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To access the loops, first enable the quick find panel by
clicking the show/hide control located at the upper left corner
of the edit page (Fig. 5-4). When the quick find panel is vis-
ible, an extra drop-down menu control will appear to the right
of the toggle button. Select the option called “loops” from this
menu.
These two steps activate the loop browser (Fig. 5-5), which
is a powerful and convenient tool for managing large loop li-
braries. Loops are special audio files that have been edited to
facilitate rapid expression of musical ideas. The loop browser
uses tempo, type, and genre tags embedded in loop files to help
you quickly find a loop suitable for your song.
Click the percussion and drums toggle buttons in the instru-
ments group. This will find all of the percussive loops in your
library. You can narrow the list down by choosing one or more
options from the genres and descriptors groups. The available
loops will be listed below the selection criteria (Fig. 5-6), and
you can click on any name in this list to preview the loop.
To add the loop to your edit, simply drag it from the list, onto
a track. As you drag it, you will see an outline clip (Fig. 5-7)
that
shows where the loop will be placed when you drop it. Find a
loop you like, and drag it to the beginning of Track 1. Take care
to ensure that the clip is lined up with the bar lines along the
top of the edit page.
Figure 5-7
A cool thing that may not be immediately apparent at this time is that the loop is auto-
matically in time with your edit. Tracktion automatically time-stretches loops that contain
suitable tempo matching values. You have lots of control over how Tracktion does this
from an audio clip’s Loop Properties Panel. For more information on time-stretching refer
to Sections 4.6 and 4.7 in the Reference Manual.
At this point your loop probably spans only a few bars at most. To use it as an effective
back beat for recording, we need to stretch it to cover more bars.
Click on the clip. Notice how its appearance changes; this change shows that the clip is
selected. If you look at the clip, you will see that it has a title-bar with a number of small
icons. First make sure that the “L” icon located roughly at the centre of the clip is selected
(Fig. 5-8). When selected, the “L” icon will appear to be a different colour than the other
icons on the clip’s title-bar. This enables loop mode for the clip.
Figure 5-4
Figure 5-5
Figure 5-6
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