From my experience with this, I think the composer should be aware that he should not stop the live recording until he stops all the notes. Otherwise, he are making “an incomplete recording”. Recording notes involves shooting notes and shutdown notes, both.
However, it would be easier if you automatically record from where the cursor is, regardless of whether or not there are note-Offs. But the composer must be aware that something strange has been done here that he will need to fix (probably add note-Offs afterwards manually).
Another way to avoid this situation would be that, when stopping playback for live recording, Renoise will automatically record missing note-Offs to stop all the notes. Maybe this would be the most appropriate way. But this should be discussed with @taktik, in case he wanted to change it.
@andrew. I don’t know if you’re still confused. But you cannot record notes while song playback is activated without the follow the player. Playback must scroll through the lines to deposit the notes. Renoise works perfectly here, even recording delay parameters. It’s just a matter of getting used to it.
If you simply want to play while listening, disable the edit mode. You will not record, but you will listen to what you play while the song is running.
If you have latency problems (if you use a MIDI controller), follow these tips: About latency device settings