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Okay, so I searched the forums, re-read the manual, even looked up the YouTube tutos, but I cannot find a feature, which I seem to remember is in VDJ8: setting a POI where a song automatically enters in a loop (for example, at the end of a song)... Any idea anyone?
 

Posted Sun 22 May 16 @ 7:35 pm
You can set an action poi with the action
loop 4

In the POI editor.
 

Posted Sun 22 May 16 @ 7:50 pm
Thanks, Dan. That did the trick! ...partly: How do I get the song to stay in that loop? Now it only loops once...
 

Posted Sun 22 May 16 @ 7:57 pm
Have answered a similar question in another post.

This action works for me:

loop ? nothing : loop_back ? loop_back & loop 4 & loop_back : loop 4 & loop_back
 

Posted Sun 22 May 16 @ 8:54 pm
I just did this for this weekends Gig.

What I did is

created a cue (3) point where I want it to start playing in POI, then created an action at the end of the song (to loop back to the cue 3)
and the action was just CUE 3

This does not stop at all. It keeps looping until you stop it.
 

Posted Mon 23 May 16 @ 3:20 am
how can I pre-listen while my sandbox is activated
 

Posted Mon 23 May 16 @ 7:18 am
Thanks for the pointers. guys!

I took a simpler road: make a cue1 POI where the loop starts, make a cue2 POI (macro action: goto_cue1) where the loop ends. The song will now enter automatically in a loop when it arrives at the cue1 point and will stay in that loop.

What I haven't figure out yet is a simple way to exit the loop (nice to have that option too... in case that were necessary)...
 

Posted Mon 23 May 16 @ 6:52 pm
My solution above makes it easy to exit. Just hit the loop button and the song continues to play normally.
 

Posted Mon 23 May 16 @ 8:55 pm
Deejay Corny wrote :
What I haven't figure out yet is a simple way to exit the loop (nice to have that option too... in case that were necessary)...


Set a custom button to the following:
var 'noloop' 0 ? off & set 'noloop' 1 : on & set 'noloop' 0


Then set your action loop to:
var 'noloop' 0 ? nothing : goto_cue 1


The you just click the custom button to switch the loop on or off.
 

Posted Mon 23 May 16 @ 9:17 pm
I'll try both and see what suits me best. Many thanks to you both!
:)
 

Posted Wed 25 May 16 @ 6:43 am
Hi Corny, how did you solve your autoloop thing ?
I might implement something similair since I like the idea.

Just thinking out loud, but if the loop is named the same in each track like "endloop" or something, VDJ could detect that and turn on, by script, the looping action.
 

Posted Fri 29 Jul 16 @ 8:14 pm
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
As an action point "loop 4" repeats which means you can fade it out.

Point info:

Name loop out
Type Action Macro action loop 4
Cue Marker only

I'm confused..this seems easy?????


 

Posted Fri 19 Aug 16 @ 11:41 pm
bigron1 wrote :
As an action point "loop 4" repeats which means you can fade it out.

Point info:

Name loop out
Type Action Macro action loop 4
Cue Marker only

I'm confused..this seems easy?????




Sorry bro thats wrong, If you use action loop 4 when it jumps back it'll shut the loop off.

The proper way would be to use "goto cue (whatever number you choose)"............
 

Posted Fri 19 Aug 16 @ 11:57 pm
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
I might be wrong but last night when I set up a loop 4 on my song it repeated??????
I'll try again, and also check my points.
There might be some kind of overlay on that point.

I'VE CONFIRMED THAT THE SIMPLE "loop 4" REPEATS AND EXITS ON PRESSING THE LOOP OUT BUTTON.
Strange..????.

I'll look at this matter further.

Just gone into a nice little "loop 16"

I suppose there could be a bug hanging around ???
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 9:04 am
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
I don't think any doubt exists that on my system if a loop action point is set then it will repeat until the loop out button is pressed.
It should be noted that if for any reason the playhead encounters such a point which has an active loop for whatever reason the loop will be exited.

This is all very simple.

djtouchdan was right in the first place.

 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 10:14 am
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
I have a 3 hour house set to do tonight consisting of 40 songs.
All are now being set up with loop out (end song) action points.
This is making my life so easy.

What I've done is right because it's simple!
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 10:25 am
Upload a video because when I try loop 4 it shuts off the loop after 1 cycle,

Meaning,

I set an action point for say loop 4 or loop 16, once the playhead hits that point the loop does turn on but once it goes back to the beginning (the loop starts over) it jump back and shuts the loop off.

I can make a video because I do not believe you when you say the loop stays.

I've always had to use a "goto" command for as long as I can remember.

And the 3rd post down by Corny PROVES your lying when you say it works because even he says it loops once and shuts off on the repeat.
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 11:18 am
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
Lying are strong words from someone who often finds VDJ 8 testing.
You have many threads in this forum where things don't work for you.

I'm running the very latest version of VDJ 8.2.
Others can easily check what happens. LOL!

I'm doing a set of 40 songs tonight, if all goes well I'll be back.
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 11:34 am
Ok Ron, but if I were you I would definitely not use "loop 1,2,4,16,32 or 64" and a POI action because it'll loop once and shut off.

Good luck, lmmfao!!
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 11:39 am
VDJ RonPRO InfinityMember since 2010
As an action point "loop 4" repeats which means you can fade it out.

Point info:

Name loop out
Type Action Macro action loop 4
Cue Marker only


Try it for yourselves!

loop 16 is an excellent loop size.

Remember not to leave the loop marked, you know, with the red or blue frame or it will deactivate that loop and continue straight through the action point.
 

Posted Sat 20 Aug 16 @ 11:41 am
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