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CHAPTER 19. CLIP ENVELOPES 268
effectively deletes the envelope data. To return to the previous state, please use the Edit
menu's Undo command.
19.5.2 Creating Long Loops from Short Loops
Let us take this a step further. For a different part of your set, you would like to use the
same one-bar loop  because it sounds great  but its repetition bores you. You would like
to somehow turn it into a longer loop.
We depart from the clip we just set up to fade out over eight bars. Activate the clip volume
envelope's Loop switch. Now, as you play the clip, you can hear the eight-bar fade-out
repeating. You can draw or edit any envelope to superimpose onto the sample loop. This,
of course, not only works for volume but for any other control as well; how about a lter
sweep every four bars?
Note that you can create as much time as needed in the Envelope Editor, either by dragging
the loop braces beyond the view limit, or by entering values into the numeric region/loop
controls.
You can choose an arbitrary loop length for each envelope, including odd lengths like 3.2.1.
It is not hard to imagine great complexity (and confusion!) arising from several odd-length
envelopes in one clip.
The Sample (Left) and
Envelope (Right) Start
Marker.
To keep this complexity under control, it is important to have a common point of reference.
The start marker identies the point where sample or envelope playback depart from when
the clip starts.