How to loop a clip?

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2013/04/24 23:28:41 (permalink)

How to loop a clip?

Likely a silly question but...

I'm trying to apply some EQ to a track in Sonar Producer 8.5.  The track is a kick drum which only strikes a few times in the song, so I'd like to take just 1 of the notes and loop it over and over while I'm messing around with the EQ settings. Short of copy / paste it 100 times in a row, is there a way to split it on either side and just have it play over and over while I EQ it?  Thanks in advance,

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    Re:How to loop a clip? 2013/04/25 01:48:30 (permalink)
    Groove clip it and drag. Or put it in a sampler and play it with your keyboard how you like.

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    Re:How to loop a clip? 2013/04/25 21:45:38 (permalink)
    If you select the clip or the time you want to repeat, turn on looping at the top of the screen and away you go.

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    Re:How to loop a clip? 2013/04/25 22:18:28 (permalink)
    +1.
    This allows you to focus on a specific area, without adding something you'll need to remove later.

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    Re:How to loop a clip? 2013/04/26 12:40:25 (permalink)

    Just to expand upon Roger's advice...

    Drag your mouse along the timeline to highlight the section you want to loop. Then click the loop button in the toolbar. It will set the loop points to the current selection, but you can drag the start and end markers if you need to make the looped region smaller or larger.
    If you've customized your toolbar such that the loop buttons aren't there, you can perform the same actions via the right-click context menu on the timeline.

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    Re:How to loop a clip? 2013/05/12 20:03:48 (permalink)
    When I have highlighted the timeline range that I want to loop, I use shift+l to enable looping and then use L to flip looping on and off as I want.
    post edited by gswitz - 2013/05/13 06:44:35

    StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen.
    I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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