[linux-audio-user] Loops

[Andy Cragg]

Rick Taylor wrote:

>Andy Cragg <caesura at freenetname.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>Andy Cragg <caesura at freenetname.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>Sweep is good, ReZound looks like sweep but these are sample editors - 
>>>>it'd be nice to have an Acid-like looping app that joins the samples 
>>>>together to make songs ...  like Ardour or Rosegarden, but with loops ...
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>>>Why not use loops in Ardour?
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>>Go on then, how do you do that?  :)
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> like you would in anything else... line them up, put fades and effects on them,
> toss other stuff into the mix.
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> Why is this difficult? Are you looking for something like fruity loops that
> makes it easy to assemble the loops themselves? What sort of functionality
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I can load sample files into Ardour (but can't line them up without 
pixel-precision accuracy with the mouse ...) apply fx etc but I'd like 
to select a section of a track and listen to it over and over (applying 
fx, listen for mistakes etc) - Ardour does not have this facilty.  I'd 
like : select a section, play, tweeek just that section without having 
to press play over and over again.

All windows audio apps have this facillty :)

How do people here edit your tracks - do you place the start point 
somewhere, press play, listen, press stop, put the start point back, 
press play, listen ... seems odd to me.  Even my old Yamaha QY-10 had a 
loop facility, and my cassette tape portastudio had one!

Cheers,

Andy