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Hey everyone

I have a problem in that whenever I record something (for example drum beats using Impulse), once I stop recording and play it back, when it reaches the end of the track it automatically loops itself, which is fine as it's what I want anyway, BUT it always puts in a little 1 second pause or gap between the tracks. It'll just keep looping indefinately but there're always these gaps throughout the song, which obviously I do NOT want as they totally ruin the rhythm. I just want to get rid of the pauses and have it continue on exactly as recorded throughout.

I have 2 ideas for how to fix it, but I'm not sure what I'm doing and can't find anything in the manual anywhere or the tutorials.

1. Something about "consolidate"? What does this actually do?
2. Turn off the snap to grid thing? Would it maybe then get rid of the 1 second pause between loops?

Thanks!

graceslick wrote:once I stop recording and play it back

You shouldn't click stop but rather click the recording clip's play button less than a bar before the wanted looping point.

Did you go through the lessons? Did you watch videos here and on youtube? Did you follow tutorials in this forum?

If you are new to a program please don't start using it with an end result in mind asking yourself all the time how to do this and how to do that but rather explore the software and discover the possibilities incidentally. After a few days of patiently exploring you automatically start developing little things targeted. After a few weeks you probably start producing whole songs. After a few years you maybe starting to compose master pieces.

Do you remember learning to write in school? I'd bet any amount that the first lesson was not about how to write a novel. Patience is the key to learning new skills.

Jörg