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Using the Crossfade Looper
What is the Crossfade Looper?
The Crossfade Looper is a special tool for creating “seamless” loops. It
allows you to “nudge” the loop points while at the same time providing vi-
sual feedback of the “join” between the start and end point.
The Crossfade Looper can also automatically find loop points for you, by
scanning the area of the waveform that is in the current loop points’ vicin-
ity. You can specify parameters for how “finicky” the program should be
when suggesting loop points.
Finally, if you can’t find a good enough loop point using the methods de-
scribed above, the Crossfade Looper allows you to process the waveform
to allow for smoother loops. It does this by crossfading areas of the wave-
form close to the loop start and end points.
Opening the Crossfade Looper
Before you open the Crossfade Looper we suggest you set up a basic
loop as described on the previous pages. Then proceed as follows:
1. If you have several loops, place the wave cursor somewhere inside the
one you want to work on.
This can be done by clicking somewhere between the loop markers.
2. Select Crossfade Looper… from the Sampling menu.
3. Click on the “Loop points” tab.
This tab should be your starting point, since this is where you adjust the loop points.
• The following sections describe the common procedures for using the
Crossfade Looper – for details about the dialog itself, click the question
mark icon in the dialog.
About the Crossfade Looper dialogs
The Crossfade Looper dialogs are non-modal. While they are open, you
can still access other windows (e.g. the Transport bar). However, all edit-
ing of the Wave window on which you are working is blocked out (except
moving the current pair of loop markers, of course).
Furthermore, each time you click Apply, the process starts out from the
wave data as it was when you opened the Crossfade Looper (since you
want to be able to try out various types of crossfading without re-process-
ing the wave each time). This affects the undo function: there is only one
step of undo and no redo in the Crossfade Looper.