[LAU] Wav loop points

[Brent Busby]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Louigi Verona wrote:

> *Wrote this some time ago to the list, never got a reply. Now looking 
> through the archives, I don't see this mail at all. I did attach a 
> file, so maybe it was filtered. This is why I am duplicating this.*
>
> Hey fellas!
>
> I notice that no Linux samplers seem to support wav file loop points. 
> All Windows DAWs that I have used support the format and there are a 
> lot of samples out there with perfect loop points which is very 
> useful. I have no idea whether this is part of the spec or not but 
> these looppoints have been used for more than 15 years, that's for 
> sure, since some of these sample collections have been around during 
> tracking days. I did find something on loops here: 
> http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/wavefiles.html But I think you, devs, 
> know better than me anyway.
>
> I think it would be great if LMMS, samplers like Petri-Foo would 
> support this, as this adds a lot of functionality. Many sample 
> collections provide perfect loops and it is tiresome to have to try to 
> remake it by hand each time, while in some software it is simply 
> impossible at all.

Don't know about LMMS, but Petri-Foo and Specimen do handle loop points. 
If you set "Playback" to "Loop" on the Sample tab (the first tab, the 
one that shows a picture of your sample's waveform), you can then 
double-click on the waveform display window and get a dialog to come up 
that gives quite a lot of control over setting the loop points for that 
sample.  There are some videos on YouTube that demo this -- search for 
"Specimen sampler" there.

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