Looping playback doesn't work

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Looping playback doesn't work

The WaveBurner manual says you can loop playback in Waveburner by dragging in the time ruler to create a cycle area (page 32 of the PDF manual). This used to work for me but no longer does. Dragging in the time ruler does zilch.

Anyone else having this problem, or know a solution. Looping playback was very helpful for working with plug-in settings. I'm not sure when this functionality was lost. Possibly with the installation of 1.6.1?

iMac 24, Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 22, 2010 11:54 AM

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Answer 1

May 24, 2010 11:38 AM in response to the-design-guy2

I too am having the same issue. Haven't found a fix as of yet. Will keep you posted, please do the same!

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Answer 2

May 26, 2010 12:39 PM in response to the-design-guy2

When you are on the time ruler you need to carefully place the mouse need the playhead...you then will see a little side arrow and all you have to do is click and drag your start and end points. If you are to the left of the play head the arrow will face right...if you're to the right of the playhead it will point left. Hope this helps...It was a little tricky for me to figure out at first as well.

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Answer 3

May 27, 2010 8:58 AM in response to the-design-guy2

Hi audiophile31,

Thanks for the solution! It's interesting to note that this only works in the TOP time ruler. The manual indicates it should work in either ruler (as I recall). And, you're right, the cursor does have to be close to the playhead.

Hopefully Apple will update the manual...or the program to be more intuitive. NOTE TO APPLE: It would be nice if there were an option (or default) to start the loop from the start position each time you hit the play button (rather than from where you left off in the loop). This was a feature requested in another string that I thought might be accommodated using the cycle loop (except I couldn't get it to work, hence my original posting). It would also be great to be able to set up two cycle areas and alternate between them by hitting option-play or some such command. I often import multiple mixes of a song and adjust plug-ins to compare the differences. Having two cycle areas I could alternate between would be really helpful in A/Bing the changes.

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Answer 4

May 28, 2010 9:47 AM in response to audiophile31

Sure enough. I guess I was trying to approach it like Logic and click drag wherever I wanted the loop, regardless of the SPL. Thank you very much for the clarity!

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