I would like to see looping in the same way that GROOVE CLIPS loop

You record a short passage, hilight it and declare it to be a groove clip, then drag it across the track, and it fits to the tempo of the song. An awful lot of music is built around recurring passages, and its a lot faster to record a short segment and paint with it than it is to play the same thing over and over again without making mistakes or getting out of time. In that sense, groove clips would not be identical to real tracks, but they would be a useful alternative that fills a similar need. They are particularly useful for rhythm instruments playing repeating chord patterns, and also for decorative instruments playing recurring motifs

The other advantage of a groove clip is that you can play whatever you want for the recurring pattern, so you have some creative control (unlike real tracks where you have to accept what somebody else played). Providing this feature would give users a tool for those times when they want a specific pattern, but without opening up any trade secrets about how real tracks are made.

The concept of groove clips is found in many music packages (acid, FLstudio and sonar to name three) so it must not be proprietary.

Last edited by Pat Marr; 10/31/10 07:04 AM.
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