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Working with Loops and Groove Clips
Working with Loops
Contents List Pane
The Contents List pane displays the folders and files contained in the active folder.
To Preview a Groove Clip
1. Click the Auto-preview button in the Media Browser toolbar.
2. Click on a Wave file in the Content List pane.
Each successive Wave file you select is previewed. You can also select multiple files and play
them simultaneously.
Or
1. Select a Wave file in the Content List pane.
2. Click the Play button in the Media Browser toolbar.
3. Click the Stop button to stop playing the selected Wave file.
When you preview a Groove clip in the Media Browser view, the clip plays in the project key and at
the project tempo.
To Drag a Loop into a Project
1. Click and drag the Wave file from the Media Browser view to the Track view.
2. Drop the Wave file in the track and at the time in which you want it in your project. If you drop the
file after the last track in your project, a new track is created for the file.
To Drag Multiple Loops into a Project
1. Select a Wave file and select additional by holding down the CTRL key and selecting them.
2. Drag the Wave files from the Media Browser view to the Track view.
3. Drop the Wave files into the Track view at the time in which you want them in your project.
The Wave files appear on consecutive tracks in the Track view at the time selected.
Working with Loops
You can make any audio clip into a loop by checking the Enable Looping check box in the Clip
Properties dialog. Once looping is enabled, you can drag out loops to create multiple repetitions.
There are several other ways to enable looping:
To Enable or Disable a Clip for Looping
1. Double-click on the clip you want to loop.
The Loop Construction view appears.
2. In the Loop Construction view, click the Enable Looping button .
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