Making a selection (tues Sept 16)

OK, up to now, you've been collecting loops and just plunin' 'em down in a track, then moving and playing with them. Today, we wil be working with how to cut out pieces of a loop, and then save it as a new loop. It's called "Selection". Here is what I will need from you:

A) You will use ONE loop, and copy at least four different selections from it. In other words, you could copy out the first 10 seconds for one selction, the last five seconds for another, 11 seconds somewhere in the middle, etc etc.

B) You will email -- as attachments -- both the original loop, and the four pieces you cut out of it. Please remember to put your name and "period 6" in the subject line!

OK, so how do you do this "selection". Well, you can either watch me as I demonstrate, or you can follow these "cookbook" directions:

1) start Audtion, and get into "multitrack" view
2) import a loop, and lay it into a track somewhere
3) get into EDIT mode (its in that thing at the top right corner...I've shown you before)
4) make sure that the button under the INSERT menu is selected, the one that looks like a "I"
5) put your mouse where you wish to start your selection, hold down the left mouse button and drag until you wish to stop
6) Click on the FILE command, then click "Save Selection"
7) give the selection a name which you will remember
8) get back into multitrack mode, then import your selection as a loop.
9) lay it down into a new track to compare it to the old loop
10) lather, rinse, repeat :-)

Once you are done with this, you may proceed to working on your session files.

cheers,
Mr. L