Count In to Playback

Hi Teksonik- I just voted, but not sure it's something I'd personally get a lot of use out of. (I tend to capture everything in case I get it right the first time. Unlikely - still hoping Lol). But I see the value for practice prior to recording. Just curious which DAW you're using that has the feature.

Brando
Hi Teksonik- I just voted, but not sure it's something I'd personally get a lot of use out of. (I tend to capture everything in case I get it right the first time. Unlikely - still hoping Lol). But I see the value for practice prior to recording. Just curious which DAW you're using that has the feature.

Thanks for voting! I'm using Reaper over Sonar for my guitar work simply because of the Count In to Playback feature.  Like I said I use it every day.  Sometimes you just need to practice or work on chops. Being able to get a count in to get the groove before a drum part starts for example is pretty useful. Yes you can insert empty bars at the start but what if I want to practice from a certain section of the song ? In Reaper I simply hit Play from any part of the song and get a count in......once I've used it I can't live without it........

Teksonik

charlyg
My metronome does both? Or am I clueless as to what you mean?

Unless this feature has been added in a version later than Sonar X3 you can have the Metro run while playing or recording but you can only have Count In To Record. You can't have Count In to Playback. In other words if you're in Record Mode you get 1,2,3,4 Record (or two bars if you want etc). In Play Mode you just get Play....no time to get ready to play....no time to get the groove. The Metro page in X3 is a little misleading in the way it's worded. I'd love to find out this has been added in a later version of Sonar.
 

SPlat is still the same - count in to record only, can select metronome for both play and record.
Thanks for the explanation regarding Reaper - good luck on the feature request.
 

Brando
SPlat is still the same - count in to record only, can select metronome for both play and record.
Thanks for the explanation regarding Reaper - good luck on the feature request.

Thanks for letting me know that Count In to Playback has still not been added to Sonar.  I would upgrade as it's that important to me.  Oh well maybe in a future version......

Thank you !

Bob - as Teksonik said in his post, above:

"Being able to get a count in to get the groove before a drum part starts for example is pretty useful. Yes you can insert empty bars at the start but what if I want to practice from a certain section of the song ? In Reaper I simply hit Play from any part of the song and get a count in......once I've used it I can't live without it........"

The request is more about the ease and versatility of being able to get the count-in for any section of a song. Given tempo changes, breaks, drum rolls etc in the project, I can understand why just a metronome tick at the desired groove would be preferred. That's why I (currently) would be more apt to use record (comping) now to get the metronome count in, and inevitably discard most takes. Would be a nice feature to have.

Voted. Would love this feature for practising sections that occur right after a tempo or time signature change. Hope they incorporate this idea soon!

robert_e_bone
I just set loop points to 1 or 2 measures ahead of where I am going to come in, which gives me plenty of time to get ready.  Then, it will start of playing ahead of the target measure, play through however many measures are in the loop, and will return to playback again - ahead.
 
Wouldn't something like the above give you what you seek now?
 
Bob Bone
 

No, otherwise I wouldn't asking for Count In to Playback.  Someone makes the same type of workaround suggestion every time I post this request and no it's not the same. ..........like I said once you use Count in to Playback it becomes very valuable.