Jesse Chappell wrote: > > > > > > How do you audition a guitar solo, for instance? You'd want to listen > > > to it a few times without having to press stop/rewind/play every time? > > > > > Ah, the beauty of the English language, 'eh? 'Loops' (a noun) vs. 'looping'. > > (a verb) ;-) Now I understand your request. Since I am not an Ardour user I > > cannot say anything about the actual method used to do this in it's GUI. I > > seem to remember a symbol for this in it's transport, but I don't know.... > >Currently, this *can* be done in ardour, but the steps needed >are less than intuitive. > >1. make a range selection >2. right-click to popup menu, choose "Select->New Location from selection" > (note, *not* Selection->LoopSelection !!) >3. open the Locations window from the Windows menu >4. check the Loop column for the location you just made >5. Select the loop button (icon) in the transport bar >6. Position the playhead somewhere in or before the loop area > and press play. > >When you change the checked loop location you may have to reselect >the loop transport button (bug). Also, when you delete a location >(by shift-right-clicking on the marker bar), it won't delete it >from the location window (bug). > >I will do my best to make this a much more streamlined process >in future versions of ardour. > >jlc > > > > > > That worked fine! Thanks for that - roll on the docu project ... :) Cheers, Andy
