Recording technology baffles me

[DCCougar]

Originally Posted by Doug Young

I've seen books that never even mentioned creating an actual audio track and recording a real instrument until like chapter 15!

When I started, ALL I wanted to do was get an audio track recorded. I'd have to just skip to Chapter 15!

[b1j]

Originally Posted by DCCougar

^^^^ This! VERY helpful when cutting/copying/pasting. Then you can record a few takes and pick out the best sections to put into a final combined track....

Yes, a grid makes things easier for sure. However, I’m going to record a piece that will have something into phrases, so I can’t use a grid. I’ll rely on bend markers to align parts.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Chipotle

If you are going to edit, it certainly is easier to set up a project with a tempo grid. Then you can slice and dice snapped to the grid and everything will line up. You can still do the same without a grid, it's just more difficult.

I think they're referring to the fact that you can see clips more clearly in a DAW than on tape. I suppose it can be a shift from thinking in terms of one linear track to having multiple clips you can cut, copy, paste and move.

Maybe a comparison is Reaper's old "takes" system, or having separate takes on separate tracks, to a full-blown swipe-comping system. They don't do anything different in the end, but once you get figure out and get used to swipe comping it makes the world so much easier. Think of it in terms of workflow differences, rather than underlying functionality differences.

Guess it depends on exactly what kind of editing one is talking about, and if we are thinking or talking about the same thing or different things. And then there can also be a difference in how DAWs perform certain workflows and the terminology they use to describe that workflow and or a simple difference in personal workflows . Now to be sure Pro Tools has a click that is synced to a tempo grid based on the set BPM (as I showed earlier ) That said

Of course you can simply select "Grid" in PT and any selection boundaries you make regardless of where you swipe will be snapped to the nearest grid line for horizontal editing in the same track for example . But since I don't really copy and paste audio within the same track I don't think about snapping to grid that much. Also most of my recording is done in "Slip Mode" not "Grid Mode" and for much of what I record I don't use a click either

And I guess I just don't worry about snapping to grid for the kind of editing I do because PT will automatically promote any playlist selection (without it having to snap to a grid) vertically to the main comp playlist or vertically up or down between track takes and they will be correct in the time line (without setting up a tempo map or snapping the selection to the grid) ... So for that kind editing there is no more or less difficulty setting up a tempo grid or not .. But agin it no doubt depends on exactly what you are doing and or what your DAW is capable of doing automatically ???