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Subject:Problems joining loops Posted by: Stratman95 Date:5/28/2005 8:04:17 AM I am having an issue trying to join three loops at the end of a song. I recorded guitar and broke it in to pieces to capture the best parts and looped them. At the end of the song I am trying to fade out the last three loops but when I select them and click join, they are replaced with a completely different loop that was not selected. I have done this before with great success and can not figure out why I am having issues now. I am hoping it is something simple that I accidently missed but as of right now I am stuck. If anyone can provide any insight it would be much appreciated. BTW, I am using just Acid Music Studio 5.0. Thanks! Message last edited on5/28/2005 8:05:42 AM byStratman95.
Subject:RE: Problems joining loops Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:5/28/2005 12:21:03 PM I’m not following what you are trying to do. Join will fill in gaps in a loop that you’ve chopped up. I’m not sure what this has to do with a fade. If you want to fade out three loops, either fade each one manually using the fade offset or add a volume envelope to the tracks and fade the volume. To fade the whole song, add a volume envelope to the Master bus. ~jr
Subject:RE: Problems joining loops Reply by: Stratman95 Date:5/28/2005 7:26:40 PM I am trying to do the fade offset by clicking in the top right hand corner of the loop and dragging it to the left. I can successfully do that inside of each loop, however I don't want each loop to fade out but instead I want it to gradually fade out over the course of the three loops. In the past I was able to highlight any number of consecutive loops, join them, and perform a fade offset by clicking in the top right hand corner of the rightmost loop and drag it over to the leftmost loop. I may be going about this in a strange way but it has acheived the results I have wanted in the past, until now. Is it possible that it has anything to do with snapping?
Subject:RE: Problems joining loops Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:5/29/2005 4:05:48 AM I see. So the three loops are on the same track and when you select them and press J (for join) they don’t join into one loop? That’s strange. That should work. The volume envelope will still work so you might want to do that just to finish the song until you figure out what’s going wrong. ~jr
Subject:RE: Problems joining loops Reply by: Iacobus Date:5/30/2005 11:13:52 AM When you join loops together using the "join" command, what happens is that the left most event takes precedence over the rest of the events—essentially "filling in" and replacing the content from the other events with the left most event's content. There are couple ways of getting around this. You could leave the events as they are and drag the events' quick fade edges to their respective ends of the event and use a volume envelope as JohnnyRoy suggested. You could also bounce down the events and then use a quick fade edge as you always have. To bounce down, solo the track and place the Loop Region over the area you'd like to keep (which would be where the events are). Be sure to set the track as close to unity (0.0 dB) as possible and use CTRL+M to render to a new track using the "use loop region only" option. Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid Buy Instant ACID by JohnnyRoy and mD! mD at ACIDplanet

Subject:Problems joining loops

Posted by: Stratman95

Date:5/28/2005 8:04:17 AM

I am having an issue trying to join three loops at the end of a song. I recorded guitar and broke it in to pieces to capture the best parts and looped them. At the end of the song I am trying to fade out the last three loops but when I select them and click join, they are replaced with a completely different loop that was not selected. I have done this before with great success and can not figure out why I am having issues now. I am hoping it is something simple that I accidently missed but as of right now I am stuck. If anyone can provide any insight it would be much appreciated. BTW, I am using just Acid Music Studio 5.0. Thanks!

Message last edited on5/28/2005 8:05:42 AM byStratman95.

Subject:RE: Problems joining loops

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:5/28/2005 12:21:03 PM

I’m not following what you are trying to do. Join will fill in gaps in a loop that you’ve chopped up. I’m not sure what this has to do with a fade.

If you want to fade out three loops, either fade each one manually using the fade offset or add a volume envelope to the tracks and fade the volume. To fade the whole song, add a volume envelope to the Master bus.

~jr

Subject:RE: Problems joining loops

Reply by: Stratman95

Date:5/28/2005 7:26:40 PM

I am trying to do the fade offset by clicking in the top right hand corner of the loop and dragging it to the left. I can successfully do that inside of each loop, however I don't want each loop to fade out but instead I want it to gradually fade out over the course of the three loops. In the past I was able to highlight any number of consecutive loops, join them, and perform a fade offset by clicking in the top right hand corner of the rightmost loop and drag it over to the leftmost loop. I may be going about this in a strange way but it has acheived the results I have wanted in the past, until now. Is it possible that it has anything to do with snapping?

Subject:RE: Problems joining loops

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:5/29/2005 4:05:48 AM

I see. So the three loops are on the same track and when you select them and press J (for join) they don’t join into one loop? That’s strange. That should work. The volume envelope will still work so you might want to do that just to finish the song until you figure out what’s going wrong.

~jr

Subject:RE: Problems joining loops

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:5/30/2005 11:13:52 AM

When you join loops together using the "join" command, what happens is that the left most event takes precedence over the rest of the events—essentially "filling in" and replacing the content from the other events with the left most event's content.

There are couple ways of getting around this. You could leave the events as they are and drag the events' quick fade edges to their respective ends of the event and use a volume envelope as JohnnyRoy suggested.

You could also bounce down the events and then use a quick fade edge as you always have.

To bounce down, solo the track and place the Loop Region over the area you'd like to keep (which would be where the events are). Be sure to set the track as close to unity (0.0 dB) as possible and use CTRL+M to render to a new track using the "use loop region only" option.

Iacobus
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