#7

Am i wrong to think it’s Windows only ?

#8

Forgot about that small detail.

#9

Too bad. Twisted Wave seems ok, but i’d like to have Jason’s advice before pulling the trigger !

Thanks.

#10

You could do this in Reaper pretty easily. Free trial too.

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#11

To place the start of the selection to the marker, use these options.
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You should also be able to drag markers without duplicating them, not sure what’s going on there.

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#12

I can recommend TwistedWave best audio editor for me

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#13

I recommend Goldwave

#14

reaper!

select and adjust a loop while auditioning it

‘r’ to toggle time selection loop, drag time selection

once i’m happy with this loop, set the loop points as start and end of a region

shift+r - region from time selection

leave the right loop point unchanged, drag the left loop point to the right

drag the left loop point across the right loop point and the end becomes the beginning

adjust the next loop
and so on,

&c

and then, finally, export all these regions to single audio files.

cmd+option+r : render dialog, or use the region render matrix to select which busses to render per region

(there is also a “clear selection, place marker, extend selection to next marker, markers to regions” workflow)

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#15

Thanks, this helps. i’m almost there, but there are still two things that bother me : the loop isn’t updated until i mouse up. And when zooming in to set the end point, the focus gets back to the starting point. That’s making the process much longer and tedious. Sorry to be so picky, but i’ll have to do this for hours if not days, so this matters a lot.

And before going into cutting those files, i had a dreadful doubt :

in the end, this will be played by a max/MSP patch looping a portion, then, after some time, move to the next portion, seamlessly (i mean, no ‘click’). So a totally different approach would be to do all the stuff in max/MSP. Set up a cue list, and then use the list to drive playback.

EDIT : trying as i am typing. In Twisted wave, place markers, then export the markers as a .csv file, that make a list of cue almost ready for the use in a coll in max/MSP, i think i’ll investigate this.

#16

Many thanks for the detailed explanation !
I’ll try this if my previous try isn’t that good.

#17

So, Reaper is quite nice (once you’ve set up your shortcuts), and can also export markers as a cue list.
The only thing i miss is to automatically snap to zero crossings when selecting the loop. Any idea ?

#18

maybe it’s not the most common sound editor, but QLab would be up to the task I guess

https://figure53.com/qlab/

#19

if I got well… try Recycle by Propellerheads.

#20

Not really. I want to create loops within a long file. Not slices within a loop.
I think i’m going the Reaper route. I’m a bit overwhelmed with the shortcuts and customization but i’ve got the feeling that it’s worth it.

#21

Here i come with another request !

What could i use to apply short fades to the start and end of hundreds of files ?

#22

I read this in your first post… Recycle able you to export a single sliced REX file or many files, one for each slice that you selected.
for your new question I remember a sw called Sample Manager, it works like AppleScript

  • define a list of sequential audio operations
  • apply this list to a list of audio files
#23

sox! http://sox.sourceforge.net

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#24

ffmpeg!

ffmpeg -i in.wav -af "afade=d=0.25:curve='qsin', areverse, afade=d=0.25:curve='qsin', areverse" faded.wav

this horrible hack reverses the file, applies input fade, reverses again, so you don’t need to know the duration.

(sox syntax for fade-out is smarter but tbh i have never really learned it.)

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#25

In TwistedWave you can File > Batch Processing > Fade In/out

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#26

Thank you all for all the informations, you rule.

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