Loop editing
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:11 am
I've skimmed the Feature Request forum and didn't see this mentioned - pretty surprised as I would have assumed this would be a top request: Editing loops. It would be fantastic if there was a way to do some basic edits to the recorded loops.
Trim - Make the loop a shorter length.
You record a 4 measure part, but then decide you only want the first 2 measures. Or you're trying to play a difficult part; instead of canceling every time you flub a note and having to re-arm the recording, you just play the part over and over and when you get it, you trim the multi-take loop down to the right section.
Silence - zero out a section, but keep the loop length the same.
You play a great part, and then hit a wrong note as you're going for the Finish Record button. Or you record a part with 2 sections - you really like the second section, but think you can do the first one better - silence the first part and then create a new loop to get it right. Bonus points: make it non-destructive, a volume automation curve.
Reverse- c'mon, it would be awesome to edit and reverse parts of your loop!
Besides editing a loop, it would be great if you could "flip over the tape" and immediately put all tracks in reverse to record your part (and then flip the tape again to put the other tracks forward, while the last thing gets reversed)
Copy and paste (overwrite) - repeat sections of your loop while maintaing the loop length.
Copy and paste (insert) - repeat sections of your loop increasing the overall length.
Copy and paste (new loop) - take a section (or the whole loop) and copy it into a new loop - coupled with, Trim, Silence and Reverse you can start to make some very interesting things....
Time slide - move the start point of the loop.
For correcting slight timing issues, or for just mucking around. Bonus points: elastic audio / flex-time editing of the audio in the loop.
OK, I could keep going on, but these tools would accomplish a lot and make this great app even more of a monster than it is!
One other thing: Have you checked out the "looping" apps? ProLoop, Loopy 2, Everyday Looper, SooperLooper.... oh wait!
Slightly different category of app, but there are some very cool features and techniques that could be folded into ThumbJam to make it the ultimate performance instrument. For example: overdubbing and ending recording of one loop and immediately going into record on the next loop. Also implementing all the above edits in realtime, while the loops are playing....
Another, other thing: I think it's been discussed, but recording as MIDI would be very cool - it would make quantizing and flex-time easier to implement and allow performances to be exported to play on more powerful synths.
Trim - Make the loop a shorter length.
You record a 4 measure part, but then decide you only want the first 2 measures. Or you're trying to play a difficult part; instead of canceling every time you flub a note and having to re-arm the recording, you just play the part over and over and when you get it, you trim the multi-take loop down to the right section.
Silence - zero out a section, but keep the loop length the same.
You play a great part, and then hit a wrong note as you're going for the Finish Record button. Or you record a part with 2 sections - you really like the second section, but think you can do the first one better - silence the first part and then create a new loop to get it right. Bonus points: make it non-destructive, a volume automation curve.
Reverse- c'mon, it would be awesome to edit and reverse parts of your loop!
Besides editing a loop, it would be great if you could "flip over the tape" and immediately put all tracks in reverse to record your part (and then flip the tape again to put the other tracks forward, while the last thing gets reversed)
Copy and paste (overwrite) - repeat sections of your loop while maintaing the loop length.
Copy and paste (insert) - repeat sections of your loop increasing the overall length.
Copy and paste (new loop) - take a section (or the whole loop) and copy it into a new loop - coupled with, Trim, Silence and Reverse you can start to make some very interesting things....
Time slide - move the start point of the loop.
For correcting slight timing issues, or for just mucking around. Bonus points: elastic audio / flex-time editing of the audio in the loop.
OK, I could keep going on, but these tools would accomplish a lot and make this great app even more of a monster than it is!
One other thing: Have you checked out the "looping" apps? ProLoop, Loopy 2, Everyday Looper, SooperLooper.... oh wait!
Slightly different category of app, but there are some very cool features and techniques that could be folded into ThumbJam to make it the ultimate performance instrument. For example: overdubbing and ending recording of one loop and immediately going into record on the next loop. Also implementing all the above edits in realtime, while the loops are playing....
Another, other thing: I think it's been discussed, but recording as MIDI would be very cool - it would make quantizing and flex-time easier to implement and allow performances to be exported to play on more powerful synths.