Hi…have just started with Audacity…am coming from garage band.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I’ve been searching the tutorials, manuals and forum and can’t find the answer and getting a little frustrated that something so simple is hard to find.
I just want to set the cursor at a spot to start recording from, other than the beginning of my other tracks.
Can’t seem to find any way to do that that doesn’t start playing from there. Can’t seem to find any “set record cursor” command or equivalent.
Yes. Crash Record. In analog land, you back up the tape to where you want to start and smash the red record button to start recording from that point. Audacity doesn’t have Crash Record.
You can have Append Record with Shift-R. That will take up recording at the end of the current track. You can select and delete everything after your proposed in point. That point will now become your new record point.
I think there’s another way to do it, but I need to look.
Because Audacity does not have it. You record from the cursor point or the start of the selection and you play from there too.
If it helped you could click where you want to play from, Edit > Region Save, click where you want to record from, Record, then Edit > Region Restore to move the editing cursor back to the position you saved it at. You can make shortcuts for those two commands in Keyboard Preferences.
However we have been talking about a Transport Region Lock and Transport Play From Lock that might record to that locked region or record from that locked position respectively (and also play accordingly if the “lock” was not removed).