Cancel record and re-record button
Hi, I just started playing with my new iRig midi and FCB1010. Is there any way to while I am recording a track with my guitar, and I make a mistake, to press a button which will stop the recording (without it playing back) and on the next beginning of the loop to start the recording again. I tried many options but can't seem to find it.
This would be crucial if I want to bring this on stage. Thanks
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You can assign re record and clear track to a midi binding for your FCB.
However,this will affect the entire track you are working with. So, if you make a mistake whilst overdubbing the only option is to get rid of everything (on that track) and start the track again.
If you look up A Tasty Pixel on Facebook there is a poll for requested features - Michael, the developer is very engaged - and 'undo' is the most requested at the moment. Hopefully this will be a feature in the future.
In the meantime, I find that there are so many available tracks that I don't overdub heaps anyway. If I mess up I just redo the track and not the other tracks I've built up.
Hope this helps
It affecting my whole track is not the problem. The problem is, it needs to be the selected track first. Meaning pressing "select next track" many times before. Then when i make a recording mistake i need to "cancel record", which will automatically play back the failed recording. Then i have to quickly mute it, and double press the "cancel record" to rerecord, which will make the loop record the same length as the the previous failed record (usually 1/4th, 2/4 or 3/4th of the original loop length).
Adding an extra binding to clear track doesn't really improve functionality, and also, the fcb1010 just has so many buttons. (i'm switching between 2 banks already).
A "cancel current record, delete, and record again on next loop" would be the solution.
I think the problem might be that rerecord doesn't cancel in-progress recordings - rather, it just stops recording and starts playback. This is probably the wrong behaviour: It should clear the track immediately and schedule recording for the next cycle. I'm gonna work on this.
Re the selection thing, one suggestion has been to have the selection change automatically based on other actions, such as recording, muting, or otherwise modifying a loop. Michael has said this would require a bit of figuring, since it would be hard to figure out which actions should "intuitively" cause the loop to be selected.
Speaking of which - the next version should do this. It's already automatically selecting tracks that're recorded, and seems to work decently.