grumblepig Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Maybe it's eternal User Error on my part, but I do NOT understand Auto Punch in Logic. It seems to have a mind of its own as to when it comes on and where it wants to start and end. The song I was working on today needed a quick keyboard bit on the final chorus. I started recording, but saw Auto Punch had kicked in. I just went with it because it was going to be such an easy job. Turns out Auto Punch decided to punch out around bar 23,000. The song had previously ended at bar 97. Even sometimes when I give in to Auto Punch's insistence on being part of the act, I'll try to set an end point. This doesn't seem to phase our relentless friend. Is there a way to completely and totally disable Auto Punch in Prefs that I'm just oblivious to? Is there a way to physically remove the Auto Punch function? If I give up on Logic and go back to Pro Tools, will Auto Punch know? Will it follow me back to PT? Forgive my rather coffee-inspired frustration here, but I've been trying to understand and/or live with Auto Punch's mysterious ways forever and I'm not getting any closer to anything other than possible madness! Help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 You don't have Autopunch activated, so I have no idea what we're looking at or are supposed to see. You use Autopunch like this: If this does not work, post back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumblepig Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 Apologies for the vague screenshot. I posted that to show that my song had been extended - thanks to Auto Punch - by tens of thousands of measures. Here's a screenshot of my current Prefs. If I'm remembering correctly, when I've had Autopunch turned OFF in Prefs, it would still sometimes activate itself, but I wouldn't have access to it via the main panel as I do now. I'm more than happy to discover I'm doing something idiotic, but honestly, it's been months now of battling with Autopunch and I'm at a real loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 If I'm remembering correctly, when I've had Autopunch turned OFF in Prefs, it would still sometimes activate itself, but I wouldn't have access to it via the main panel as I do now. I'm not sure I can advise on something not even you are sure of remembering correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 are you working from a template? and, if so, do you have the same problem with a generic blank logic template?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumblepig Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 I don't generally work from templates. I wish I could better describe my problem, but that's part of the problem! I assume Autopunch is meant to behave as the user wishes, but my generally intuitive way of working really don't work with Autopunch, and neither can I make enough sense of the seemingly few options for control of Autopunch functions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 for now, you could delete the section you want to replace, duplicate the track, and just record on the new track... then move that new region to the original track. or something like that... (personally, i've never used autopunch, but i can see where it would be useful). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I'm not even sure if you want Auto Punch or not. If you do, you activate the AP button, drag the red range, similar to the orange Cycle range, and hit record. Like in the GIF I posted earlier. Can you get this to work ? If so, thst's all there is to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumblepig Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 I can do all that - I do use Autopunch sometimes by choice. I just don't understand why it seems to self-activate at times when I don't want it to, and I don't know why it sets a range I didn't specify. And with that said, I don't understand how to keep it from coming on when I don't wish it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I just don't understand why it seems to self-activate at times when I don't want it to, and I don't know why it sets a range I didn't specify. I you have a Marquee selection when you press record, Autopunch is automatically turned on and an Autopunch area matching the Marquee selection will automatically be created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumblepig Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 That sounds like part of what's going on. Any idea why, when recording an Instrument track the other day, Autopunch added 20,000 measures to the song? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 That sounds like part of what's going on. Any idea why, when recording an Instrument track the other day, Autopunch added 20,000 measures to the song? That could happen if you create a 1 pixel wide Marquee selection. Meaning that, basically, you just click the Marquee tool. Then that defines a punch in point but no punch out point. Which can be useful when you want to punch in at a specific location but don't know where you want to punch out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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