In the arrangement window, click on one of the “Verse” sections that you placed on the arrangement grid. A red bar will appear across the top of the section to indicate that the section is record-enabled. Recording can now happen only within the bounds of the “Verse” -- notes that you play while the wiper is over any other section will not be recorded. However, each section in FreeStyle has a pickup bar and an overhang bar that overlap neighboring sections in the arrangement. Therefore, notes can actually be recorded 1 bar before what you think of as the start of the “Verse”, and up to 1 bar following what you think of as the end of the “Verse.” Notes recorded in the pickup or overhang measures of a section nonetheless are part of that section, not part of neighboring sections in the arrangement. To see this in action, let’s record something new. Choose “New Take” from the Record menu. Look in the Record menu and make sure that “Follow Song” is not checked. Next, make sure that the record button is on in the control palette, then click on the rewind and play buttons. Start playing something a beat or so before the wiper gets to bar 1, and continue playing past the end of the first “Verse.” You will notice that notes appear on your monitor as you play until one bar past the end of the record-enabled section. Then the rest of your notes are ignored until the time wiper reaches the next instance of “Verse” in your arrangement. If you are looking at the graphic editing view, your monitor will look something like what is show on the right.
The “Linear” section now has a red bar over it, indicating that it has become the record-enabled section. Click the rewind and play buttons, and begin recording notes into this section. When you reach the end of the section, it will simply grow to the right as you keep playing. The graphic editing window will show the new notes that you have recorded, overlapping notes that are simultaneously playing in the Verse and Chorus sections. The linear section can grow to accommodate the notes you play because there are no other sections in the way to the right of it on row 2. In the previous example when we were recording into the “Verse” section it didn’t grow because the “Chorus” section was immediately following it in row 1.
