Playing back a section continuously
Cycle allows you to play a section of your project in a continuous loop. This can be helpful for practicing, songwriting, and mixing.
- Create a new Cycle: Click and drag on the Time Ruler
- Edit the Cycle area: Click and drag the start or the end of the Cycle
- Disable Cycle: Click on the red Cycle area in the Time Ruler. Alternatively, click the
Cycle icon on the Transport Bar
- Create a Cycle on a new region: Click and drag on the new region to create a new Cycle. The previous Cycle will be deleted.
- When you press play, the playhead will snap to the start of the Cycle range
- When you press stop, the playhead will jump back to start of the Cycle
- When you press pause from the Transport Bar, the playhead will stop at the current position
- Press back to reset the playhead to the start of the Cycle
- While the Cycle is active, you can still move the playhead to any position
- Create a new Cycle: Double-tap on the Time Ruler
- Edit the Cycle area: Tap and drag the start or the end of the Cycle
- Disable Cycle: Tap once on the red Cycle area in the Time Ruler
- Delete Cycle: Double-tap on the Cycle
- Create a Cycle on a new region: Double-tap on the new region to create a new Cycle. The previous Cycle will be deleted.
- When you press play, the playhead will snap to the start of the Cycle range
- Press pause to stop the playhead, press play again to resume playback from the same position
- Press back to return to the playheads previous start position or to the start of the Cycle range
- The Playhead can be moved manually to any position within the inside of the Cycle range
- The Playhead can also be moved before the Cycle when it is active, it will then loop around as soon as it enters the Cycle range
- The playhead can be moved after the Cycle range, too, and it will behave independently
Recording in Cycles
Otherwise known as comping, comp recording, or loop recording, you can record multiple takes in cycles on BandLab Web and select the best ones for you to use in your project! You can use a combination of different takes in your project, too. This feature is currently only available on BandLab Web.
- On the Time Ruler, select the section you'd like to repeat and enable
Cycle
- Click the
Record button to start recording
- Keep recording new takes with each cycle.
- Stop recording whenever you're done, right-click on the recorded audio region, and go to Select a Version
- Click on the Take you'd like to use in your song
Using different takes in a single project
Each take is tied to the audio region itself, so you can copy and paste the region across different sections in the song, then repeat the same steps to select the version you want to use:
- Select the region and hit Ctrl + C on your keyboard, or right-click and select Copy
- Go to the section of the song where you'd like the region to be and hit Ctrl + V on your keyboard or right-click on an empty space and select Paste
- Right-click on the newly pasted region and go to Select a Version
- Click on the preferred Take to select it
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