Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Loops
From: Andy Cragg (caesura_AT_freenetname.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 22:42:06 EEST
Jesse Chappell wrote:
> > >
> > > How do you audition a guitar solo, for instance? You'd want to listen
> > > to it a few times without having to press stop/rewind/play every time?
>
> >
> > Ah, the beauty of the English language, 'eh? 'Loops' (a noun) vs. 'looping'.
> > (a verb) ;-) Now I understand your request. Since I am not an Ardour user I
> > cannot say anything about the actual method used to do this in it's GUI. I
> > seem to remember a symbol for this in it's transport, but I don't know....
>
>Currently, this *can* be done in ardour, but the steps needed
>are less than intuitive.
>
>1. make a range selection
>2. right-click to popup menu, choose "Select->New Location from selection"
> (note, *not* Selection->LoopSelection !!)
>3. open the Locations window from the Windows menu
>4. check the Loop column for the location you just made
>5. Select the loop button (icon) in the transport bar
>6. Position the playhead somewhere in or before the loop area
> and press play.
>
>When you change the checked loop location you may have to reselect
>the loop transport button (bug). Also, when you delete a location
>(by shift-right-clicking on the marker bar), it won't delete it
>from the location window (bug).
>
>I will do my best to make this a much more streamlined process
>in future versions of ardour.
>
>jlc
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That worked fine! Thanks for that - roll on the docu project ... :)
Cheers,
Andy
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