Instruction Manual

400 Using Loops
The Loop Construction View
the Pitch (coarse) field, the clip is transposed down two semitones to D
from the original pitch of E.
Pitch (fine)
The Pitch (fine) field allows you to make tuning adjustments or to transpose
the pitch of a clip up to 50 cents. There are 100 cents in one semi tone. A
Pitch (fine) setting of “1” adjusts the pitch up one hundredth of a semi tone.
The Pitch (fine) option can “fine tune” a slightly out of tune clip so that it is in
pitch with the remaining clips in a project.
Slices Menu
The Slices menu sets the resolution for the creation of markers, or the
“slicing” of the looped clip. This menu uses note lengths, so the settings
are:
• Whole notes
• Half notes
• Quarter notes
• Eighth notes
• Sixteenth notes
• Thirty-second notes
The automatic markers appear at the note resolutions according to the
slider 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.
Trans Detect (%)
The Trans Detect control senses transients in your audio clip and assigns a
marker at the beginning and end of each one it finds. As the you increase
the sensitivity (by using larger numbers) smaller transients are detected
and the number of markers increases.
Stop Preview
Stops loop preview playback.