clip looping newb SONAR 8

Hmm...
 
Are you changing your project tempo? If the Groove Clip plays back at the tempo it was recorded at (and no other alterations such as pitch or whatever have been applied) then it should just play back like a regular clip.
 
If you ARE changing your project tempo or fiddling with it somehow then what you are hearing is the "Online" rendering. This is inferior quality and is only meant as a reference for what your changes may sound like (such as stretching due to tempo changes).
 
When you are done then you need to use "Bounce To Clip(s)" from the right click menu to have the clip "rendered" using the "Offline" rendering algorithms which are far superior (but use more resources so can't be used in real time playback). There are multiple algorithms to choose from that can make the results of the render better based on the type of material being altered.
 
Sometimes the render doesn't eliminate all of the "artifacts" though (which is that warbling/weird arse noise you here). In that case you can go even deeper and open the Groove Clip in the Loop Constructor View and manually manipulate the transient markers to make it stretch better with less artifacts. That is kind of advanced though but worth reading up on.
 
Cheers.

Sounds like somehow the original clips are having a tempo (or maybe pitch) stamped to them then when you loop them they stretch to whatever your project tempo is (which would... from your perspective make them OOT).
 
I know there is some fiddly settings that can make weird crap like this happen but I'm not familiar enough to tell you where to look.
 
Or maybe it's a time sig thing. Is this project in an odd time sig (like compound)? Maybe that's borking something out in the process (again a Sig being stamped to the clip then when you loop it it tries to conform to the project sig).
 
Hopefully the other dudes can be more helpful.
 
Cheers.

Oh... this is in Sonar 8? Yeah I just became even more useless. I'm an X series brat. Things might have changed since 8.
 
Maybe put that in your title. Might get some more answers.
 
Cheers and good luck.

You need to check the grove clip for the # of beats - that is often the wrong guess by sonar, producing exactly your problem.

found 3 pages in help files on subject - thx again for responses

yeah - I'm finding help files BUT damn...shouldn't be this hard lol - wish Sonar would just be happy w/what I've chosen to be looped!

I just found loop inspector today & that's opened a whole other freakin world I don't wanna touch  - but I'm searching & also contacted Karl as per your suggestion - pretty detailed vids