How do I loop single music clips?
Looping the whole music timeline works fine but I don't want to repeat the first part of my track and setting either Clip and/or Slice Playback to Loop doesn't do anything.
What do I have to do?
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When you set a clip to loop, you can then drag the handle at the end of the clip to extend it, which should look it.
You can also just clone clips with l1+r2 just like in assembly mode.
- yann -
Clip playback mode is the tweak you want. Once the clip is set to looping, you can extend by dragging the right edge (as Yann points out).
Slice playback mode is something different - it loops the individual samples within the sound. Be careful with this, as it can drastically change the behaviour of an instrument. Most instruments are set to sustain -
I see. But the looped music clip ends when the timeline ends, right? I want to loop a clip indefinitely und completely independent from the rest of the timeline. Is there a way to do that within the same timeline?
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ok - sounds to me like you need to split your music into two timelines - one that won't loop (intro) and one that will (main part). When the intro ends, start the main part. There is an output on the timeline's tweak page which fires when the timeline ends. You can plug this into a timeline but there is something else you need to do too - a permanently looping timeline needs power all the time, but the 'timeline finished' output only fires a pulse. So:
plug the timeline finished output of the intro part into the + input of a counter
plug the output of the counter into the power of the looping timeline
Sounds fiddly, but hopefully that makes sense!
TomC
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