Reference Guide

700 Working with loops and Groove Clips
The Loop Construction view
Controls
• Preview . Plays the current loop repeatedly. Click again to stop preview.
• Loop. Click the Loop button to loop clips in the Track view by dragging the right side of a clip
with your mouse. When Loop is not on, you are able to slip-edit the clip.
• Resolution. The slice Resolution control sets the resolution for the creation of markers, or the
“slicing” of the looped clip. This control uses the following note durations:
• No Slice
• Whole Note
• 1/2 Note
• 1/4 Note
• 1/8 Note
• 1/16 Note
• 1/32 Note
The automatic markers appear at the note resolutions according to the Resolution setting. At the
eighth note setting, there are eight markers per measure.
This control works well for slicing audio that has more subtle changes in volume with few
dramatic transients.
The markers in a loop clip preserve the timing of the audio at that moment. Too few or too many
markers can cause unwanted “artifacts” when a loop clip is stretched.
• Threshold. The Threshold control senses transients in your audio clip and assigns a marker at
the beginning and end of each one it finds. As you increase the number in this field, smaller
transients are detected and the number of markers increases.
• Beats. The number of beats (quarter notes) in the clip.
• BPM. The tempo at which the clip was recorded.
• Pitch. The Follow Project Pitch option transposes the loop, if necessary, to the key of the
project. A loop recorded in the key of A, used in a project in the key of C, would be transposed up
three semitones if the Follow Project Pitch check box was checked.
• Root Note. The Root Note represents the key in which the loop was recorded. The Follow
Project Pitch feature uses this information, when checked, to transpose the loop to match the
project’s key.
• Coarse Pitch. You can set the transposition of a clip, independent from the project pitch, using
the Coarse Pitch field. A positive number transposes the clip up by that number of semitones. A
negative number transposes the clip down by that number of semitones. Remember that, if the
Follow Project Pitch option is checked, the clip follows the project’s pitch, so any transposition
changes you make using this option are changes to the project pitch, not the clip pitch.
An example: The project key is C. The clip key is D. If the Follow Project Pitch option is
checked, the clip is transposed down by two semitones. A value entered into the Pitch