Re: [Audacity-devel] Recording and pause button

[Dave F. <dav...@at...>]

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 09:13 am, Tino Meinen wrote:
> So instead of starting a recording with one click on the record button,
> you would have to click first on the record button, and then the pause
> button. Two clicks instead of one sounds like a regression to me.
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> I've always considered using the pause button to start a recording
> confusing and counterintuitive.
> Most modern (hardware)-recorders now have the more convenient one-butto=
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> recording button: Just press the button and the recording starts.
> No need to use two fingers.

There may be other, practical reasons for it.  For example, I don't know =
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audacity does it though, you may first need to open the file you will be=20
streaming to.  That means you should open the file first, so if it fails =
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user can do something about it.  There may be other parts of the process =
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need to be initialized that I don't even know of.

If I just hit the record button and start jamming on my guitar, I may fin=
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myself finishing the song only to learn that it wasn't recorded because m=
y=20
tmp directory had the wrong permissions!

Also, I'm using Audacity in place of the traditional mastering tape deck,=
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I'm recording mixed signals from a hard drive recorder.  There is a lot o=
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space on the tracks on the recorder before the song starts.  It is better=
 for=20
me to start playback (after satisfying myself with the knobs, of course) =
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then hit the record button at the exact right time (the drummer says "3" =
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I hit record).  There is actually a second or more (or less) pause while=20
Audacity gets everything initialized to record.  Recording should start=20
*immediately* when I hit the button.

Personally, I prefer the two-click method.  It also prevents me from=20
accidentally hitting the record button while I'm doing other things, whic=
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could be disasterous depending on other factors.

It would certainly make a fine option, and I'd be willing to bet that if =
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asked 10 audio engineers you could likely get 10 completely different way=
s to=20
do it, so why not making it an option?  Such as "Press pause to record" o=
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something captioned that actually makes more sense than that.

Dave

> Other software recorders that I know of, all use this method as well: t=
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> start recording, you just press the button wich says: Record.
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