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Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:54 pm**

Stevee00 wrote:

crumhorn wrote:I came across another use of this effect recently - to have a note that starts before the end of the loop and ends just after the start of the loop

Something like this

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                       |__________________ Loop __________________|
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                       |__________________ Loop __________________|

Crumhorn, It's not obvious what this does, what it sounds like? Are these notes going up a scale?

You're right - Once I started to write that post I realized how hard it is to explain.

All I needed to show really was this

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                       |__________________ Loop __________________|
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                       |__________________ Loop __________________|

But I wanted to put it into some sort of context - I was trying to represent a rolling arpeggio.

I often come across situations where I want to make a loop from something I played in while improvising, but there is nowhere to cut the loop without truncating a note that should continue across the loop boundary and hold into the next iteration of the loop

Hope that clarifies it some.

Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:24 pm**

i just had to chime in and say this is awesome

like others I've been wondering about this for years also

a fishing sinker does a good job too

but great tip! something as barebones and simple as the position of the loop brace might change the music i make forever! ha!

Posted: **Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:24 am**

Angstrom wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:30 pm
This is easy to do, and it doesn't require extra-long notes or strange rack configurations ... Just a few bars of one note and the loop set so it cuts off the note-end.

I'm away from a computer, so from memory:

Make a note that starts at 1.0.0, set the note end at 4.0.0
Set the clip start marker at 1.0.0
Set the loop braces to - start: 2.0.0 , - end 3.0.0

Now the note will start immediately, but because the note end is never reached (because the loop restarts before the note ends) you have an eternal note.

Stopping the clip will "unlatch", or end the note

13+ years later and this is still the trick. BRILLIANT!!!

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