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By orionka Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:01 pm
Hi,
I‘m using an external audio interface and checked the recording latency.
When I record the metronome back through my external input into an audio track I see the ticks align with the grid.
However when I stop recording, my clip automatically gets trimmed at the start so that the first tick dissapears. This is by an amount of around 500 samples according to the sample edit page. This would swallow any transient at the start of my recording.

Why is this?
Can I disable this?
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By EnochLight Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:24 pm
orionka wrote:Hi,
I‘m using an external audio interface and checked the recording latency.
When I record the metronome back through my external input into an audio track I see the ticks align with the grid.
However when I stop recording, my clip automatically gets trimmed at the start so that the first tick dissapears. This is by an amount of around 500 samples according to the sample edit page. This would swallow any transient at the start of my recording.

Why is this?
Can I disable this?


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By orionka Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:01 pm
MPC Audio Track Recording sets sample start automatically to around 500 samples.
If you want the actual recording you have to turn off grid lock and manually align each recording to where it was recorded.
If you play it as is, any transient at the beginning would get swallowed and the recording would not be in sync with your MIDI data in your sequence.
By GeeGee Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:58 pm
This may be a complete red herring, but are you sure it's not a function of the signal threshhold you set for the start of sampling/recording? Perhaps try a lower threshhold so that recording starts as soon as the transients become audible?