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steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:or the <-------> in the Timeline which appears under the Selection Region in the Timeline. The Manual calls the <-------> under the Selection Region in the Timeline a "playback region".

That is the usage that I think should be called "transport region"

OK, I'm fine with changing that after 2.1.0.

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:but does "Play Region" in the Edit menu then become Transport Region?

You mean "Play Region > Lock/Unlock"?
Currently that is a playback only feature - it is only locking the playback region and not the recording region.
I can think of many uses for locking the playback region, but have never encountered a need to lock the recording region - have you?

Yes I mean "Play Region > Lock/Unlock".

Although as you say, there is no Quick-Record, Play Region > Lock can lock the recording region if that locked region is the selection region, the same as it can lock the playback region (as currently called) if that selection is used for playback. Locking the Selection Region could be more useful than now if you could reselect a locked region after changing it.

Quick-Record and locking a Quick-Record region "could" be useful if you wanted to retain a selection region. I've not really thought about it.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:Play Region > Lock can lock the recording region if that locked region is the selection region, the same as it can lock the playback region (as currently called) if that selection is used for playback.

I'm not quite following you.
Do you mean that "Play Region > Lock" could "lock the recording region" (if we changed the current behaviour)?

Isn't it quite useful that "Lock Play Region" allows a "play" region to be saved while recording a different region (or doing anything else in a different selection)?

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:At this point I think we would need to make some design decisions. Does the user want to make unattended recording OR does the user want hands-on audio editing.

Well this particular piece of functionality is Vaughan's baby (IIRC he was commissioned to write it) - and he always intended into be a hands-off unattended recording - and these days I am minded to support that view.

I have spent some time today capturing some key TR GUI upgrade discussion points from this thread in the Wiki proposal - see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Propo ... ts#Details

In particular I have come around to Gale's checkbox idea for setting automatic Save on/off.

Peter.

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:Play Region > Lock can lock the recording region if that locked region is the selection region, the same as it can lock the playback region (as currently called) if that selection is used for playback.

I'm not quite following you.
Do you mean that "Play Region > Lock" could "lock the recording region" (if we changed the current behaviour)?

I meant what I wrote, "can" (but it isn't all that useful). Drag a selection in the waves, then Edit > Play Region > Lock. Record, then the recording will be made in the locked region.

steve wrote:Isn't it quite useful that "Lock Play Region" allows a "play" region to be saved while recording a different region (or doing anything else in a different selection)?

Definitely useful.

But what I was saying about the locked region is that you can't easily make a selection corresponding to it. It could be useful if the edges of the play region respected Boundary Snap Guides when dragging a selection.


Gale