Can I have some money to hire an assistant to record for me while I play my wind instrument?

[Majik (Keith Milner)]

@skygge

The simplest working solution you have in third reply

I’d argue there’s a simpler approach, as suggested by both Robin and me

@x42

or just don’t bother to record a bit early and cut it later.

@Majik

Why don’t you start the recording, then start playing some time after, and trim the start of the recording?

There may be a good reason why the OP’s workflow doesn’t support this, of course but, if there is, we’ve not been told it. In fact the OP doesn’t seem to have responded for some time.

Cheers,

Keith

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

@skygge

Implemented by me into my MIDI controller map

That requires a remote or portable MIDI controller. I do not have one and I guess neither does the OP.

[skygge]

@AlexAlex

Use a foot pedal to trigger a recording with count it.

I assume this foot pedal is attached to the computer with a cable of some sort?

[JM120 (Myinfotech)]

I just received my PCsensor PS/2 Triple Pedals Foot Switch. The 3 button USB foot pedal form PCSensor.com was very affordable and a cost effective solution.

After a little searching I found Linux software on Github by rgerganov footswitch works great after some manual changes to the source code to correctly identify the vendorId and productId for my footswitch using lsusb.

I finally managed to program the buttons in Linux without the Windows program provided by the vendor and programmed the buttons as follows

Button1 - Enable / Disable Click ( Metronome)

Button2 - Start Record with Pre-Roll count

Button3 - Stop / Start playback

Works great. Hope this helps.