NEXTBEAT. Mess about with the loop.

0:00 Another quick video on the next beat

Alright guys, another quick video on the next beat. Now in this video I'm just going to have a mess around with loop in and loop out. Now however you use this to your benefit is entirely up to you but it's just showing you what you can do. So we've got this button here, press that, you start the loop, press that one, you finish the loop. What I'm going to do with the music stopped, nothing playing, I'm going to press loop in and loop out. So right, where's the loop? We can't hear anything plus the fact I hit them at both the same time. So, theoretically there's no loop at all. But if I pan closer to the screen, I just want to show you something. I don't know if you can see that area there. What we've got is we've got a thick line. Well that is actually three lines. You have loop in point, loop out point and you have the point at which the music is playing. You've got a small line and as this waveform that passes that line, that's the precise point where you're actually listening to in a sense.

0:59 In fact, if I move that like that, that's better

What I'm going to do now is just... In fact, if I move that like that, that's better. Right, I'm going to start to move this guy here, the in-adjust, and you should start to see one of those lines moving away from the other two. If I start to move this guy here, the out-adjust, you can see the other one. Now you can see the centre line. So let's just press play. This is the fun bit. What I can start to do is... By looking at this wave format, I can see points at which, let's say, the beat's starting to disappear and the next beat's coming in. Let's just have a listen to that. Right, what we've got underneath the screen, we've got 1 over 1, 1 over 2, 1 over 4 and 1 over 8. Now that's got nothing to do with bars, that's the timing involved with your loop. For example, 1 over 1 is, which is this guy here, is the entire loop.

1:59 A quarter and one over eight will be an eighth of that loop

A quarter and one over eight will be an eighth of that loop. So, let's press play. That's one over one. Let's press this guy here so we'll have half of the loop. Press this one here, one over four. A quarter of the loop. Press this one here, one over eight. This is an eighth of the loop. And again, listen. Now you imagine doing something like this over a track that's playing. You could have some wicked fun. There you go. In a sense it's just a bit of a demo. By the way, just to let you know as well, I'll be going to the Mobile Beat Show in Las Vegas 2010. It's in February at the Riviera Hotel and I will be taking the next beat with me. So if you go into that show and you see me and you want a bit of a demo and a mess around with it, come and tap me on the shoulder and you can have a play with it. Alright? Nice one. Practice and enjoy.

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