capturing a recording

Hi all
I'm doing a tute for Albion 1 and the guy is using pro tools. In PT he is showing how to 'capture a recording' via a keyboard shortcut, instead of recording it. He just plays a line and then hits a keyboard shortcut and it appears as a recorded piece. 
I don't see this option in Sonar and I'm wondering if it has a similar function but goes by another name?
 
Thanks

If a track is armed for recording in Sonar, typing R initiates recording. Does that help?

That could be "retrospective record". If its MIDI some DAWs will hold all incoming MIDI in a buffer and if one decides to keep it a simple key stroke will record it.. Cubase has that.



I put in a feature request for it a very long time ago.

slartabartfast
A useful feature if you frequently forget to hit record prior to recording. Is that a common mistake?

I think I'd be a bit embarrassed if I said"go" to the vocalist without running the transport 
 
But I can see it's usefullness if if you're just goofing around on a keyboard and come up with something good!

I've definitely had sessions running were all the lights were blinking red rather than solid (solid meant record). One of the guys asks me after the first or second tune and I'm like, oh right... :-)
 
It does happen.
 
It's a good reason for the big monitor that the band can see too so that they know if you've spaced something important.

Okay thanks guys - I tried posting earlier but got that error try later message. 
So it would appear that Sonar doesn't have that feature. The guy in the link I posted finds it helpful for working with the staff. He'll play while watching the music and then will hit a particular keyboard shortcut - set up for capturing - and voila! There be more music. 
 
Apart from playing something cool and wishing you recorded it, I don't get it' usefulness. I mean I could watch the staff with one recorded part and record whilst watching it...so I don't get it really. This composer finds it useful, so I was curious to try to find out why...

Studio One has this feature as well, it is called Pre record. It means that everything is recorded (audio or midi) for a maximum time though of one minute even before record is engaged. It defaults to off and the time can be set to any time up to a minute. (they might make it longer in future versions)
 
It is a very cool feature and it comes into its own if you are manually punching in for example and you are late. If it is on and set for a minute it means you have got everything for a minute prior to punching in. You may be playing back something and a musician may be noodling around thinking it is a rehearsal but in fact for the last minute it has all been captured.
 
All you have to do is engage record and at the end it is a simple matter of pulling the clip backwards to reveal the stuff that people thought was not recorded. A band or artist may start performing too soon even during a count-in or pre roll (happened to me a few times) but in fact the music will be recorded. It means you don't have to stop and start again.
 
If you think about there are many applications and uses for it. Speeding up workflow being one of them.
 
It is certainly not a deal breaker if a particular DAW did not have it and to be honest I did not even know that I had it in Studio One until I read about it. And I don't use it that much either (under normal conditions) but after using it and it saving me once or twice in a pressure situation I was very glad that feature was there in the end.