Please unlink the click off automatically changing the tempo if recording

[jimmydeer]

This feature is really driving me nuts. I don't like hearing the metronome once I start recording (always use beats), so I turn it off after I record something to hearback without a click. hit record again (commonsense reflex from any other daw) to stop bc no count-in, the tempo resets to whatever the clip length was before I deleted it and I have to do several undo steps-workflow vibe assassin

This seems like a somewhat specialized feature (I would never use) so could it be moved somewhere else?

I think stuff like changing the recording time should be on top menus instead of 3 clicks in and something like this could go elsewhere

Or any easy fix would be to have a "only click for preroll" option like the metronome in reaper

I'm rusty as I haven't used this for a bit and having to relearn everything reminds me it could be easier to get going

[helgoboss]

Understand. So your scenario is that you want the metronome during count-in but at zero you want it to stop because some other clip already provides the tempo reference?

[jimmydeer]

Precisely, thanks.

[helgoboss]

Okay. I think an "only click during count-in phase" solution makes sense, no matter what. Making "tempo detection recordings" not the default is probably also a good idea. After the final release, I'm planning to add a menu to the smart-record button for picking various recording modes. Maybe I could move the tempo detection option in there.

[jimmydeer]

Great thanks!

Record button mode menu is an excellent idea-intuitive place to have options

[helgoboss]

@jimmydeer This will be in version 2.16.15.

I have thought about this quite much and implemented it a bit different than initially intended:

Tempo detection is still the default

Doing tempo detection when the metronome is off is still the default behavior. That helps users to discover this feature, and there's a tutorial video already out there which would turn invalid if I'd change the default.

You can turn it off

However, you can now turn off this special behavior in the matrix recording settings:

There's guidance on how to turn it off

Moving the mouse over the red text in the title bar "If you record a clip now, Playtime will initiate a tempo detection recording!" reveals instructions how this behavior can be turned off:

The setting is instance-specific, not global

As most other non-appearance/performance-related settings, this new "Allow tempo detection recordings" setting is not global! @jimmydeer For you, this is inconvenient at first sight, because you never want tempo detection recordings. However, in the same release I'm going to introduce a streamlined way to use Playtime templates, see #1348.

What about "Click only during count-in phase"?

I thought a lot about this as well and came to the conclusion that it's best to always click during count-in recordings, even if the metronome is not on. A count-in recording without metronome doesn't really make sense.

In addition, I have opened idea #1349, which is about introducing the possibility to click only during recording but not during playback. Not something I strictly need, but up for discussion.

[helgoboss]

Implemented in #1339.