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Topic: Someone help me out with the looping?

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Hey guys, could someone help me out with the looping, I get the beat count loops, but i really don't get the whole loop in and out buttons, what they do, and the difference between.

Thanks,
 
Posted Sun 13 Nov 11 @ 8:00 pm
The loop in button is where the loop will begin and when you click or press the loop out then you're setting where the loop will end. Once you click the loop in and then loop out, you will have created a loop that will repeat from the loop in(where you set it) to the loop out point you set. Then you can click the loop out one more time to get rid of the loop.
 
press loop in where you want the loop to begin
press loop out where you want the loop to end, everything in between will loop until you press loop out...
 
djrasza wrote :
press loop in where you want the loop to begin
press loop out where you want the loop to end, everything in between will loop until you press loop out...


Well said - play around with the looping - with practise you should figure it all out. Good luck
 
or just press the numbers 2 or 4 or 6, then when you have a loop, press 9 to make the loop longer and 8 to make the loop shorter
 
Another way to use loops is to hit 8, 16, or 32 bars with sets the loop length, then on a downbeat trigger a cue point. The loop will then be moved to start at the cue point and will keep the length you set initially.

This technique works for me when I want to set an outro loop on a track i'm playing, so I can start to synch the cue track where I want it to come in.

I've tried setting loop intros manually, but since the "In" button doesn't snap to the beat grid it's hard to get the loop start exactly right. The cue point technique lets me do this.

In preparing tracks, I usually make the #1 cue point the place where I want to start the intro loop for a track, then use the #10 (key 0) cue point to indicate the place where I want to start the outro loop. I probably need to switch all those #10's to 8 so I can fit on a controller's available mappings, but this technique seems to be working for me so far.

I'm mostly spinning house and hip hop, and I use longer loops to give me time to synch and crossfade, so this technique may not work as well for shorter loops that are 1, 2, or 4 beats.

I am curious if others are using different techniques that could work better for this.
 
you can always combine the two actions of hot cue 1 and loop, guess what the script is?

hot_cue 1 & loop

There is also a mapping in here that saves the loop size with some creative mapping, You will need vdj pro however if you want to map anything but the keyboard. Also if you register pro you can download the "cues event" plugin that will automatically engage a loop when vdj hits the cue in the track for the outro loops, so you don't need to worry about triggering it.

http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/154891/Wishes_and_new_features/SAVE_LOOOPS_.html
 


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