Recording in one audio grab rather than several

[ratbagradio]

I know that there should be a way to avoid this ..When I record interviews and such my HiMD (Sony MZ NH700) breaks up the recording into segments which I guess are formatted between by silences. This is OK in that the segments can be joined in post editing but I get peeved for having to copy and paste each segment into the one audio channel before I can begin my full edit. I just had to pull together a 2 hour interview by joining 23 separate sound byte segments. It's pain.

So what do I have to tweak to get the machine to start and only stop recording when I press PAUSE or STOP?

If I switch to that, what price do i pay in way of adminisrating my recording sessions?

And why is this automatic stop/ start mode the default for the machine?

[A440]

So what do I have to tweak to get the machine to start and only stop recording when I press PAUSE or STOP?

And why is this automatic stop/ start mode the default for the machine?

If you're recording through Line-in there is no way to change this. There is no reason "why" except that Sony persists in building them that way.

But there are two ways around your laborious copy and paste. You can remove track marks on the unit itself. Start playback, put it in PAUSE, and then skip through the recording with >> and

Many eons ago, SonicStage would not upload tracks that had been rejoined like that, and you can find discussions of that bug in old posts here. But that bug was fixed in one of the 3.x versions, defintely by 3.4 . I regularly upload tracks that have been joined. Try it with a non-crucial recording, or one you've already edited, and see.

Another way is to use the Combine function in SonicStage after the tracks have been uploaded. It's under Edit. Just highlight the tracks in the order you want to combine them--usually top to bottom. (If you highlight the same tracks bottom to top it will put them together backwards, that is 5-4-3-2-1 instead of 1-2-3-4-5, and they can't be un-combined, though you could just upload them again.) Try to free up system resources when you do this--no browsers, email, etc.--and go have a cup of coffee because Combine is slow. But it works. And then you can convert the combined track to .wav (SonicStage) or .mp3 (Hi-MD Renderer).