Dave Phillips writes "In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy."
First up, a brief tutorial on using loops to create a track. I've employed the latest Ardour 2.1 for this article, but the examples should be realizable on any modern sequencer. In fact, Ardour itself isn't really a sequencer, but it happens to work nicely at the job.
After starting Ardour, we load a series of drum loops with the Session/Add Existing Audio dialog, assigning them to separate tracks (the default action). Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the process. By the way, pictures tell the story best here, so this article is a bit image-heavy.
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