In out markers don't really need to get erased, they just get moved about. You can use the Cancel button. The cancel button can be used for eliminating all types of markers In/Out; A/B; place markers.
You can see what marker was last passed as the tracks move along. Look at the top left of the diplay and the current marker is displayed. This is visible on all screens and stays static until you pass another marker, then the symbol changes. also along the bottom of the screen that displays all the recorded tracks (track button on left of machine) the markers are shown where they have been placed. so they appear and disappear as the track rolls along.
Pressing any of the A?B or In/Out marker buttons will take you to that spot directly, so it is easy to locate those guys. The regular markers must be advanced through one at a time by consecutive taps of the marker button. The 2400 has a convenient feature of allowing specific markers to be set with the number pad. Hold the Set key and hit any of the numbers and a marker will be dropped there. So then you can move directly to that marker from anywhere in the file with the hit of the number. save the push push of the regular marker button.
I often set 9 as the file end, 1 to the spot for the downbeat at the intro. the numbers between I sometimes use by making a numbered markers at the same point as my In and Out points. then if i make the mistake of hitting record without the autopunch engaged, then it is just a matter of hitting undo, and then use the numbered markers to go to the A Point and then likewise the B. This would be useful if you were to do a punchin that would require playing back several times to "get it right" or "get it Better".
As you probably know, the best way to judge a punch in is to record, turn the autopunch off, press play, judge, hit undo if unsatifactory, re-engage auto punch, redo.
If you forget to press undo - no big deal, that just adds to the "file Clutter" and advances the Undo list, but if you forget to re-engaged the autopunch, then you get into the movement of the In/out points. That is when the other types of markers (regular or numbered) will save a lot of time, if you remember to set them up as a precaution.
The jog wheel is very useful for fine tuning punch in points. You can listen to a repetitive clip either before or after the jog point (set in preferences) and the jog point is movable with the jog wheel. so you can get the exact location through listening for the first "click" of an entry/exit or a specific word. Likewise to set Out points. The wave display is often useful to get even finer tuned.
Harkening back to the benefits of click track. If you have your song working is some reasonable fashion to the click, and the tempo map is set to the proper tempo #, you are able to easily establish Start and Stop times when editing and copying. Rather than doing repeated punchins, sometimes the same phrase or piece or note occurs elsewhere within the track and it is easier to move that section than to set up and perform a punchin. the click-based structure facilitates much easier editing, helping find places at the beginnning and ends of complete phrases or lines or sections within the song's arrangement using the bar and beat number fields that is available on all editing screens. All the tracks can be copied at once to, if so desired, making substitution of a chorus (for E.G) that reappears several times in a song. Perhaps there is one delivery you favour. So you can use that each time it comes around, or perhaps move your "best delivery" to the last time it will be heard ..... I could not get along without using a click for all these editing reasons. Not being a competent musician, able to re-perform "exactly" each time, the editing power is necessary to achieve satisfaction with progress before the "bogged down" factor sets in.m the measure/beat field create an much more comfortable and accessible workflow.
But it is still possible to edit successfully only with punch ins, as you are trying to do. I am sure you will find your reason. Developing workflow habits when using the auto punch is essential. Problems usually boil down to In/Out marker positioning. Let me know how it goes.
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