Playhead freezes when pressing record button?

If I am already playing in my project and hit record, a region will start being recorded as normal. However, if the playhead is paused and I press record, the record button is activated as red but doesn’t actually start playing to record anything.
Thoughts?

Hi,

Probably Precount is enabled. In the Transport Panel on the side of Metronome/Click, extend the Metronome area. The 2nd button is Precount.

Precount was enabled. However, even after disabling it, the record is still frozen unless I press spacebar, where it then starts playing/recording instantly. Any other thoughts?

Is the External Sync disabled?

Fixed it!

It was enabled. I disabled it, then went to “Project Synchronization Setup” and switched from “VST System Link” to “MIDI Timecode.” Thank you.