I've graduated from DA-88's, Adats, and 2inch over 3 years
ago now, and punching in has become a thing of the past
once you're on a hard disk recording system. Occassionally
I have a session with my DA-88's and hate having to pay
that close attention to punching in and out on a vocal
parts. Punching in is accomplished very easily like this.
Take your vocal part (or whatever you want to punch in and
out on) and Trim the end and beginning of the events where
you want to do a punch in at. Now create a new track.
This new track will be your recording track. Now just hit
record sometime before the spot you want to punch in at.
Keep doing this til you get the take you want.....you can
even setup a loop record and walk away, and wait for the
producer to say..."That's the take". Once you get what you
want just select that take and move it into the track you
wanted to punch in on. The audio engineering term for this
is "creating a donut"...make since? The hole's in the
middle :-)

David W. Ruby wrote:
>>At first i fought it,but after using for quite awhile
>>now,it is better to me as well and I do enjoy it.:-)
>>
>>Brett Crockett wrote:
>>>>Vegas doesn't do punch-ins the "normal" way you would
on
>>a
>>>>tape machine - where you push a button or a punch-in
>>pedal
>>>>to start recording. What you need to do is create a
new
>>>>event over an existing track, select the new event and
>>not
>>>>the old track, place the cursor before the new event
and
>>>>hit CTRL-R or the record button. The new recorded
>>material
>>>>will "punch-in" into the new event. This should be
>>covered
>>>>in the manual in detail.
>>>>You'll probably get a lot of complaints from users here
>>who
>>>>think that this is a horrible solution and inferior to
>>>>a "real" punch-in. Given the fact that a "real" punch
in
>>>>would have to travel through a keyboard (or other
device)
>>>>and the Windows OS, into Vegas and then that subroutine
I
>>>>don't think it would be as easy and reliable as the
>>current
>>>>method which I really really like. (I've punched in
>>>>on "real" recorders for years and don't miss it, nope,
>>not
>>>>at all. Especially since I can loop over the punch in
>>>>event indefinitely and get non-destructive punch-in
>>takes).
>>>>Sorry for all the "real"s.
>>>>Brett
>>>>
>>>>kingkab wrote:
>>>>>>yes would some one please tell me how to setup vegas
>>pro
>>>>to
>>>>>>punch in and out. I have read the intire manual and
it
>>>>only
>>>>>>mentions that it can do this. I have done this befor
>>but
>>>>>>can't remember it becouse it's been a while. please
>>help.