Normally, there is a pre-count when the metronome is on and Quantize Start is on. It will pre-count a bar before beginning record. HOWEVER, there appears to be a bug with the metronome when recording from mic in the current version which may be breaking it in that case.
Couldn't find this "record with mic" feature, am I missing something? By the way, while I was looking for it, I went to the new instrument creation tool (no mic plugged) and quitted it immediately (pressing cancel). The instrument I was using was replaced by the usual new instrument number but with the samples of the previous instrument and 'standard' settings (not the previous instrument ones)... Not a big deal since you just have to reload the instrument to have everything back to normal, but I would have expected to have no change when pressing cancel in instrument creation.