3.15 Overdubbing and Punch Recording
You can go over an existing track to re-record sections with which you are not satisfied, to correct perhaps just a few notes of an instrument, or a line or two of a vocal.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 3 Recording Audio and MIDI Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
You can go over an existing track to re-record sections with which you are not satisfied, to correct perhaps just a few notes of an instrument, or a line or two of a vocal. Use punch recording for this. You can play back in your headphones previously recorded material along with any other tracks while you record. At the point where you want recording to begin, the track on which you are recording will cut out, and the recording will begin. At another point specified by you, the recording will stop, and the existing recording will come back in. The technique can be applied with both audio and MIDI items. MIDI is discussed later in this chapter when looped time selection recording is also explained.
Note: This technique involves creating more than one take for a track, and then comping the required output from whichever takes you prefer. REAPER makes available two ways you can do this – traditional takes and media item lanes. The former is less complex: the latter is more powerful and offers more options. Throughout this chapter we will focus on the takes method: media item lanes will be covered in a later chapter.