Help with loopy pro!!

randy

I just cant get the hang of this program. When ever I do something, I get a different result. I am trying to record an intro, sometimes the threshold recording comes on and sometimes it does not.
Sometimes i get the wave form icon on the top left of the first clip and sometimes it does not. I select record intro in the recording overide and the check mark goes on but if i disable the button the check mark is still there, does that mean it is still set for record intro, why would the check mark still be there if i shut the button off. I have watched so many videos and understand so much but i just cant get the basics working. Is there anyone that knows this stuff that can do a phone call or a screen share to help me. SO FRUSTRATED! Let me know Thanks

wim

Think of the checkbox as saying "Override any default setting with this setting." If the setting itself happens to be the same as the default, then there's no effect.

Remember that settings are hierarchical.

Clip settings override Color settings and Global settings.
Color settings override Global settings.

So in answer to your question, if you disable the button and the checkmark is still there the "override" is still there, but it's doing nothing. The reason for it to remain is it's an override. You may have set something different at a higher level. Let's say you have an orange clip and you set the orange color for record intro, but at the clip level you turned it off. Without the override you would get intro recording from the Orange color setting.

wim

This may help from the manual:

Intro recording: When beginning a recording count-in – a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for [intro] recording – Loopy Pro will begin listening, and will start recording the intro section when the audio level crosses a threshold, up to the end of the count-in duration.

Note: I don't think intro recording and auto loop detection of the first loop are compatible. For intro recording to work, I believe the clock needs to be running.

@espiegel123 I think there's a typo in the manual. [intro] reads "tail" in the manual.

wim

Regarding the wave form icon:
https://wiki.loopypro.com/First_Clip

Check if tempo and/or loop length is already set when your first loop doesn't get the wave glyph.

espiegel123

@wim said:
This may help from the manual:

Intro recording: When beginning a recording count-in – a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for [intro] recording – Loopy Pro will begin listening, and will start recording the intro section when the audio level crosses a threshold, up to the end of the count-in duration.

Note: I don't think intro recording and auto loop detection of the first loop are compatible. For intro recording to work, I believe the clock needs to be running.

@espiegel123 I think there's a typo in the manual. [intro] reads "tail" in the manual.

@wim : Thanks. That paragraph could use some cleaning up. Can you say more about what you mean “[intro] reads “tail” “?

wim

Intro recording: When beginning a recording count-in – a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for tail recording – Loopy Pro will begin listening, and will start recording the intro section when the audio level crosses a threshold, up to the end of the count-in duration.

Shouldn't "a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for tail recording" be "a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for intro recording"?

espiegel123

@wim said:

Intro recording: When beginning a recording count-in – a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for tail recording – Loopy Pro will begin listening, and will start recording the intro section when the audio level crosses a threshold, up to the end of the count-in duration.

Shouldn't "a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for tail recording" be "a value for “Count In Quantization” is required for intro recording"?

Oops! Got it

randy

Thanks, I understand the intro now. I am having a tough time understanding the outro or tail as some times it records and sometimes it does not.

espiegel123

@randy said:
Thanks, I understand the intro now. I am having a tough time understanding the outro or tail as some times it records and sometimes it does not.

Please see the questions I posted in response to your Facebook posts about this and answer them. In one video the short tail was recorded. In the other video , there was no tail to record.

A tail is sound that continues on above 40 or 60 db after the recording stop. There needs to still be sound at the time recording ends. It is intended to capture delay and reverb tails and notes that are fading out.

It also helps us help you if you give a thread a title that indicates what you Ned help with. For example, “ Help needed with tail recording”