Time for action—spreading out the loop
In Chapter 7, Getting It All Stacked up, we created a loop and variations. This time around, we need to spread the content of our main loop out for the duration of a song:
- Mute all of the elements in the Song Editor:
All of the tracks need to be muted. So make sure that all of the mute buttons are lit up:
- Grab the right-hand side of our sample, and trim the element so that it is only eight bars long. We are going to build this song in eight bar segments. Building a song in repeating eight bar chunks will give nice structure to the song's overall arrangement:
- Make sure to mute the sample once you're done.
- Now press Ctrl + click on the sample, and click again immediately to the right-hand side of the sample. Repeat this until you have 96 bars filled:
- Repeat this with all of the other elements. Your full arrangement length should be covered by all of the elements:
- Now that we have our arrangement spread out, we're going to create our early...
