Question

Im sure this is easy but I've spent two hours on this and I cant figure it out. Here's the problem: I want to make a loop out of some audio. So I carefully trim it. Now I want to just hit alt-D or D to duplicate the loop and make a continuous drum loop. But every time I paste the new loop, it pastes the complete audio clip, the parts that I trimmed off are back. How do you permanently delete cropped content so that when you copy and paste it, it will stay the length that you trimmed it to?

thanks

Answer 1

I don't know the answer but I have a suggestion. First, a loop is designed to be hung drawn and quartered and still retain it's duplication properties. So there's a step missing, you haven't told it to become a static clip and to stop being so clever. I suggest doing all your trimming and then Bouncing it. The Bounced version should now be a normal, 'dumb' audio clip and you should be able to dupe it without any misbehavior.

I'm had the same trouble with a MIDI measure, I trimmed it back to half a measure but I can still hear the other half ringing into the next chord because trimming the clip doesn't trim the contents!

I had to Undo, shorten all the notes to half their duration and then reduce the clip size.

Answer 2

Studio One is a nondestructive DAW so that's probably the reason the trimmed parts are still there. However, you could get rid of the trimmed parts by creating a Sample One instrument track then drag your audio into it and trim it there. Then using a MIDI controller, record the sample onto the instrument track and bounce it to a new audio track. Now you can duplicate it. I was able to do this with S1 V5.01 Pro