Cue up sample record for first pass of sequence?

Obviously still getting my head around this.

I like the 'Seq' record length option, but I can't find a way to trigger sample record on the first pass of the sequence.

It's an issue when I have a longish song (112 bars at 87bpm) and want to overlay some new performances on new pads.

The only options I can find are:
1) Manually trigger sample recording & sequence play at the same time*
2) play sequence, hit sample record/pad, wait for the loop

Does anyone know a way to cue up the sample/pad recording so that it'll kick in straight away (and ideally with a count-in), or is this currently not possible?

(*I haven't actually checked properly whether this has any issues for sample length - ie as one or the other 'start trigger' will probably be very slightly ahead of the other, does this cause any issues? If the record threshold is set as low as possible, it seems to trigger straight away once the target pad is hit, so as long as the record length is quantized then I think it should be OK.)

Posted in haste: It does seem to quantize the length, so setting the record threshold to minimum allows the pad and sequence play to be triggered at the same time for recording a long pass.

There's no count-in this way though. One of a hundred little tweaks that would be nice to have, but I'm enjoying this little machine a lot, and I will happily continue to use it as-is.

It reminds me of using a very simple 4-track recorder (Fostex X-26) back in the late 80s: does the job, no distractions. Work fast, get stuff done.

reminds me of using a very simple 4-track recorder (Fostex X-26) back in the late 80s: does the job, no distractions. Work fast, get stuff done.

Yeah I agree. Simple and to the point