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POLAR
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A TYPICAL POLAR SESSION
A typical POLAR session might go as follows: you
import a 4-measure drum loop, place it in a regular
audio track in the Tracks window and set up the
memory cycle points around it so you can loop-
record over it in the POLAR window.
You open POLAR and record a bass line over the
drum loop. You like it, but you want to try again to
see if you can lay down something a little better.
You start playing another bass line and as soon as
you start playing, POLAR automatically mutes the
first pass for you (so it doesn’t interfere with your
new pass). You then record several more takes,
automatically muting each previous pass as you
begin recording a new one. Each take is stored as its
own “pass” in the list at the bottom of the window,
as shown in Figure 31-1.
After choosing the bass line you like the best (by
muting all the other passes), you proceed to some
layered percussion. This time, you use POLAR’s
overdub recording capabilities, recording each
percussion instrument into the same pass. The
result is one pass with all of the percussion parts in
it.
Using these same techniques, you add rhythm
guitar and a lead guitar solo on top, mixing as you
go with the mute, volume and pan controls for each
pass.
When you’re done, you click the Export button in
the POLAR window, which writes the session to
disk as audio files and adds the session to the
sequence as a single hard disk track right below the
drum loop you started with. (Or, if you prefer, you
can export each pass as its own separate track.)
Figure 31-1: The POLAR window.