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8 - TwistaLoop
Analyzing Beats In the Sample Edit Window
Try selecting an entire bar and playing it back. Make sure Snap to Marker is
selected. If you want to hear the bar loop, select Loop Play from the toolbar or
Transport menu.
If Beat Analysis was able to analyze your sample, you should hear a perfect loop of
your sample. You you can then create a loop from this bar to use as a voice. If you’re
unhappy with the way your sample was analyzed, you can run Beat Analyzer again, or
you can fine tune the analysis manually.
Markers
After you analyze your sample, the horizontal ruler above the sample changes to the
Bar:Beats scale. Beat Markers and Note Markers appear in the ruler, with the initial
beat of each bar containing an orange center . You can turn the markers on or off by
clicking the buttons in the toolbar, or by right-clicking the ruler, and selecting
Show Note Markers or Show Beat Markers.
Beat Marker
Bar:
Beat:
The Triplet Button
If your sample contains triplets and you want Emulator X to play them back as
triplets when you change the tempo, click the Triplet button.
Sensitivity
Beat Markers determine the location of each beat. When you create
loops, make sure your loops begin and end on Beat Markers. This way,
your loops properly sync to your tempo source.
Note Marker Note markers appear on note onsets determined by Beat Analysis. They
allow Emulator X to determine where Beat Markers should go, and they
work in the background to adjust your loops to the tempo you are
using.
Bar/Beat The Bar and Beat is shown next to each Beat Marker.
Tempo Beat Analysis calculates the original tempo of a group of beats (by
default one bar). When you change the tempo of a loop, Emulator X
uses this tempo to correctly synchronize the loop to your tempo.
The sensitivity setting determines the resolution of how Note Markers will be
displayed. You can set the sensitivity in percentage from 0 to 100:
Or, if you click the Beats button, you can set the sensitivity ranging from eight bars
intervals (8/1) to sixteenth note intervals (1/16):
For example, if you set the sensitivity to 1/8, Note Markers fall on note onsets that
appear near eighth notes. Similarly, setting the sensitivity to 1/16 causes Note Markers
to fall on note onsets near sixteenth notes.
• A letter “t” next to a sensitivity setting indicates triples.
• A letter “d” next to a sensitivity setting indicates duplets.
Tip: You can make
specific Note Markers
always appear, regardless
of the sensitivity. Rightclick
the Note Marker,
and select Show
Always. To reverse this
setting, right-click the
marker and uncheck
Show Always.
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