Loops V1 in Wavelab Pro

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Loops V1 in Wavelab Pro

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today let's talkabout loops in wavelab but before westart I want to remind you that there'sa link below to the free contentnavigation guide which is an easy tonavigate webpage with links to all thecontent on this channel and besides thatin the near future I'm going to beginadding tips and other bits ofinformation that will only be availablethere you know things like simple stepsthat will get you started and up andrunning quick things that are in thevideos but are written down in simplesteps that serve as quick reminders whenyou need information down the road ifyou're working with programs likewavelab or Cubase plugins or the cableguys shaper Box 2 and many many otherprojects that are in the works then Iknow you're going to find just like Ihave that this is an invaluable studyAid and the other thing I want to makesure you understand is that this is nota simple PDF this is a constantlyupdated page that has any informationthat is new or anytime videos arechanged really anything up updated andonce you have it you will always havethe latest information constantlyupdated so if you haven't gotten italready go to the link below click on itand save it to your favorites it's mygift to you and it's absolutely freeOkay so let's get started so anotherthing in wave lab is the ability tocreate and edit Loops it has a set oftools in place for that task so let'shave a look at some of those options sowe have a sample of a flute hereand we want to make a loop out of it sowhat do we do first thing is to createsome kind of section or selection in itbasically taking your best shot at whereyou think it can loop from go down andturn on your Loop area down in thetransport so let's see what we have herethat's actually pretty good the nextthing is to right click in this area andthen we have an option that says createloop from selections we're going to takethatand wavelab puts Loop markers aroundthat selection another option is down onyour transport there's a button thatsays play the audio range and if youright click on that button you have someoptions one of them is you want to playthe time selection or would you want itto play the region between the markersfor this let's switch it to regionbetween the markers what that does iswhether it's selected or notthe audio will continue to play once itgets between those two markerson your Loop area you have an option toset it up to play continuously play ittwice three times four times five timesyou have these options if you want themI'm going to leave it on playcontinuouslyand that's the beginning of the processif it was you know major Clicks in hereor I didn't like these Loop points Iwould move these markers around a littlebit but I actually got it pretty goodright from the start hereso typically when you make a loop a lotof times you don't get it so easily inplace and you get clicks and pops at thevarious Crossing placesand we're in the audio editor here notthe Montage at this point this is theaudio editor if you go up to the processtab click on that you have a button overhere in the area that says loop it'scalled the tweaker hit the tweaker andthis has a whole bunch of buttons butit's pretty cool if you look up hereyou're obviously seeing a picture of thewave of the loop and what you're seeingis there's a line in the middle it's avery fine line you might not be able tosee it very well on the video and on theleft side of that line is where the loopstart is graphically showing you and onthe right side is at the Loop end soagain that would correspond to down hereon the loop where it actually ends andthen comes back around again which isthe tricky thing to get where it endshere and comes back around usually aclick or a pop so what happens is if youplay your Loop and let's go on to thisLoop end for a minute if I hit thesebuttons there's arrows here there's fourarrows here under the loop end andthere's four arrows under the loop startand this is another example of where themanual is completely backwards from thereality of it because it describesdrives these buttons in totallybackwards from what they are what reallyis going on here is the buttons on theend here you have these four buttons youhave a left arrow and a right arrow ifyou can see the Wave It's Kind againit's hard to see in the resolution butif I move this arrow on the left it kindof starts marqueeing the wave you cansee it slowly start moving to the rightthe left wave is moving to the right andthis allows you to kind of try tomanually find a good spot to cross themover if I go to this Arrow over on theright it does the same thing it startsmoving it Marquee like the other way butthe buttons in the middle the twobuttons in the middle will try to makeit automatic search for the best crossso if I hit this you'll see it jump towhere it gives you a real real goodmatch of what it thinks is going to bethe best crossing point and what you cando is play your sample and let it Loopand then just keep hitting these buttonsuntil you find one that works best foryoulet's go the other way I'm gonna hit itthree or four times hereand you can do the same thing on theother side you hit the outside buttonsand it'll kind of Marquee its way on theend herecase you want to try to fine-tune ityourself or you can hit this Auto searchthat's pretty goodall right so then we have some optionsavailable to us over on the display sidehere first up you have the stereo mergeso if you look at this waveform it'ssplit into the left and the right if youhit the stereo merge then you see theleft and the right together here I findthis rather confusing to look at butit's an option I'm going to uncheck thatthe next one says overlap this is verydifficult to see at least on my screenas I do the Marquee thing like I wassaying if I split the screen a littlebitwith the overlap on you can see almostin a ghost like writing the wavecontinues from one side to the other soyou can actually see the waves if youtake that overlap off then you only seethe visible left and right sides youhave an option here that says displaythe processed audio this won't come intoeffect until we talk about the crossFades and then the last option theautomatic vertical zooming you can seethat it fills the screen right now if Iuncheck that then it's a smaller waveyou have zoom levels below it and if youclick on those you can see it changesthe way the wave looks and that appliesto both the automatic vertical zoomingand without itthen you get this information in themiddle from the automatic search and thefirst thing you see here is this currentcorrespondence you see two numbers looksalmost like a fraction because it's aslash and the number on the left is kindof showing you what they've come up withsimilar wave Cycles which ones aresimilar and the one on the right showsthe similar samples at the Loop pointsthe bottom line is the higher thenumbers the better the match and I havefound it to be true if you click thesearrows and you look at these numbersyou're going to see the numbers go upand down and change and right now I hitthe highest one I've seen so far at 975and 962 and it came up with a reallygood match listen to thisit's almost like you can't even hear theloopso this is a really good option to lookat and then this next option says theaimed correspondence and it goesanywhere from zero to a thousand andonce again it's just the higher you setthis number the more accurate it's gotto be to pass the test basically soright now mine is set at 800 and it dida really good job I could boost it up toa thousand but then it has to beabsolutely perfect and I'm not surethat's necessary but that's what thedifference is if you raise or lowerthese numbers and then the last one isthe search accuracy and that goesanywhere from one to nine again meaningthat how many samples it's going to lookat to compare these results so againthis is set at six I could go up fartheror I could bring it back down obviouslythese are things to experiment with butthis produced an excellent result rightwhere it was you have the option to linkthe start and end points if you do thatand then start hitting the arrows onthis Loop end it will make changes onthe loop start and vice versa and thenthis feature that comes up so many timesin the Steinberg products and I justthink it's an absolute a great optionwhen they give you these options to kindof make memories of certain settingslike in other words I could hit thesenumbers and change them then I can hitmemory one over here then I can hitthese arrows a few times try somedifferent numbers hit memory two andthen I can compare these and see whichone I like betterand that's going to wrap it up for todayas usual if you haven't grabbed yournavigation guide be sure to grab thatbefore you go links to all the contenton the channel ever growing free to useI don't know if you create Loops inwavelab or if you create them in yourDaw of choice but what we do here is weexplore every option that the programsdo so we understand it if we need it andwhen we need it I must admit the tweakershows some very interesting options interms of precision in wave lab neverfails to amaze me at some of the stuffthat has been put into this programwe will continue and as always it'sgreat to have you guys here I'll see youin the next video