Reference Manual

CHAPTER 9. TEMPO CONTROL AND WARPING 121
Syncing Uncut Loops
When importing a loop that has not been edited into a well-cut loop, Live will play it out of
sync. Suppose there is a portion of silence at the sample beginning, prior to the rst beat.
You can easily correct this by moving the Warp Marker labeled with a 1 to the rst beat's
onset. Likewise, you can eliminate silence after the actual loop end by moving the Warp
Marker at the sample's right edge.
Setting the Warp
Markers for a Poorly Cut
Loop.
Syncing Odd-Length Loops
If you import a sample that contains a seven-bar loop, Live initially assumes the loop is eight
bars long (or four, depending on its length) and plays it out of sync. For correct playback,
the last marker needs to show an eight, not a nine. To achieve this do the following:
1. Double-click on the last Warp Marker to delete it.
2. Double-click on the eight to create a new Warp Marker.
3. Drag the new Warp Marker to the sample end.
If Live's initial guess had been a four-bar loop, the eight would not have been accessible. In
that case, you could initially drag the Warp Marker at the end toward the left until the eight
became visible.
Theoretically this should have done the job for our seven-bar loop. Practically, though, it is
very likely that moving the markers led to a change of the loop start and end points. This