Pressing Punch In cycle button behaving strangely

[Soundhound]

Here's a weird one. I'm assuming I invoked some odd thing without knowing. When I press the red Punch In/Out cycle button in the transport controls, it doesn't bring up that light red cycle band in the timeline. Instead, it makes the green cycle band fatter.

 

I checked this in another project, and it behaves normally there.

 

Don't know if any of this is relevant, but: The project I'm working in developed some problems while I was recording a midi track. I was trying using the 'create take folder'. I'd experienced problems with that, and hadn't tried using it in a long time, but came across a thread here where some people were talking about using it, so I thought I'd give it a go. Sure enough, I started getting audio glitches, and had to restart.

 

I also used time machine to go back to a saved version of this project, that was saved before the problem with the audio occured. But now there's this strange punch in cycle behavior.

 

Gremlins? Evil spirits? Operator error?

[Eric Cardenas]

Sounds like it already is engaged and is being disengaged.

Try this.

Make sure that the cycle are is represented by the "thick" green area.

Use the marque tool to drag a selection over the area that you want to record.

Press record.

[Soundhound]

That is what was going on, thank you Eric. For some reason the red punch in/out cycle bar wasnt showing. Turning it on and off made the green cycle band get smaller and larger, as it does normally, to accommodate the punch in band.

 

I subsequently ran into some other problems with this project file today. I think it got corrupted when it crashed. I imported the tracks into a new empty project and all seems well now.

[Eric Cardenas]

You're most welcome!

 

Thank you for chiming back in with your solution.