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Arming Tracks

• Select the tracks you want to record from
• This is remembered so you don't have to do it each time
• Check the VU meter to ensure audio is coming through from these sources
• For some interfaces, like UAD Apollo, you can record both wet and dry tracks by arming the AUX tracks.

Record & Playback

• Tap R or press the record button to start recording
• Tap R again to stop
• Tap Space or the play button to hear the recording played back
• WARNING: If recording UAD AUX tracks, there may be some latency which you'll need to deal with in post.

What's Next

• You can now just hit record (R) again to start a new immediate recording
• Or you can go and drag the recorded tracks into your DAW when it's time to mix or produce.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Press 'h' to reveal the history sidebar
• Press 'n' to reveal the notes, where you can add notes and rate your recording
• Press 'k' to show all keyboard shortcuts
• Press Cmd+N to start a new recording

Scenarios

A singer-songwriter working on their songs

If you're working your songs with guitar and vocals and want to capture a quick idea, just tap R to start recording your take. No setup or messing around. As long as your mics and audio interface are setup, you're good to go.
Add a note to the recording and then you can quickly look at the history to find out what you did. If it's a great take you can later drag the WAV files into Logic or whatever.

Practicing lead guitar over a YouTube backing track

If you're practicing lead guitar over YouTube backing tracks, or some other source on your computer, just hit R to capture your idea. You'll first need to arm the MON tracks (assuming your audio interface supports this). You can also capture the DI guitar signal as a separate track from whatever channel you've DI'd into.

Recording a band practice

If you need to capture a 2-hour practice with 8 inputs for different mics/instruments, just arm all those tracks, then hit R in Tapelet. Your band practice is captures as separate WAV files for each input you armed.

Testing microphone placements

If you're selecting the right position in the room you can quickly capture recordings for each position. Just tap R to start, R to stop, add a quick note about what the placement etc, then R to start the next recording. It's super quick to create a series of recordings when you're trying out different stuff.

Testing different microphones for a source

If you're trying out different mics, you can quickly capture a recording of each one by just tapping R to start/stop, then adding a note about the mic, then tap R again to move on to the next mic/recording.