Topic: Looping?

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  • #26320
    John Weissman
    Participant

    Hey anyone, How come I can’t–or, how can I–pull out a loop and have it duplicate, like in most DAWs? I can pull out a loop with the result being a blank slate in the loop. Or I can time-stretch the loop, but I just want not to have to keep dragging a loop from the browser. Thanks much!

    #26324
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Using keyboard: With the first loop event selected, press the Insert key repeatedly to append ghost copies.

    Using mouse: Start a normal drag/move of the first loop event, and then press and hold the control key when you drop it. Holding the control key changes the mouse cursor to an arrow, to indicate ghost copy. Press the control key repeatedly to toggle the mode for dropping either ghost copies or unique copies (mouse cursor toggles between arrow and ‘+’).

    #26331
    Levendis
    Participant

    Also, use the Segment Selection Range to work with chunks within the timeline (Keyboard shortcut J).

    There’s no resampling engine in Podium, so time-stretching audio is not supported… yet 🙂

    #26343
    Pitchaxis
    Participant

    No resampling? so why when i import a track it stretch it and how to disable it?
    I mean i import a 120 bpm track and podium speed it up if my project tempo is 140 per eg.

    #26346
    John Weissman
    Participant

    Thank you, excellent!

    #26347
    Levendis
    Participant

    Pitchaxis wrote:
    No resampling? so why when i import a track it stretch it and how to disable it?

    Not being one who works with loops, and to explore your statement, i attempted time-stretching in Podium. Without success.

    I dragged audio samples (*.wav files) into the arrangement; they weren’t automatically synced to the arrangement’s tempo.
    With an audio sample in the arrangement i adjusted the tempo; the audio played back at the same speed.

    There is an instance where you may get a discrepancy in sample playback, however. This occurs when your project samplerate and audio file sample rate do not match. Say your audio file was at 96kHz samplerate, and your project is set to 44.1kHz, the audio file will play slower/over a longer duration. The reason being that 96k samples per second is played at the rate of 44.1k samples per second. Analogous to this would be frames on a film reel. Say you filmed 1 second at the rate of 96k frames per second, but your playback equipment worked at 44.1k frames per second, your original 1 second capture would be ≈2.18 seconds long.

    You are able to drag a midi file (*.midi, *.mid) from the File Browser, or arrangement objects from the Project Browser. These will be synced with the arrangement tempo.

    #26348
    John Weissman
    Participant

    Sorry for any confusion, guys!, my question contained a wrong assumption about “time stretching”. When dragging on a MIDI file in the top square, I think, the notes and spaces are stretched out, and I wrongly called this “time stretching”. My only issue is cloning a loop the usual way, drapping a loop, audio or midi to either rite or left X times per bar, or loop length. Thanks much!

    #26350
    Pitchaxis
    Participant

    You totally right i have converted to mp3 a video downloaded from youtube and the sample rate was 22 khz and i work on 44 so it explain all.
    I have tried with another file with the good sampleate it works.
    Also podium seems to detect the tempo when i import a loop héhé.
    Thanks Levendis for the help 🙂

    #26351
    Levendis
    Participant

    More than happy to help 🙂
    These technical issues can be a brain bender and not at all obvious.

    And yes John, midi events on the timeline have time multipliers – using the squares (handles) you mention. Which is effectively “time-stretching” 😉

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