Loops in Ntrack?

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Is there a way within Ntrack to create a drum or guitar loop of say, 10 seconds or less?

My timing and consistency isn't that great and it would be a big help to extract a part from a good take and loop it where necessary.
 
No, not really.

However, you can create your own loops in any wave editor. Just chop out your loop and then import it multiple times onto a track (the parts will "lock" together in n-Track if you do it right). Technically you could use n-Track as your wave editor but...yeesh.

Software that might be a little more geared towards what you want to do would be Acid from Sonic Foundry.

(BTW, I'm assuming that you have a drum beat or something that goes off time, and you just want to sample a small repeating section of a good part of the track and "loop" it to create a new track. This isn't technically "looping" but it's similar. Typically you'd call this using "patterns".)

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(BTW, I'm assuming that you have a drum beat or something that goes off time, and you just want to sample a small repeating section of a good part of the track and "loop" it to create a new track. This isn't technically "looping" but it's similar. Typically you'd call this using "patterns".)

Yeah, I keep steppin' on my wang at different parts of the song. After take number 30, it's time to try something else! :D
 
do it in measures.

The first mistake I realized I was making in PC recording was to show time intervals. If you change the display to M:B:T in preferences, then you lock the grid to measures, you can now use N-Track like a sequencer, and put one line, riff, hook, whatever... and copy (loop) it over and over again. Just make sure the snap to grid is on, and everything will lock up to the beats, since you're doing it by measures now. It makes PC recording SO much easier.

So it's like this
1. set your scale to M:B:T (measures, beats, ticks) in "Preferences" Show your grid and make it snap to measures.

2. Record your sample that you will be looping...it's a good idea to leave some measures before hand, and use the metronome, so you're in sync

3. Trim the sample down to the # of measures you will be looping (1, 4, whatever)

4. Now you have a sample, in time, that you can copy and paste anywhere you want in your song.

Lemme know if this didn't make sense, or you want further clarification.

H2H
 
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