[linux-audio-user] Loops

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:34, Chris Cannam wrote:

> You can't loop a segment just by selecting it though, no.  Wouldn't that 
> interfere with editing during playback?  Or do you mean only if you 
> select something before hitting Play?
> 

In the Windows apps I think the original poster was talking about,
either Acid or Sound Forge types, there is generally an audio preview
area in the screen somewhere, sort of like an audio preview area. It's
not the main app, but just an extra mini-app, sometimes with its own
mini-transport. If you select an audio segment, possibly before
inserting it into a real track, you might want to preview it, so there
is a way to play the segment from there. (Imagine a file manager with a
list of files. You highlight one and you hear it at the tempo of the
session. Remember Acid changes the tempo of everything on the fly.)

In Acid it's useful in the sense that you might be chopping just a
portion of a loop to use in a track somewhere and you want to hear how
that little piece of audio is going to sound. These little mini-apps get
used in that way.

Rosegarden & Ardour don't support that sort of functionality yet, as far
as I know. I doubt it would be that hard to do, once Rosegarden gets to
a point where there is more audio capability.

In Ardour, there was discussion at one time about having the ability to
automatically repeat audio segments over and over, just like in Acid. It
was in for a while as a patch from someone. I don't know if it ever made
it into the main code stream.

- Mark