Process flow: recording thoughts and midi controllers/shortcuts?

[Piplodocus]

Was just pondering what you folks do when recording lots of takes?

With my old MOTU interface I had a foot switch I could assign to F9 (record) and it made it good and easy to just punch in/out. I now have an RME interface that doesn’t have that. But it wasn’t so easy to skip back to a certain place to restart anyway.

My Push (1) has a similar pedal, but if using the push for stuff other than single-track recording it has a habit of being a PITA from what I remember, so tend to have it turned off if doing multi-track live instruments. It’s clearly designed for more part-by-part electronic music when recording (in my head at least). I have to make sure my default empty tracks don’t ruin push functionality - done that one before where adding a new track with push makes a track that push doesn’t work properly with! Anyway, that’s a different story.

Comping/take lanes are good because I can just loop record. But if trying to lay down guitar parts to most of a song and screw it, I don’t want to wait the song out, I want to just stop, jump back a few(?) locators to the one near the beginning of that part, and restart recording again.

So my general question is what do you folks use in your workflow for recording (especially live instruments)? I’ve been pondering if a little midi foot controller that does something like: record toggle, play toggle, undo and maybe jump forward/back locator (presuming jumping locators is possible to set) could be super useful.

Basically I’m looking for any good ideas you folks use for recording workflow improvements. Obvs there’s keyboard shortcuts, but that’s fiddlier and since it’s usually me playing guitar, would be nicer not leaning and moving around to do it (and I’m not sure if there’s shortcuts for jump forward back locators). So foot operated stuff is good.

As noted I do have a Push 1, so maybe more ideas with that? But it very much seems it only likes arming 1 track at once, so I could be wrong, but doesn’t seem like it wants to help when recording multiple tracks at once. But also I have a few old midi foot controllers kicking about if there’s great ideas for them. That’s probably the way I’d be thinking of going, but since it’ll be different songs, don’t know if I should think about previous/next locator ideas, or just stuff a locator in and quickly “midi learn” a controller to a songs specific fixed locator? I guess that’s why I’m asking a somewhat open ended question to any folks who do this kind of thing a lot.

Thanks!