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8 - TwistaLoop
Introduction
TwistaLoop is a tool that automatically analyzes any audio by dissecting it into its
rhythmic components. This allows you create and edit multiple loop points and
regions, and have total control over tempo using real-time audio time expansion/
compression.
You can playback analyzed samples at a custom speed, or in time with Emulator X’s
clock (or an external clock source). Analyzing a sample with TwistaLoop consists of
three easy steps:
1. Run Beat Analysis on the sample.
2. Verify that you achieved the desired results, and make any fine adjustments to the
analysis.
3. Create as many loops and regions from the analyzed sample as you want.
Once you create loops or regions from an analyzed sample, you can do the following:
• Change the playback speed of any loop.
• Choose which loops are repeated when played back.
• Set up a continuous controller to change in real time which loop plays.
• Sync your loops to Emulator X’s master tempo, or to an external tempo sources,
such as a VST host.
• Play different beats or bars from the same sample.
Analyzing Beats In the Sample Edit Window
To run Beat Analysis on a sample, you’ll need to start in the Sample Edit Window.
To Get to the Sample Editor Window
• Click on any sample in the tree to view that sample in the Sample Editor
window.
• Double-click on any sample in the “Voices and Sample Zones” window.
Running Beat Analysis
Beat Analysis looks at a sample and determines its rhythmic aspects. Once you analyze
the sample, it’s easy to create loops based on the Beat and Note Markers that Beat
Analysis produces. This process is easy, and produces great accuracy.
To Run Beat Analysis:
1. Select the sample you want to analyze and click anywhere in the sample display.
2. From the Sample Edit menu, select Beats, Beat Analysis, or press Ctrl-b on your
keyboard. The following dialog appears:
8 - TwistaLoop
Introduction
For more
information on using the
Sample Edit window, see
Editing a Sample on
page 155.
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