Reference Manual

276 Clip Envelopes

Using a Clip Envelope to Create a Fade-Out Over Several Repetitions of a Loop.

1. Choose the Clip or Mixer Volume envelope, and unlink it from the sample.

The clip envelope’s loop braces now appear colored to indicate this envelope now has its

own local loop/region settings. The loop/region controls in the Envelopes box “come to

life.“ If you toggle the envelope’s Loop switch, you’ll notice the Sample box’s Loop switch

is not affected. The sample will keep looping although the envelope is now playing as a

“one-shot.”

2. Type “8“ into the leftmost envelope loop-length value box.

3. Zoom the envelope display out all the way by clicking on the Envelope’s time ruler and

dragging upwards.

4. Insert a breakpoint at the region end and drag it to the bottom.

Now, as you play the clip, you can hear the one-bar loop fading out over eight bars.

20.5.2 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.