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Jesse Chappell wrote:
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> > > How do you audition a guitar solo, for instance?  You'd want to listen

> > > to it a few times without having to press stop/rewind/play every time?

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> > Ah, the beauty of the English language, 'eh? 'Loops' (a noun) vs. 'looping'.

> > (a verb) ;-) Now I understand your request. Since I am not an Ardour user I

> > cannot say anything about the actual method used to do this in it's GUI. I

> > seem to remember a symbol for this in it's transport, but I don't know....

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>Currently, this *can* be done in ardour, but the steps needed

>are less than intuitive.

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>1. make a range selection

>2. right-click to popup menu, choose "Select->New Location from selection"

>   (note, *not*  Selection->LoopSelection !!)

>3. open the Locations window from the Windows menu

>4. check the Loop column for the location you just made

>5. Select the loop button (icon) in the transport bar

>6. Position the playhead somewhere in or before the loop area

>   and press play.

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>When you change the checked loop location you may have to reselect

>the loop transport button (bug). Also, when you delete a location

>(by shift-right-clicking on the marker bar), it won't delete it

>from the location window (bug).

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>I will do my best to make this a much more streamlined process

>in future versions of ardour.

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>jlc

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That worked fine!  Thanks for that - roll on the docu project ... :)

Cheers,
Andy