MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 119)

HDR 24/96
The length of the loop is equal to the region length displayed on the screen and in the Region
Edit window. Trim the length if necessary before looping the region. When Loop mode is
enabled, the region selected for looping may then be stretched out to repeat for any desired
length of time. The number of repeats need not be an exact multiple of the loop length. It’s
possible, for example, to have three and a half loops.
Small tic marks on the Region base and top delineate the start and end of each repeated
section within the extended loop. Of course multiple Regions may be looped at one time, for
up to 24 tracks of loopy playback.
A looped region can be dragged around, copied, cut, and pasted just like any other region.
PLEASE NOTE: A region's Volume Envelope does not get repeated along with the audio
within the Region. Whatever the volume is at the end of the region, that’s where it will
remain throughout the looping.
Say you’ve selected the perfect two measures of kick drum to loop and used the Node tool to
cut out the snare leakage between hits. Before you loop the region, Render the track to
permanently capture those mutes. To save disk space and avoid trimming later, just render
from the start to end of the selection. Then drag the rendered version into the Track area and
loop that.
You must enable LOOP for each region individually (there’s no global LOOP enable
command), but once LOOP-enabled, you can select multiple Regions and drag them all out
together for looping as a group – a couple of measures of the full drum kit, for example.
Looping is most frequently used to create rhythmic patterns, but Region Looping may even
be used to create effects such delay repeats.
Region Lock
Region Lock prevents a Region from being moved or edited, though a locked Region can be
copied. A selected Region can be locked by right-clicking in the
Region and selecting Lock from the pop-up menu, or by clicking on
the LOCK button in the Region Editor window The background of
a locked Region turns dark gray to indicate its locked state, and the
locked region gets a red border when it's selected
Region Lock status is a toggle. Unlock a locked Region by clicking on the LOCK button in
the Region Editor or uncheck Lock from the right-click pop-up menu.
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