kb
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"Infinite Sustain" for drumloops on SP12?couldn't find answer in the FAQ, so forgive the newbie question.
here goes:
SP12 Turbo OS2.6
- Sampled a few bars of a drumloop off vinyl.
- Went to Truncate/Loop to try to get it to loop "infinitely," as the owner's manual promises (pg 60)
- Set my start & end and loop points to the bars of the sampled drumloop.
- Play back the sound and get a perfect repeating loop for a few seconds...then it fades away.
- Played with decay settings etc, but it always fades.
Is this as "infinite" as the sustain gets on the SP?
Is the real/better way to do this to lock the drumloop tempo to the SP's tempo and retrigger the drumloop sample at the first beat of the SP's bar?
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DFACE DXA
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yeah its not a loop feature to play thru sequences. its to make your samples longer. i think thats a decent explanation someone else feel free to expand if needed. i dotn really ever use teh loop function. for some random things you can get cool shit tho not to completely sleep on it.
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goldenmean
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..you cant loop drum loops that way. thats more of a decay effect for the tails of samples to carry over. i dont think most folks use it alot, but it can be nice once in a while. it works best when you use it on atmospheric sounds.
if you want to loop a drum loop. truncate the beginning tight and leave a little space at the end, play it with the pad, and tap the tempo to get a ballpark of what bpm it is. then either step or manually place it at the 1 on the sequencer and play the sequence. that is what loops the sound.
then start doing this in more complex ways.
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kb
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thanks. I ended up doing something along what you guys suggested:
recording a sequence at a slow tempo, with the truncated loop on the first step of the sequence, bass on the one and hat in 16ths.
I then increased the tempo until the SP's sequence best-aligned with the loop. couldn't get it absolutely perfect (need to do a better job truncating the loop), but it made me appreciate being able to adjust tempo in 0.1 steps.
more practice...
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