Fairlight Playback

I'd love for that to stop when there are no more clips to play. Like it does on the CUT and EDIT pages.

But Jim, playback is forever...



+1, good idea!

I'd love for that to stop when there are no more clips to play. Like it does on the CUT and EDIT pages.

This is standard behaviour in DAW. But I don't know why?

I'd love for that to stop when there are no more clips to play. Like it does on the CUT and EDIT pages.

This is standard behaviour in DAW. But I don't know why?

No, not every DAW. My Sonic system will continue playing far past the last clip until stopped. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Nuendo will do the same.

Pro Tools does not stop either.

Hmm, so it's an industry-wide design flaw, eh?

So let BMD lead the revolution, I say.

As wise people say, instead of wanting to bend the system, learn the philosophy.

What point in playing back...nothing?

If the transport is in playback mode, it plays back. Regardless of whether there is content there or not. Same thing on my tape machine, for what it's worth.

The end of a timeline is the analog of the end of a cassette.

That stops playback.

Not so. The end of the timeline is the end of the first recording on the cassette. There are probably more recordings to follow and the cassette will run to the end of the tape.

I was referring to my reel to reel machine, although to be fair it does stop when the tape runs off the reel, as most Studers do. Some of the other brands will keep running until you hit "stop", even with no more tape.

Frankly I don't see the problem here. It takes less than half a second to stop playback, if you have the stop mode set to return to the last position playback was started, you're done, if you have it disabled a quick Shift-Z will fit your timeline to the window and with one click you're back wherever you wanted to be.

No?

No problem as far as I'm concerned. To me this is the way its always been.

[Peter Chamberlain]

Consider
we need to wait for the Reverbs to tail off.. how long are they?
there can also be external signals coming in on tracks in Thru mode. when do they finish?

we need to wait for the Reverbs to tail off.. how long are they?

I would presume as long as the clip.

You're suggesting that audio can play without a clip underneath the playhead?

we need to wait for the Reverbs to tail off.. how long are they?

I would presume as long as the clip.

You're suggesting that audio can play without a clip underneath the playhead?

Peter has a good point. Indeed reverb tails can and do extend past the physical clip boundary (which is why most DAWs have "add buffer at end for reverb tails on bounce" or something similar).