Topic: FR: continuous loop-recorded events

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  • #1748
    ronin
    Participant

    Hi everyone,

    again I have two small feature request and one concerning the actual loop recording improvments.
    It would be nice and useful if loop-recorded events are just one “cutted event”. In the present form the recorded loop events seem to be events with each having its own audio file attached. This means that stretching these events results in an abrupt end of the audio material since the corresponding connecting part is on the next loop track.
    Usually I loop events in the arrangment and therefore I let them overlap a little bit so it sounds nice with crossfading. this is difficult at the moment.

    the second request is about stretching (lengthen) midi events in both directions. at the moment you can only lengthen midi events in the “playback direction”. Sometimes I want to add an upbeat or similiar at the beginning.

    #13523
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    @ronin wrote:

    again I have two small feature request and one concerning the actual loop recording improvments.
    It would be nice and useful if loop-recorded events are just one “cutted event”. In the present form the recorded loop events seem to be events with each having its own audio file attached. This means that stretching these events results in an abrupt end of the audio material since the corresponding connecting part is on the next loop track.
    Usually I loop events in the arrangment and therefore I let them overlap a little bit so it sounds nice with crossfading. this is difficult at the moment.

    I’m not sure I would like the multiple recorded takes to be one continuous sound. If you are not wary of this, you could end up with several huge sound files of which you may only use a small part, even if you delete the events of unwanted takes. It also makes it difficult to edit the sound, if you e.g. want to normalize one of your takes. If you want to record a tail of each of your loops, could you not just extend the looped range? Or you could drag a phantom copy of the next recorded take up to the end of the previous take, and then merge the two.

    the second request is about stretching (lengthen) midi events in both directions. at the moment you can only lengthen midi events in the “playback direction”. Sometimes I want to add an upbeat or similiar at the beginning.

    I’ll implement this eventually. At the time being, you need to draw a blank sequence event right before your existing sequence, and then merge the two.

    #13527
    ronin
    Participant

    Hmm you are right…this raises the need for some other features. But I guess it would be useful if you have something like “cut audio files to events” for cleaning up the whole project. While editing the audio file the “evented” parts of the file could be highlighted and editing could be done via selection (select a part and normalize it). Unfortunately changing the loop size would result in a different beat length and this may be bad while recording. Yes, using a phantom copy would help but anyway:

    I’ve I’m the only one who asks for this then you really don’t have to think about this 🙂 I can live with it. It’s not essential it just would speed some things up.

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