You can already instruct Cubase to automatically start recording at the left locator and stop recording at the right locator. Apparently it does is whether Punch-In is activated or not. You can even add a count-in with the metronome. So what is it that the Punch In / Punch Out does, in addition to …

It enable recording even if you are in playback mode. Useful for retake of same parts may times. You need to move them away from the locators…

With punch-in/punch-out, you have it in playback mode, then it automatically changes over to record at punch-in, then back to playback when it reaches punch-out. It’s especially nice if you have this embedded in a larger playback loop. Then you get a new take on each pass thru the loop. The traditi…

Greg has just made a video [How to Set up the Punch In and Punch Out in Cubase | Q&A with Greg Ondo] “In this video Greg Ondo looks at how to set up punch in and punch out in Cubase and how to use punch points. With punch ins, you can automatically record enable tracks, which is a trie…

It’s when we used to record a thing called audio tracks

A result of Punch is for example the very early 80’s, running 2 new 32 track 3M digital machines synced, at over 100k each, it quickly made session and studio musicians extremely lazy. Think of it as sort of the beginning of the end, and life has never been the same since.

Really, Punch in / out points are separate from locator points so that you can use the locators to set up a larger loop and punch in and out for a small section within that loop.

What is the purpose of Punch In/Punch Out?

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TavernSenses March 13, 2018, 8:31pm 3

Doesn’t recording with the left-right locators also happen in playback mode?