Looping Stretched Audio Track?

[Stephen Power]

I have stretched an audio track of recorded violin sounds to about 240% (ctrl+shift drag), and now I want to loop it in Cakewalk by Bandlab. But, the 'Groove Clip Looping'option is now greyed out (I could use it before the track was stretched).

Does anyone know of a way I can loop the stretched track please? Thanks for any suggestions.

Edited August 3 by Stephen Power

[mettelus]

Did you try bouncing the clip? Some functions are disabled until non-destructive edits are committed.

[Stephen Power]

22 hours ago, mettelus said:

Did you try bouncing the clip? Some functions are disabled until non-destructive edits are committed.

Thank you. I'll give it try and report back.

[Jonathan Sasor]

On 8/3/2024 at 5:17 AM, Stephen Power said:

I have stretched an audio track of recorded violin sounds to about 240% (ctrl+shift drag), and now I want to loop it in Cakewalk by Bandlab. But, the 'Groove Clip Looping'option is now greyed out (I could use it before the track was stretched).

Does anyone know of a way I can loop the stretched track please? Thanks for any suggestions.

Groove clip looping uses different stretching from a drag stretch. As mentioned, bouncing first will render that stretching, and let you turn on groove clip looping. Otherwise you could duplicate the clip too as opposed to doing a groove clip.

[Stephen Power]

20 hours ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

Groove clip looping uses different stretching from a drag stretch. As mentioned, bouncing first will render that stretching, and let you turn on groove clip looping. Otherwise you could duplicate the clip too as opposed to doing a groove clip.

Thank you for the help. I had duplicated the clip before posting here, but somehow thought it was not as precise as looping, but I could be wrong. I'm not actually sure of the difference.

Edited August 5 by Stephen Power

[mettelus]

Groove clips have the advantage that you can drag the right edge out to insert as many loops as you require, say if you want 32 bars of a 1-bar loop. Again, when you get the results you want, it is often best to bounce that to make it into a single audio file so that you can edit that result as you see fit. There are certain restrictions on editing to a groove clip and this will make sure they don't bite you.

Don't be afraid to bounce things. That creates a new audio file of what you have bounced. Cakewalk doesn't delete the original data so it will be in your project audio folder, but depending how complex that data was, you may want to do a Save As... prior to bouncing with a descriptive name, so you can back out of something later on if you need to. Bouncing clips and/or tracks can streamline your work, just realize what each one does for you.