Loop building view

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The loop building view contains and controls your drum loops. In this view, you can create short drum pieces – the drum loops – from wave files that contain sampled drum hits.

A portion of the loop building view is shown on the picture below. To see this view (in case you are looking at another view), click on View and then on Loop Building View in the menu or click on the loop building view button ( View loop building view button ) of the view toolbar.

Orinj loop building view

Functionality

The purpose of this view is to create and mix drum loops. The following are examples of things you can do in the view:

Loop building menu

See Loop building menu. The menu is at the top of Orinj. It contains the commands that allow you to perform the tasks listed above.

Marker line and time line

The following are the two panels under the menu.

Wave sample tree

The tree in the left portion of Orinj shows the folder structure of the ../loop/ folder of the Orinj installation and contains the sampled drum hits that you can use. You can drag those drum hits to any of the loop tracks in the right portion of Orinj.

Tracks

The tracks take the largest portion of the view, under the time line. The actual tracks to the right display the loop beats. It shows you what wave sample is used for the track beats and where beats are in the loop. In the picture below, for example, the track uses the wave sample for a Yamaha 14x10 inch snare and the snare is hit on the 2 and 4 of a 4/4 loop.

A track in the loop building view

Each track comes with a track control panel, located to the left of the track. The track control panel helps in controlling the track in the overall mix. You can use this panel to change the volume, pan, and existing effects of the track.

Standard toolbars and panels

The following toolbars and panels exist in all views of Orinj.

At the bottom of Orinj, you can see the CPU usage bar (the label "CPU: 0%"). During playback and recording, this bar shows you how strenuous playback and recording are on your computer.