Record: Receives Only... Beyond the Limits!

Right now we can record a track's input and output. Right now we can monitor track media when recording (schwa said it'll be back :) ). Right now we can preserve PDC delayed monitoring in recorded items. We can even disable recording but monitor our input! WOW Reaper has incredible and very useful options when recording... it gives us the ability to do "almost" everything when recording but it still misses one thing in its options...: Record: receives only This mode will give us the ability to record only what's coming through receives... not track's input or output but only receives. You may say "what's this useful for?"... well, let's see 2 examples (I'm sure some other users will come up with other examples too): * Insert a track, right-click on its record button or meter and choose your audio input (stereo/mono). Now insert another track. Send track 1 to track 2. Insert your favorite guitar amp VST in track 1. Arm track 2,set it to FIPM and choose Record: receives only. What are you going to record in track 2?... Track 1 output only!!!! yes we can do this now if we set our track 2 to record its output but not when there are media inserted in track 2 and you're monitoring them... why? Because all your new items will have previous recorded items information if they are located together (one above/below/close the other). *Imagine we have a reverb buss that's receiving from several tracks (very usual). Now we want to go recording each one of those receives to get stems for each reverb, with that mode we wouldn't need to mute every item in the buss each time we want to record another reverb stem. In other DAW's we have different tracks types and that limits our creativity sometimes or even slows us down. In Reaper we have only one type of track for everything and that's one of the most amazing features it has. So we don't need an "Input Track" type to accomplish such tasks... we only need a new record mode: RECEIVES ONLY. Record a track's output into another track and monitor previously recorded items at the same time (overdub)... isn't this amazing and mind-blowing? A new approach to recording in Reaper. Please

???????????????? i don't get it

I get it... You are essentially trying to sneak an input channel in under the radar. :D sneaky boy. cheeky boy. In cubendo, you have this thing call an input bus, on on which you can insert and print VST fx - if you'd wanna do that ;). Workarounds sort of exist for this in reaper, for those who want to live-print VST output, but these workarounds break proper lane/take functionality and especially FIPM lane take functionality. The second of which produces a record what you hear effect IIRC. I will never print VST put put like that, but I say, nonetheless, what the heck allow receives as an rec-input option... it could be useful! greetings .t

will this work with midi? it would be nice to not to have to use midi yoke and such to record the output of EzPlayer.

makes sense. +1

Here's a video where you can see its benefits: Right now we could use the pre-roll feature in REAPER when recording but if the singer needs to start singing again above the last word he said our new item will be destroyed because it will contain too that last word of the previously recorded item.

+1 for Receives as an Input source for a track. It took me quite a while to record from one track to another, until I stumbled across the Record: output modes" on the receiving track and that always seemed a bit odd. This is related:

Well explained Pete. One of the best ideas to remove lots of problems in one go. Gets my vote easily.

This is essential for multi-track recording. At the moment we can't record multi-track items directly from hardware inputs, so we need to create a multi-track buss first. "Recording Receives only" would make it possible to monitor multi-track recordings with fx easily without having them printed on the actual recorded items. ++1 for having this in 3.x (x > 0)

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