Upgrade Manual

Chapter 6: Looping / Song Navigation Enhancements

Presets are available to set the loop

points to Intro, First / Middle /Last

Choruses, Ending, or All. As the

different buttons are selected you will

see the “Loop Range of Bars” settings

update. Hot keys are also available for

these, look in the Play menu under the

Looping submenu.

One More Time! (Song navigation during playback!)

The loop feature is useful for live performance (to shorten or lengthen the tune),

or to provide “endless choruses” of one tune when practicing. Either during

playback or when stopped, you can open the Loop dialog to quickly navigate

around the tune.

For example, if the song is playing and the “dance floor is humming” and you'd

like the last chorus of the song to loop endlessly, open the Loop Section

Settings dialog (NUMPAD 2), and click on the [Last] button. The song will

now continue playing and will loop the last chorus until you turn off looping

with NUMPAD 1. Similarly, to enable the “endless Choruses” for soloing

practice, open the dialog (NUMPAD 2) and click on [Middle].

There's a similar new feature called “Jump to” that allows you to jump to any

section of the song (intro / first chorus / middle choruses / last chorus / ending)

without looping. This is useful if the dance floor is “not humming,” and you

want to end the song by, for example, jumping to the ending or last chorus.

For live performers (or people in a hurry), there are even simpler “1 hand” hot

key commands to accomplish the entire process. Ctrl+NUMPAD 1 while a

song is playing (or stopped) will set the last chorus to loop endlessly and

NUMPAD 1 turns the loop off. If you press Ctrl+NUMPAD 1 to start the

song, it will start playback and set the looping up for the last chorus. If you

forget, you can still press the hot keys Ctrl+NUMPAD 1 as the song is playing

and the loop will get set up. Similar hot key commands are available for looping

the Middle choruses or Middle & Last chorus, and there are one-hand hot key

commands for jumping to the last chorus or ending to end the song early.

The Title bar at the top of the main screen indicates the looping status. If a song

has a looped section, this will be listed at the top of the screen (e.g. “Will loop

Middle Choruses” or “Currently looping Middle Choruses”). So you can tell

what is going to happen with the looping during a live performance.

Tip: If you're at home practicing a tune, start playback with Ctrl+NUMPAD 2, and the

song will play with endless middle choruses for soloing, until you press NUMPAD 1

(or Stop) to release the loop.