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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0006505 | ardour | features | public | 2015-08-11 01:04 | 2015-10-25 23:40 |
| Reporter | naught101 | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Summary | 0006505: Per-track looping | ||||
| Description | So, this is a request inspired by Bitwig/Ableton's session view, but I know Ardour has a history of coming up with interesting and innovative interfaces, so I'm not requesting a session view. I'm requesting a feature that provides the most useful aspects of the session view, namely: - The ability to loop parts on some tracks, while playing normally on other tracks. This is most useful for the small-scale musician, who has a bunch of nice parts together, and wants to improvise over them on a new track. For example, you have a 4 bar drum part, and an 8-bar keys loop, and you want to play them repeatedly, at the same time as recording an improv guitar track of indefinite length. Later, you can come back and play with re-arranging the good parts of the guitar track into a song. - The ability to switch between pre-defined loops on a track, while playing. Useful if you already have a few different parts (e.g. drums, bass, what ever) that go together, but you're not sure about the arrangement, or how long each section needs to be. Ideally live switching from one loop to the next would occur when the playing loop ends. --- As for interfaces, aside from session view (especially Bitwig's arrange+session combo view), inspiration might be taken from things like pedal loop stations (and this might work well with midi controllers). Perhaps a panel at the right end of the track view that lines up with the tracks, and contains pre-defined loops (which are just existing regions, I guess?). | ||||
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