop in". However my issue is at the end, when you want your current recording to loop, it is desirable to punch stop recording precisely when the first beat/note/keypress in a loop would be played again. Much like a loop station would start the beginning of a loop again once stop record is punched. A lot of times this means that you need to record rests or silence at the end of the last beat/note/keypress however if you hit stop record after your last keypress and there's any amount of silence between the last recorded note and the end of the clip it automatically gets cut off.
The best remedy I've found for this so far (besides having to meticulously stretch clip or loop bounds) is to play the first beat of the loop again at the end of the clip and just cut it off afterwards, otherwise it's just really annoying to get timing precise between the last and first beats of the loop. There's another way, which is to hold the key for the duration of the rest, but both this method and the previously described one cause some inconveniences in creating more complex recordings and keeping the workflow smooth and quick.
I know, get a loop station right? I would love to, can't afford it. I do pretty well with what I have but just thought I'd throw this out there if anyone has any ideas or methods they use. I could've sworn at one time it did keep the silence at the end of my instrument tracks, but I don't know what I did. I can see how that could be an undesirable effect but I kinda wish it was an option to easily enable and disable.