I’m not talking about “auto match”, I’m talking about triggering the punch-out. It auto-matches at punch-out of course, but the issue is triggering the punch out.
As for your suggestions like we both said it seems toggling either “write” or “suspend”, preferably on a per-track basis, is the way to go.
Anything involving cycle mode or right locators won’t do because the basic idea here is being able to latch-write enable tracks, hit play and just record as I go. I don’t want to enable a cycle marker because if I’m looping back the solution is simply to just hit stop instead. And setting the right marker would require foresight. In a lot of cases I won’t know ahead of time when I want automation to cease and go back to what was written.
I think it would be a good addition to be able to trigger punch-out either on a per-track basis and/or globally, without having to toggle suspend or write.